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Old 12-06-2016, 10:14 AM   #21
jason taylor
 
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Default Re: [Basic] Reputations for bad people

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Originally Posted by Ghostdancer View Post
That could work. "He may be a bully, but he's OUR bully!"
That only works if you have some reason to be allied with him.

Suppose you are a Jew in Russia in 1942. You have no reason to love Stalin. Perhaps you have relations that just escaped the Purge. Perhaps you yourself were just hauled out of the Gulag and plopped atop a Red Army command. But you are willing to play ball, not because you love Stalin but because you dislike the possibility of Hitler winning worse.
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