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		cucumber3732842 45 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil ... Plenty of people stepped into power vacuums not to make themselves rich but to save their nation Napolean, Tito, Cincinnatus, arguably George Washington.

estearum 45 days ago [–]

Right but this is rare enough for "power vacuums" to generally be regarded as a bad thing and not a good thing.

If they frequently had great people step in, we'd just produce them artificially all the time.

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