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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Power. It's all about power. Those who have it never give it up voluntarily.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah that is the only explanation but it's just an obsession at that point... Keeping power to the literal death sounds like mental illness to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's a very human trait, unfortunately. That's why democratic control over any sort of power is the only way to improve society.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is the only logical explanation. Which makes them exactly the kind of people you don't want to have in power.