• Libb@piefed.social
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      10 hours ago

      My impression would be that they’re an idiot and overestimate their own intelligence. They also probably complain online that women won’t date them, and most likely voted Republican.

      Republican vote aside (the world does not end at the US borders, mind you, and most of us humans living on this planet your country is mercilessly wrecking havoc upon are not US citizens), I would quite agree.

      ‘Machiavellian’ is not something one will say about themselves, it’s something one will say about someone else. Oftentimes misusing it. Hence the importance of reading that (short) book written by Machiavelli, ‘The Prince’ in which he explains how to be, well, a prince in various types of princedoms. He also shows how ‘bad’ actions may be the right actions for that prince, but it’s far from being limited to that idea.