The answer is, these people don't follow any logical line of thinking. They're a psychopathic cancer on society, which like any cancer, will even destroy itself in its neverending quest for more power.
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It seems like a narcissistic, psychopathic entity wouldn’t want to hurt itself but the cancer metaphor is apt and accurate. I’ll keep an open mind and check out this video
Here's a follow up when done with that one. I interviewed the filmmaker who made it too to talk about all of this, podcast dropping soon 👀
Sweet! Thank you