Comment on It insists upon itself
nesc@lemmy.cafe 4 days 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 4 days ago
Exactly. Machiavellian doesn’t mean galaxy brain.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 days 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 4 days ago
You gain and hold power by killing people you don’t like, look at any dictator that ever dictatored. 🙃
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 days 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 3 days ago
Yeah that would be caesarean or scipian or something stupid like that