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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by heavenlyblue on Saturday July 18, 2020 @01:27PM (#23882990)
I think this amount of money should imply certain existential risk: if you have that power then you are inherently liable.

It’s like Putin - you could call him a democratic asshole, but you would never call him incompetent in politics - because if he was, he wouldn’t be alive by now.

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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by perl4ever on Monday July 20, 2020 @12:33AM (#23894680)
>you could call him a democratic asshole

Is this an idiom wherewith I'm unfamiliar?

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