Fyraltari watches The Clone Wars (2008) for the first time

[Lord Raziere]

It's a little strange to think jabba took over by sycophanting his way to the top and then killing the leader, but now he sleeps in a room full of sycophants

No its not.

thats just the cycle of power and betrayal at work. good leaders don't surround themselves with people who just tell them what they want to hear in hopes of earning a position replacing them one day. in turn a former sycophant was probably always a bad leader who surrounded themselves with sycophantic underlings even before they got to the top even as they spew out sycophantic lies to their superior. they probably know what they're doing is the same thing their minion is doing to them, but each person in the chain is assuming they are the exception and will triumph over all the others, that due to their self-centered view they assume they're the one playing the game the best instead of the one above or below them. Its sith-like in that manner.