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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

He's not really known for being a bad leader, to be fair. Kind of the opposite. A bad leader wouldn't have been able to rally an entire country to commit genocide.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

So you mean "those with the least ability to lead". Yet Trump is still somehow running and he can't even wipe his own ass.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes he is. His military decision making was thankfully shit, his hatred of Jews caused a brain drain ahead of the war; nuclear research wasn’t prioritized because it was considered a “Jewish science”. Also his rearmament of Germany was completely unsustainable and would have collapsed the German economy if not for the onset of the war. Effective demagoguery =/= successful leadership.

If I set out to make a thousand year empire that only lasted 11 years would you consider that successful leadership?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He was great at leading them to lose. I am only defining leadership in the sense of "leading people." He was great at that. Just not at tactics or strategy or sane ideas.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Okay, so to be clear, your critera for "great" leadership doesn't include any sort of decision-making skills nor effective delegation when said leader is out of their depth?

If I worked at a company that had leaders making a long series of bad calls at a tactical and/or strategic level, for instance, I shouldn't call that "bad leadership"?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 0 points 8 months ago

You're overanalyzing a comment intended to be humorous, dude.