In order to prevent your node from being attacked by malicious nodes, there is a desire to drop certain connections first - in this case, Tor connections are de-prioritized.
(Note: the [present] irrelevance of the [presently, non-] issue you reference renders the reference specious. [See the below.])
Hitler was the archetypal "charismatic leader". He was not a "normal" politician - someone who promises policies like lower taxes and better health care - but a quasi-religious leader who offered almost spiritual goals of redemption and salvation. He was driven forward by a sense of personal destiny he called "providence".
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[Epicurus] regarded the unacknowledged fear of death and punishment as the primary cause of anxiety among human beings, and anxiety in turn as the source of extreme and irrational desires.
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