r/AskReddit • u/DrCompenomics • 12h ago

Who’s the best real-life example of “you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain,” and what happened?

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u/blue_magi 9h ago

Kinda started long before that. Once he started milking 9/11 every chance he got, the writing was on the wall. The urge to grift was always there.

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u/MSully94 7h ago

Even the "America's Mayor" thing runs VERY thin when you realize how poorly he actually RAN the city post 9/11. He pushed to have ground zero declared safe, despite MANY agencies claiming it not, and a lot of first responders, and frankly just people who worked in the vicinity got cancer and died following it.