Comment on It insists upon itself
nesc@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks ago
That’s what machiavellian distills into - cold pragmatism and disregard of morality. So his turn from okay guy that wanted his family to stop with illegal shit into someone much worse than his father was portrays it perfectly.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Exactly. Machiavellian doesn’t mean galaxy brain.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Unscrupulous is only one of the definitions.
Cunning and scheming are the other two. The Prince detailed how to gain and hold power.
It wasn’t a book that said immediately shoot everyone to solve all your problems.
nesc@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks ago
You gain and hold power by killing people you don’t like, look at any dictator that ever dictatored. 🙃
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Again, yes you kill people. You don’t just kill everyone immediately without a plan. Even Pol Pot had a plan.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah that would be caesarean or scipian or something stupid like that