These people believe in nothing. They offer nothing. They detest that other people have these "virtues", more than smirking deceitful nonsense. Vengeful destruction of the world, letting their fakeness take over and ruin meaning: that's the revenge. Lovely recent short 2 min video, Ruminations on that DHS penguin tweet is succinct & to the point, on the weird suicidal Werner Hertzog penguin meme that has been making rounds, and how these memes so embrace anti-meaning.
https://youtu.be/c7WqVx9x89s
akomtu 13 hours ago [-]
The AI of Sauron.
But seriously, when most people see that their head of state has no moral standards whatsoever, they'll follow and drop their own standard even lower. It would be a similar situation if a bishop was openly a drunkard or if an army sergeant was a lazy drug addict.
netsharc 12 hours ago [-]
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said this in 1928:
> Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.
Timothy McVeigh used the beginning of this quote as a statement before his conviction, FWIW.. https://archive.is/xineB
gullies 13 hours ago [-]
AI of Sauron LMFAO
iszomer 12 hours ago [-]
You can also not take offense to it either and ignore the "slopaganda". The fact that it triggered you shows that it's "working".
QuadmasterXLII 12 hours ago [-]
Did you notice any evidence of triggering in the person you are replying to's post? I didn't, but perhaps you are some kind of triggering-detection savant beyond my understanding
iszomer 10 hours ago [-]
> ..when most people see that their head of state has no moral standards whatsoever,
I’m not a trigger-detecting savant. I just don’t share your or GP’s assumptions about “most people”. There isn’t a single standard -- people here don’t all think alike.
grey-area 13 hours ago [-]
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These people believe in nothing. They offer nothing. They detest that other people have these "virtues", more than smirking deceitful nonsense. Vengeful destruction of the world, letting their fakeness take over and ruin meaning: that's the revenge. Lovely recent short 2 min video, Ruminations on that DHS penguin tweet is succinct & to the point, on the weird suicidal Werner Hertzog penguin meme that has been making rounds, and how these memes so embrace anti-meaning. https://youtu.be/c7WqVx9x89s
But seriously, when most people see that their head of state has no moral standards whatsoever, they'll follow and drop their own standard even lower. It would be a similar situation if a bishop was openly a drunkard or if an army sergeant was a lazy drug addict.
> Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.
https://law.jrank.org/pages/11566/Opinion-U-S-Supreme-Court-...
Timothy McVeigh used the beginning of this quote as a statement before his conviction, FWIW.. https://archive.is/xineB
I’m not a trigger-detecting savant. I just don’t share your or GP’s assumptions about “most people”. There isn’t a single standard -- people here don’t all think alike.