Nice people are unwilling to do the things necessary to stop assholes. Nice people won't berate them, most won't call them out, etc etc.
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2025
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Nice people will also turn on those of us who do call them out. Standing up to popular bully is the fastest way to get people to turn on you.
Popularity is what people care about. As long as violence is against unpopular people, it's great.
The assholes bought everything up, including the law and politicians. They rigged the game so no one else can climb the same ladder they did. But, also, death throes look like this. They positioned themselves so that the entire populous of the earth can't sustain life, unless they don't. That imbalance is about to be corrected. It's gunna get a little bit worse before it gets better though, hang on.
It's the fear or apathy of the asshole to retaliate. I could be on a bus, and there could be an asshole playing music without headphones. Saying something could come with verbal abuse at the least and could end in a physical altercation with or without weapons at worst. As the annoyed passerby, is confronting the asshole worth the effort and risk for quiet?
I love calling people out when I can, but you gotta pick your battles.
assholes have certain qualities that make them better suited leaders and capitalists and artists or whatever else normal people don't do
No. We live in a society that favors good people for the most part and it's getting better, just not for the US and it's toadies.
And all the bad people from the good countries move to the US so that they can beg the US to invade their own nation in order to become toadie leader #53.
What's happening right now is that this US hegemonic system is falling apart.