• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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      If we’re really made in their image, they’d love the pious. How many powerful people love brown nosers and yes-men? Answer: all of them

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        How many powerful people love brown nosers and yes-men?

        A small correction: they don’t “love” them. They love having them around as one would like having a squeeze-toy stress ball.

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      If we can apply logic, there must be an entire pantheon, considering the number of contradicting and conflicting impulses.