Also, knowing who to shoot and when to kill them is kind of a big deal.
The man who shot Don Vito thought he was untouchable because he was going to the meeting with a police captain.
It insists upon itself
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Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 days ago
mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
The Machiavellian part was the fact he removed his rivals simultaneously without them gaining prior warning.
He was cunning like a fox to avoid detection and dangerous like lion when action was required.
HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Historically speaking, it tends to work.
And for the record, Machiavelli didn’t exactly rule it out.
niraj21@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Historically speaking, it tends to work.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Watch Gomorrah if you want to see real power games
scaryjelly@lemm.ee 3 days ago
I saw this movie at a press screening back then. I had to go to the bathroom from the very beginning, but I couldn’t because it was so damn thrilling. My bladder still hurts today when I think about it.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
oh wow didnt know it was film, Ive only seen the series
PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I prefer Goncharov, personally
Randelung@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Omg, I forgot about Goncharov! Such a good movie.
zoidsberg@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They made a movie about the New Vegas casino?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Movie or series?
tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
both apparently, though I’ve only seen the series
DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Since this comment section turned into an arena discussing how to rule, here’s an interesting relevant CGP Grey video title The Rules for Rulers.
DogWater@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I too thought of this video
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Keep it simple, stupid.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 days ago
The funny thing is that Machiavelli didn’t achieve shit apart from write a treatise bitching about the people in charge of where he lived.
Eheran@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Huh? Was it?
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What does that even mean?
don@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Anon once heard someone’s opinions about a movie character, decided it must be so. Having a mind locked up tighter’n Fort Knox if it were located deep inside Area 51, he was badly disappointed when the character didn’t match the wild expectations he set for himself.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The expectations were set by someone else. For me, the memes hyped the hell out of Khan and one day I decided to watch the trek movies. Yeah, Khan did not live up to the hype. I had seen much more interesting scifi villains and space battles by then.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 days ago
…with a gun, I think. He shoots them with the bullets a gun fires.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It insists upon itself, Lois. It insists upon itself.
HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 3 days ago
It insists upon itself It mean it’s trying to be deep, but is really just pretentious and shallow.
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 3 days ago
Exactly. Machiavellian doesn’t mean galaxy brain.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 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.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah that would be caesarean or scipian or something stupid like that