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    F1 Boss?

    How do complete cocks like Bernie Ecclestone get to be successful?

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news...ectid=10582675

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    Jaysus.....I'm just shakin' my head after reading that...where do you even start.......?

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    Super successful people seemingly HAVE to be a cock of some fashion or other.

    You can see why he worked so well with the son of Britain's greatest pre-war fascist after a comment like that.
    If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?



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    Thing is, you have to get through the reflexive hand-wringing that any mention of Hitler gets...

    He's right. Hitler got things done. Most people might object to what the did, but he certainly got it done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by =cJ= View Post
    Thing is, you have to get through the reflexive hand-wringing that any mention of Hitler gets...
    It's a reflex worth sponsorship.

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    Yes, but there's the risk that by recoiling in horror, we don't look and learn from the mistakes of history.

    Just going "OhMyGod it's so terrible" doesn't count as learning btw...

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    Quote Originally Posted by =cJ= View Post
    Thing is, you have to get through the reflexive hand-wringing that any mention of Hitler gets...

    He's right. Hitler got things done. Most people might object to what the did, but he certainly got it done.
    The only people reflexively hand-wringing are the Germans and the Brits. The majority of the world's population probably fits into the, "Hitler? Who?" camp.
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    In one way he is, of course, right. Things do get done when you have a totalitarian regime. The question is whether it's the right things that get done and if the fact that things get done is worth the price of diminished civil liberties.

    A dictatorship would work just fine, if you could find the perfect person - benign, compassionate, intelligent, assertive, etc but completely devoid of desire for personal gain. Doesn't sound like any person I've ever met or heard off - but maybe if we ever develop proper AI...
    It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikkel View Post

    A dictatorship would work just fine, if you could find the perfect person - benign, compassionate, intelligent, assertive, etc but completely devoid of desire for personal gain. Doesn't sound like any person I've ever met or heard off - but maybe if we ever develop proper AI...
    There's been one in modern times. Mohandas Ghandi. Sadly, those attributes were very obviously not a genetic gift.
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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    There's been one in modern times. Mohandas Ghandi. Sadly, those attributes were very obviously not a genetic gift.
    He got shit done without being a dictator too...

    Ghandi's ideal was as far removed from a totalitarian regime as it is possible to imagine.
    It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)

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    A dictatorship is the second most effective form of government. Provided the dictator is smart, and not too wacky, it can work very well. Unfortunately, most tend to be corrupted by the power, or have personality disorders to start with.
    ... and that's what I think.

    Or summat.


    Or maybe not...

    Dunno really....


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    He just stated the obvious really, irrespective of the very unpalatable things Hitler did. He was ( in a perverse sort of way ) right about Saddam Hussein too, the only guy that could keep that basket case of a country together.
    Bernie is old enough and wealthy enough that he can take the rebound. The same for Max Mosley, 70 years old and wealthy enough to employ a few hookers in nazi regalia. Lucky man, and he has worked for it!
    Personally I dont Bernie is a cock for one moment. Hes a very successful man whose machine employs a LOT of people. I applaud him for that and I also applaud him for being totally un PC.
    Id be interested in his views on Slobodan Milosevic, there are schools of thought that he was actually doing the world a favour in eradicating moslems.

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    The nigger is just telling it like it is

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert Taylor View Post
    Personally I dont Bernie is a cock for one moment.
    Depends on one's perspective.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Indiana_Jones View Post
    The nigger is just telling it like it is
    He is, yeah.

    You have to realise there is a very specific and rare personality type at work here though. Genuine sociopaths. Very very smart people who honestly feel not one drop of compassion towards the rest of the species. We are just there to be played with, manipulated, and used towards aims as dispassionately as one might enjoy squirting crap off the house with a pressure jet.

    These people are, unsurprisingly, often very successful. Bernie Ecclestone owns the most expensive sport in the world. Owns it, the actual sport itself. Fuck me. Hitler took a country that had the been having the living shit kicked out of it for twenty years and persuaded it's inhabitants that they should take the world by force. They nearly did too. They are the same personality type and they tend to achieve greatness or almost literally die trying (and piss a whole bunch of people off in the process).

    I've met one, and maybe now a second who I've not decided about yet. They're out there and they scare the crap out of me.

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