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Feeley believed the most famous line from Thucydides’s account of that war – “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must” – explained Trump’s bully-boy worldview.
“[He’s doing it] because he can – because the asymmetry of American commercial and military power is so incalculable in relationship to Mexico, Central America, Panama, even Brazil, Argentina. They can’t really do much other than suffer the consequences. And so I think, in a sort of mafioso way, he is very adept at reading relative power,” said the former diplomat, who attributed his 2018 resignation to how Trump had “warped and betrayed … the traditional core values of the United States”.

So he’s not Thucydides, he’s the kind of politicians that Thucydides was describing…

“He’s a velociraptor … He kills anything he perceives as a threat.”

We know nothing about velociraptor hunting / social / behavioural habits. Maybe they were friendly and social and trusting which enabled them to hunt in packs?

I’m sorry but everything this guy says just smells like bullshit.

If you use as your psychological paradigm [for Trump] a combination of Tony Soprano and Thucydides

Thucydides has been dubbed the father of “scientific history” by those who accept his claims to have applied strict standards of impartiality and evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect, without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.

How is Donald Trump anything like the guy whose biggest contribution to the field of history was to be the first to rigorously outline and (arguably) apply the standard of “make sure you gather evidence before making a historical claim”.

Even leaving aside that Tony Soprano is not the right mobster for comparison (and it’s been too long since I’ve seen the show to propose another with confidence), the other half of the asserted psychological profile for Trump makes absolutely no sense.

This is the former ambassador to Panama? Yikes.

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Here’s some light reading to get you started if you’re serious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukhannath

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgynos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faʻafafine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_(South_Asia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Māhū

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00438240500404375

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15532739.2016.1250239

https://web.archive.org/web/20150513044527/http://nativeout.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Two-Spirits-Nadleeh-and-Navajo-LGBTQ2-Gaze.pdf

http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/symposium.html

https://search.worldcat.org/title/20091288

https://www.jta.org/jewniverse/2015/the-6-genders-of-the-talmud

I medically cannot take HRT because it would kill me.

Many trans people cannot take HRT because of its inherent medical risks.

The type of misinformation/exaggeration that you are calling out is known as transmedicalism. It’s toxic and should be called out as such. It presents hormones as the One True Way to be trans. It implies that the other ways of being trans are not valid, even if they have existed for as long as humans have.

We should pursue, uplift, and recover old cultural methods of being trans. It’s more inclusive, and avoids the often-downplayed medical and health impacts of HRT. We have forgotten these older methods because transphobic industrial/abrahamic societies erased them from our cultural memory. Now drugs are filling the void, but it would be healthier if we recovered these old methods as alternatives to drugs. Drugs aren’t for everyone and shouldn’t be treated as the default.