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Author: onepoorguy   😊 😞
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Subject: loyal losers
Date: 05/31/26 2:04 PM
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A somewhat inflammatory headline. Authoritarians rely on "loyal losers" to attain and maintain power.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/world/americas/...

New research, drawing on an extraordinary data set from Argentina’s Dirty War in the 1970s and ’80s, suggests a very different explanation. It turns out that the kinds of career pressures familiar to employees everywhere — the desire to revive a stalled career or obtain a minor promotion — can be enough to incentivize lower- and midlevel officials to violate professional obligations, fundamental norms and even basic morality. The people who make those decisions, the research suggests, are neither extremists nor victims. They are often just middling workers looking for a way to get ahead.
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Author: Steve203 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: loyal losers
Date: 05/31/26 2:30 PM
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They are often just middling workers looking for a way to get ahead.

And those unfettered by any sense of morals or fair play, are the ones that become "JCs", precisely due to the fact they are morally bankrupt.

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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: loyal losers
Date: 05/31/26 3:14 PM
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New research, drawing on an extraordinary data set from Argentina’s Dirty War in the 1970s and ’80s, suggests a very different explanation. It turns out that the kinds of career pressures familiar to employees everywhere — the desire to revive a stalled career or obtain a minor promotion — can be enough to incentivize lower- and midlevel officials to violate professional obligations, fundamental norms and even basic morality. The people who make those decisions, the research suggests, are neither extremists nor victims. They are often just middling workers looking for a way to get ahead.

That's illuminating. Explains the behavior of the Deep State pretty well: after their gravy train was threatened, they decided that subverting the Constitution was the direct pathway. The sad part is that they've convinced a lot of citizens that there's some kind of "4th branch of government" already in existence and that formalizing is actually a good idea.
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