I mean, forget evil. That's putting it too mildly. They have a hard time looking at their government with a critical eye at all. They cannot be objective. All that needs to be done is to have a bad guy in the mix. Someone like Putin, Saddam Hussein, or Bin Laden. They turn into fools that suddenly are incapable of rational thought. Any criticism of the actions of their government is defending the enemy. Now, if you can get the Red/Blue thing going you can get them to be critical there but that's also a clown show. Its really quite interesting to observe. It works on the right and the left too. Trump has been able to move the red team on Ukraine but it only shows the mind control. I don't think most people that want to end support for the war in Ukraine actually understand how many decisions were made that led up to where we are today. Decisions that could have been handled differently. Maybe we would still end up where we are. Its impossible to know, but you can't even have the conversation because... its all "Russian propaganda". You know... history. Things foreign policy experts said in the 90s and 2000s. Things they predicted would lead to where we are. I guess they all just work for Putin.

Its quite fascinating to me. Its frankly depressing.

I think it's easy to read without seeing much agency there. They're almost reduced to tools.

It's important to emphasize that the noble civil servants were the ones directly carrying out these millions of murders. That's definitely the point Elon's trying to emphasize: A large group of government employees is how you get the largest scale atrocities we've ever seen.