[ExI] Effects of Money on personality

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 12:06 AM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> The current troubles in Gaza, you may recall, came out of a government
> that was voted into power. That's not to say Israel doesn't perform
> their part of the escalation dance... but Hamas was elected.
>

At first.  They then consolidated their hold on power, preventing anyone
else from running, similar to (but more brutally than) the Nazis.

But yes.  Similar to Trump, they were seen as less bad than the alternative
- even though a government that actively oppresses its people and augurs
for war as a means of staying in power is, in fact, predictably worse than
a merely corrupt but somewhat just and not-warmongering government.
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