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      After I came forward about being assaulted, Someone accused Linus of inappropriate conduct on twitter.

      He came over to my corner and started BERATING HER. Calling her insane, mentally ill, an attention seeker, and just digging into this poor woman who had felt wronged by him.

      Linus sounds pretty consciously malicious to me…

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      “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.”

      —Lord Acton, Letter to Bishop Creighton (1887)

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        But guys, Linus swears there’s no need for a union. He’ll just wield the power responsibly and with care, unlike all those other people.

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        This is not my thesis but someone else’s but as a counterpoint to this platitude, look at the difference between Lincoln versus Nixon. Both were leaders at pivotal times but they took very different ethical directions. Sometimes character and background DOES matter and we SHOULD expect more of our leaders. Just assuming they will all be corrupt makes up disengage from the process.