#badpeople — Public Fediverse posts

Every day I hate Manado more and more. Almost everyone here has bad characters and manners.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #manado #hate #ihate #badpeople #evilpeople #bad #evil #desperate #imdesperate #iamdesperate #manadocity #kotamanado #northsulawesi #sulawesiutara #indonesia #ugh #fuck #sad #imsad #iamsad #devastated #imdevastated #iamdevastated

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Novel (1886), Kidnapped, ch. 14 “The Islet”

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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Novel (1886), Kidnapped, ch. 14 “The Islet”

More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #kidnapped #badpeople #consequences #evil #folly #fool #karma #wickedness

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Novel (1886), Kidnapped, ch. 14 “The Islet”

More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #kidnapped #badpeople #consequences #evil #folly #fool #karma #wickedness

Philosophy expert shares the ‘simple but profound rule’ to tell if someone is a good or bad person

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/philosophy-expert-shares-simple-but-profound-rule-to-tell-if-someone-is-a-good-or-bad-ex1/

Philosophy expert shares the ‘simple but profound rule’ to tell if someone is a good or bad person

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/philosophy-expert-shares-simple-but-profound-rule-to-tell-if-someone-is-a-good-or-bad-ex1/

Philosophy expert shares the ‘simple but profound rule’ to tell if someone is a good or bad person

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/philosophy-expert-shares-simple-but-profound-rule-to-tell-if-someone-is-a-good-or-bad-ex1/

This guy explains Indiana's New Anti Homeless Law / Pubic Camping Ban

Video & Discussion on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/fortwayne/s/U5EAsF7UhY

#Indiana #Law #Homeless #AntiHomless #PublicCamping #Ban #Vagrants #Disabled #Discrimination #Poor #Criminalize #Jail #Fine #BadPeople

This guy explains Indiana's New Anti Homeless Law / Pubic Camping Ban

Video & Discussion on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/fortwayne/s/U5EAsF7UhY

#Indiana #Law #Homeless #AntiHomless #PublicCamping #Ban #Vagrants #Disabled #Discrimination #Poor #Criminalize #Jail #Fine #BadPeople

A quotation from Euripides

                    It is not worth living,
when we see bad men unjustly honored.
 
[ου γαρ άξιον λεύσσειν φάος κακούς ορώντας εκδίκως τιμωμένους.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Bellerophon [Βελλεροφῶν], frag. 293 (c. 430 BC) [tr. Collard (1997)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/65197/

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A quotation from Euripides

                    It is not worth living,
when we see bad men unjustly honored.
 
[ου γαρ άξιον λεύσσειν φάος κακούς ορώντας εκδίκως τιμωμένους.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Bellerophon [Βελλεροφῶν], frag. 293 (c. 430 BC) [tr. Collard (1997)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/65197/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #bellerophon #badpeople #evil #honors #injustice #life #success #wicked #worthwhile

A quotation from Euripides

                    It is not worth living,
when we see bad men unjustly honored.
 
[ου γαρ άξιον λεύσσειν φάος κακούς ορώντας εκδίκως τιμωμένους.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Bellerophon [Βελλεροφῶν], frag. 293 (c. 430 BC) [tr. Collard (1997)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/65197/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #bellerophon #badpeople #evil #honors #injustice #life #success #wicked #worthwhile

A quotation from Euripides

                    It is not worth living,
when we see bad men unjustly honored.
 
[ου γαρ άξιον λεύσσειν φάος κακούς ορώντας εκδίκως τιμωμένους.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Bellerophon [Βελλεροφῶν], frag. 293 (c. 430 BC) [tr. Collard (1997)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/65197/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #bellerophon #badpeople #evil #honors #injustice #life #success #wicked #worthwhile

Kenapa aku harus tinggal di kota buruk seperti ini? Orang-orang di sini kebanyakan buruk, mencari yang baik atau pintar sulit.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #sad #bad #itssad #itsbad #manado #manadocity #kotamanado #why #sigh #ugh #idontlikeit #ihateit #ihateitsomuch #ihateitsobad #badpeople #evilpeople #stupidpeople #indonesia

"Bari Weiss’ much-hyped CBS News town hall with Erika Kirk was a massive ratings flop":
https://www.inkl.com/glance/news/bari-weiss-much-hyped-cbs-news-town-hall-with-erika-kirk-was-a-massive-ratings-flop?first_login=true&section=personalized
#BadRatings 4 #BadPeople on #BadNetwork.
#television #extremism #politics

"Bari Weiss’ much-hyped CBS News town hall with Erika Kirk was a massive ratings flop":
https://www.inkl.com/glance/news/bari-weiss-much-hyped-cbs-news-town-hall-with-erika-kirk-was-a-massive-ratings-flop?first_login=true&section=personalized
#BadRatings 4 #BadPeople on #BadNetwork.
#television #extremism #politics

"Bari Weiss’ much-hyped CBS News town hall with Erika Kirk was a massive ratings flop":
https://www.inkl.com/glance/news/bari-weiss-much-hyped-cbs-news-town-hall-with-erika-kirk-was-a-massive-ratings-flop?first_login=true&section=personalized
#BadRatings 4 #BadPeople on #BadNetwork.
#television #extremism #politics

Wealthy California town makes playing pickleball a crime

The Carmel City Council voted to permanently ban pickleball at Forest H…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #america #attendee #badpeople #ban #California #councilmember #Crime #decision #foresthillpark #GavinNewsom #greatway #Group #immigrationprotests #LAimmigrationprotests #LAprotests #losangeles #NationalGuard #neighbor #noisecomplaint #pickleball #side #Sport #TerryMoran #unitedstatesofamerica #USnews #USAnews
https://www.europesays.com/2610048/

I just found out that “Down's Syndrome AI Filters" are a thing. WTAF?! A friend and I were complaining about supposed “Down’s" animals (patently stupid idea), and he remembered hearing about this. #AIBullshit #socialmedia #badpeople https://youtube.com/shorts/Z0nckCdMizg?si=sQ9P7M-9-GOYkG__

I just found out that “Down's Syndrome AI Filters" are a thing. WTAF?! A friend and I were complaining about supposed “Down’s" animals (patently stupid idea), and he remembered hearing about this. #AIBullshit #socialmedia #badpeople https://youtube.com/shorts/Z0nckCdMizg?si=sQ9P7M-9-GOYkG__

I just found out that “Down's Syndrome AI Filters" are a thing. WTAF?! A friend and I were complaining about supposed “Down’s" animals (patently stupid idea), and he remembered hearing about this. #AIBullshit #socialmedia #badpeople https://youtube.com/shorts/Z0nckCdMizg?si=sQ9P7M-9-GOYkG__

I just found out that “Down's Syndrome AI Filters" are a thing. WTAF?! A friend and I were complaining about supposed “Down’s" animals (patently stupid idea), and he remembered hearing about this. #AIBullshit #socialmedia #badpeople https://youtube.com/shorts/Z0nckCdMizg?si=sQ9P7M-9-GOYkG__

A quotation from Wendell Berry

However, I do belong in the fullest sense of the word to a large group that is having a vast and ever-increasing effect on the world. It is known as the human race. I am aware that as a member of that group I am in the worst possible company: communists, fascists and totalitarians of all sorts, militarists and tyrants, exploiters, vandals, gluttons, ignoramuses, murderers, thieves, and liars, men for whose birth the creation is worse off and for whose lives other men will still be suffering a hundred years from now. The price of admission to this group is great, and until death not fully known. The cost of getting out is extreme. I find, therefore, no reasonable alternative to membership. But since I am a member on such exacting terms, I will not allow my involvement with this group to remain accidental, but will give my whole allegiance to it and work for its betterment.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky

More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/79516/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #badpeople #evil #helping #humannature #humanrace #humanity #life #loveyourneighbor #progress

A quotation from Wendell Berry

However, I do belong in the fullest sense of the word to a large group that is having a vast and ever-increasing effect on the world. It is known as the human race. I am aware that as a member of that group I am in the worst possible company: communists, fascists and totalitarians of all sorts, militarists and tyrants, exploiters, vandals, gluttons, ignoramuses, murderers, thieves, and liars, men for whose birth the creation is worse off and for whose lives other men will still be suffering a hundred years from now. The price of admission to this group is great, and until death not fully known. The cost of getting out is extreme. I find, therefore, no reasonable alternative to membership. But since I am a member on such exacting terms, I will not allow my involvement with this group to remain accidental, but will give my whole allegiance to it and work for its betterment.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky

More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/79516/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #badpeople #evil #helping #humannature #humanrace #humanity #life #loveyourneighbor #progress

A quotation from Wendell Berry

However, I do belong in the fullest sense of the word to a large group that is having a vast and ever-increasing effect on the world. It is known as the human race. I am aware that as a member of that group I am in the worst possible company: communists, fascists and totalitarians of all sorts, militarists and tyrants, exploiters, vandals, gluttons, ignoramuses, murderers, thieves, and liars, men for whose birth the creation is worse off and for whose lives other men will still be suffering a hundred years from now. The price of admission to this group is great, and until death not fully known. The cost of getting out is extreme. I find, therefore, no reasonable alternative to membership. But since I am a member on such exacting terms, I will not allow my involvement with this group to remain accidental, but will give my whole allegiance to it and work for its betterment.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky

More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/79516/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #badpeople #evil #helping #humannature #humanrace #humanity #life #loveyourneighbor #progress

Andrewism: *Can Anarchy Protect Us From Bad People?*

"One of the most common questions asked of anarchists is how anarchy intends to deal with the “bad people" in a world without authority. In this video, we'll explore some answers!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Btb1sGRK0

#Anarchism #crime #justice #transformativeJustice #legal #illegal #philosophy #BadPeople #Authoritarianism

Andrewism: *Can Anarchy Protect Us From Bad People?*

"One of the most common questions asked of anarchists is how anarchy intends to deal with the “bad people" in a world without authority. In this video, we'll explore some answers!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Btb1sGRK0

#Anarchism #crime #justice #transformativeJustice #legal #illegal #philosophy #BadPeople #Authoritarianism

Andrewism: *Can Anarchy Protect Us From Bad People?*

"One of the most common questions asked of anarchists is how anarchy intends to deal with the “bad people" in a world without authority. In this video, we'll explore some answers!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Btb1sGRK0

#Anarchism #crime #justice #transformativeJustice #legal #illegal #philosophy #BadPeople #Authoritarianism

Andrewism: *Can Anarchy Protect Us From Bad People?*

"One of the most common questions asked of anarchists is how anarchy intends to deal with the “bad people" in a world without authority. In this video, we'll explore some answers!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Btb1sGRK0

#Anarchism #crime #justice #transformativeJustice #legal #illegal #philosophy #BadPeople #Authoritarianism

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Treat bad men exactly as if they were insane. They are in-sane, out of health, morally. Reason, which is food to sound minds, is not tolerated, still less assimilated, unless administered with the greatest caution; perhaps, not at all. Avoid collision with them, so far as you honorably can; keep your temper, if you can, — for one angry man is as good as another; restrain them from violence, promptly, completely, and with the least possible injury, just as in the case of maniacs, — and when you have got rid of them, or got them tied hand and foot so that they can do no mischief, sit down and contemplate them charitably, remembering that nine tenths of their perversity comes from outside influences, drunken ancestors, abuse in childhood, bad company, from which you have happily been preserved, and for some of which you, as a member of society, may be fractionally responsible.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1860-08), “The Professor’s Story [Elsie Venner],” ch. 16 [The Professor], Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 34

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #anger #badpeople #crime #criminals #evil #immorality #insanity #irrationality #motivation #naturevsnurture #responsibility #rootcause #society #unreasoning

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Treat bad men exactly as if they were insane. They are in-sane, out of health, morally. Reason, which is food to sound minds, is not tolerated, still less assimilated, unless administered with the greatest caution; perhaps, not at all. Avoid collision with them, so far as you honorably can; keep your temper, if you can, — for one angry man is as good as another; restrain them from violence, promptly, completely, and with the least possible injury, just as in the case of maniacs, — and when you have got rid of them, or got them tied hand and foot so that they can do no mischief, sit down and contemplate them charitably, remembering that nine tenths of their perversity comes from outside influences, drunken ancestors, abuse in childhood, bad company, from which you have happily been preserved, and for some of which you, as a member of society, may be fractionally responsible.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1860-08), “The Professor’s Story [Elsie Venner],” ch. 16 [The Professor], Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 34

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #anger #badpeople #crime #criminals #evil #immorality #insanity #irrationality #motivation #naturevsnurture #responsibility #rootcause #society #unreasoning

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Treat bad men exactly as if they were insane. They are in-sane, out of health, morally. Reason, which is food to sound minds, is not tolerated, still less assimilated, unless administered with the greatest caution; perhaps, not at all. Avoid collision with them, so far as you honorably can; keep your temper, if you can, — for one angry man is as good as another; restrain them from violence, promptly, completely, and with the least possible injury, just as in the case of maniacs, — and when you have got rid of them, or got them tied hand and foot so that they can do no mischief, sit down and contemplate them charitably, remembering that nine tenths of their perversity comes from outside influences, drunken ancestors, abuse in childhood, bad company, from which you have happily been preserved, and for some of which you, as a member of society, may be fractionally responsible.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1860-08), “The Professor’s Story [Elsie Venner],” ch. 16 [The Professor], Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 34

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #anger #badpeople #crime #criminals #evil #immorality #insanity #irrationality #motivation #naturevsnurture #responsibility #rootcause #society #unreasoning

This article "Bad People" by @rechelon is very good.

It explains the facts that some people, and not a few, like to live in command and control pyramidal structures. That not everyone is altruistic. That there is bad people,

"those for whom other people are not an extension of their own existence as sites of agency, but objects to be crushed or used."

So realization #1, again and again proved in history, old and current:

"A core anarchist realization is that we cannot guard against bad people by creating institutions of power because the same bad people will inevitably seize and wield those institutions. "

I won't quote it all, but then it goes to police and "simplistic order" structures, how they attract bad people and defend pyramidal hierarchies - often with bad people on top.
It describes the fact that these bad people see decentralisation of communications and large scale coordination and altruistic weapons like boycots (where you accept to lose personnaly for a better future for the community) as existential risks to them.

Also how the bad people are themselves very bad at organic coordination (too much selfishness) and rely on pyramidal power structures.
And thus, they always drift towards the state and its institutions.

And that's just half the article. It is really very good.

OK, so I think I get all that. I even get that in an hypothetical world without any pyramidal power structures, you can manage to avoid their awaking with strong and definitive retaliation when some start to appear - even if I don't get how it's done in the whole world, or if only on your communities, how you manage imperialism from others.
But I still don't get how we can go from where we are to that world, even with bottom-up thingy.

And I don't understand either how we can know most people don't want to be part of pyramidal structures.

EDIT: using William Gillis handle

#anarchism #badPeople #state

This article "Bad People" by @rechelon is very good.

It explains the facts that some people, and not a few, like to live in command and control pyramidal structures. That not everyone is altruistic. That there is bad people,

"those for whom other people are not an extension of their own existence as sites of agency, but objects to be crushed or used."

So realization #1, again and again proved in history, old and current:

"A core anarchist realization is that we cannot guard against bad people by creating institutions of power because the same bad people will inevitably seize and wield those institutions. "

I won't quote it all, but then it goes to police and "simplistic order" structures, how they attract bad people and defend pyramidal hierarchies - often with bad people on top.
It describes the fact that these bad people see decentralisation of communications and large scale coordination and altruistic weapons like boycots (where you accept to lose personnaly for a better future for the community) as existential risks to them.

Also how the bad people are themselves very bad at organic coordination (too much selfishness) and rely on pyramidal power structures.
And thus, they always drift towards the state and its institutions.

And that's just half the article. It is really very good.

OK, so I think I get all that. I even get that in an hypothetical world without any pyramidal power structures, you can manage to avoid their awaking with strong and definitive retaliation when some start to appear - even if I don't get how it's done in the whole world, or if only on your communities, how you manage imperialism from others.
But I still don't get how we can go from where we are to that world, even with bottom-up thingy.

And I don't understand either how we can know most people don't want to be part of pyramidal structures.

EDIT: using William Gillis handle

#anarchism #badPeople #state

This article "Bad People" by @rechelon is very good.

It explains the facts that some people, and not a few, like to live in command and control pyramidal structures. That not everyone is altruistic. That there is bad people,

"those for whom other people are not an extension of their own existence as sites of agency, but objects to be crushed or used."

So realization #1, again and again proved in history, old and current:

"A core anarchist realization is that we cannot guard against bad people by creating institutions of power because the same bad people will inevitably seize and wield those institutions. "

I won't quote it all, but then it goes to police and "simplistic order" structures, how they attract bad people and defend pyramidal hierarchies - often with bad people on top.
It describes the fact that these bad people see decentralisation of communications and large scale coordination and altruistic weapons like boycots (where you accept to lose personnaly for a better future for the community) as existential risks to them.

Also how the bad people are themselves very bad at organic coordination (too much selfishness) and rely on pyramidal power structures.
And thus, they always drift towards the state and its institutions.

And that's just half the article. It is really very good.

OK, so I think I get all that. I even get that in an hypothetical world without any pyramidal power structures, you can manage to avoid their awaking with strong and definitive retaliation when some start to appear - even if I don't get how it's done in the whole world, or if only on your communities, how you manage imperialism from others.
But I still don't get how we can go from where we are to that world, even with bottom-up thingy.

And I don't understand either how we can know most people don't want to be part of pyramidal structures.

EDIT: using William Gillis handle

#anarchism #badPeople #state

This article "Bad People" by @rechelon is very good.

It explains the facts that some people, and not a few, like to live in command and control pyramidal structures. That not everyone is altruistic. That there is bad people,

"those for whom other people are not an extension of their own existence as sites of agency, but objects to be crushed or used."

So realization #1, again and again proved in history, old and current:

"A core anarchist realization is that we cannot guard against bad people by creating institutions of power because the same bad people will inevitably seize and wield those institutions. "

I won't quote it all, but then it goes to police and "simplistic order" structures, how they attract bad people and defend pyramidal hierarchies - often with bad people on top.
It describes the fact that these bad people see decentralisation of communications and large scale coordination and altruistic weapons like boycots (where you accept to lose personnaly for a better future for the community) as existential risks to them.

Also how the bad people are themselves very bad at organic coordination (too much selfishness) and rely on pyramidal power structures.
And thus, they always drift towards the state and its institutions.

And that's just half the article. It is really very good.

OK, so I think I get all that. I even get that in an hypothetical world without any pyramidal power structures, you can manage to avoid their awaking with strong and definitive retaliation when some start to appear - even if I don't get how it's done in the whole world, or if only on your communities, how you manage imperialism from others.
But I still don't get how we can go from where we are to that world, even with bottom-up thingy.

And I don't understand either how we can know most people don't want to be part of pyramidal structures.

EDIT: using William Gillis handle

#anarchism #badPeople #state

5yrs ago, photos app reminds me, we were at Point Lobos park, California.
These three assholes off-trail, trampling sensitive plant life and potentially disturbing birds and seals.

THE SIGNS APPLY TO EVERYONE
Iirc I shouted at them, but I haven't always felt able to do so. I hate this entitlement, disregard for wild spaces you're privileged to be in, ignorance, harm. Grow tf up. People are the worst.

#california #findYourPark #stateParks #humans #BadPeople #caughtInTheAct #stayOnTrails

5yrs ago, photos app reminds me, we were at Point Lobos park, California.
These three assholes off-trail, trampling sensitive plant life and potentially disturbing birds and seals.

THE SIGNS APPLY TO EVERYONE
Iirc I shouted at them, but I haven't always felt able to do so. I hate this entitlement, disregard for wild spaces you're privileged to be in, ignorance, harm. Grow tf up. People are the worst.

#california #findYourPark #stateParks #humans #BadPeople #caughtInTheAct #stayOnTrails

5yrs ago, photos app reminds me, we were at Point Lobos park, California.
These three assholes off-trail, trampling sensitive plant life and potentially disturbing birds and seals.

THE SIGNS APPLY TO EVERYONE
Iirc I shouted at them, but I haven't always felt able to do so. I hate this entitlement, disregard for wild spaces you're privileged to be in, ignorance, harm. Grow tf up. People are the worst.

#california #findYourPark #stateParks #humans #BadPeople #caughtInTheAct #stayOnTrails

A quotation from Thomas Fuller

Better be alone, than in bad Company.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 81 (1725)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…

#quote #quotes #quotation #alone #association #badcompany #badpeople #companions #loneliness #solitude

A quotation from Zinn

   An optimist isn’t necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy whistler in the dark of our time. To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
   And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

Howard Zinn (1922-2010) American historian, academic, author, social activist
Essay (2004-09-02), “The Optimism of Uncertainty,” The Nation

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/zinn-howard/35668/

#quote #quotes #quotation #action #badpeople #endeavor #future #goodandevil #goodpeople #history #hope #humancondition #humanrights #humanity #inaction #inspiration #meme #optimism #pessimism #present #struggle #success #utopia #victory

A quotation from Zinn

   An optimist isn’t necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy whistler in the dark of our time. To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
   And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

Howard Zinn (1922-2010) American historian, academic, author, social activist
Essay (2004-09-02), “The Optimism of Uncertainty,” The Nation

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/zinn-howard/35668/

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A quotation from Zinn

   An optimist isn’t necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy whistler in the dark of our time. To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
   And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

Howard Zinn (1922-2010) American historian, academic, author, social activist
Essay (2004-09-02), “The Optimism of Uncertainty,” The Nation

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/zinn-howard/35668/

#quote #quotes #quotation #action #badpeople #endeavor #future #goodandevil #goodpeople #history #hope #humancondition #humanrights #humanity #inaction #inspiration #meme #optimism #pessimism #present #struggle #success #utopia #victory

A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort

Weak men are the light troops in the army of the wicked. They do more harm than the main force; they overrun and and ravage the country.
 
[Les gens faibles sont les troupes légères de l’armée des méchans. Ils font plus de mal que l’armée même; ils infestent et ils ravagent.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 2, ¶ 133 (1795) [tr. Mathers (1926)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/753…

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@BenRossTransit
They were inadvertently designed using the sigils of a spell "reveal sociopath" and this continues to work once it is bound into the earth.

#magic #bollux #badpeople

Elon Musk’s AI, Grok, has turned against him, criticizing his labor practices and environmental impact. While Grok has yet to condemn Musk’s recent Nazi salute, it has sparked widespread discussion and debate online.

https://boingboing.net/2025/01/28/elon-musks-own-ai-turns-on-him.html

#ai #musk #badPeople

A quotation from Moliere:

«
ALCESTE: Some men I hate for being rogues; the others
I hate because they treat the rogues like brothers,
And, lacking a virtuous scorn for what is vile,
Receive the villain with a complaisant smile.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/moliere/73249/

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A quotation from Moliere:

«
ALCESTE: Some men I hate for being rogues; the others
I hate because they treat the rogues like brothers,
And, lacking a virtuous scorn for what is vile,
Receive the villain with a complaisant smile.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/moliere/73249/

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@neko I still enjoy some of Bing Crosby’s work, even though he beat the shit out of his wife. Every person in this world is capable of doing bad things. Even Louis C.K., I still find very funny. Even though we all know, he’s done some terrible things too. I just happen to enjoy him less and less now. #art #philosophy #peoplewhodobadthings instead of #badpeople

@neko I still enjoy some of Bing Crosby’s work, even though he beat the shit out of his wife. Every person in this world is capable of doing bad things. Even Louis C.K., I still find very funny. Even though we all know, he’s done some terrible things too. I just happen to enjoy him less and less now. #art #philosophy #peoplewhodobadthings instead of #badpeople

A quotation from Billings, Josh:

«
He whom the good praize and wicked hate ought tew be satisfied with hiz reputashun.
 
[He whom the good praise and the wicked hate ought to be satisfied with his reputation.]
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/billings-josh/72989/

#quote #quotes #quotation #badpeople #disparagement #goodandevil #goodpeople #hatred #praise #reputation #vice #virtue

A quotation from Billings, Josh:

«
He whom the good praize and wicked hate ought tew be satisfied with hiz reputashun.
 
[He whom the good praise and the wicked hate ought to be satisfied with his reputation.]
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/billings-josh/72989/

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The Son of Jair Bolsonaro
UK Fool Nigel Farage
Billionnaire Teenager Elon Musk
Putin's mini-me Tucker Carlson

All at Mar-a-Lago

If only there was a sink hole generator…. so many problems may be helped in the world.

#BadPeople

The Son of Jair Bolsonaro
UK Fool Nigel Farage
Billionnaire Teenager Elon Musk
Putin's mini-me Tucker Carlson

All at Mar-a-Lago

If only there was a sink hole generator…. so many problems may be helped in the world.

#BadPeople

The Son of Jair Bolsonaro
UK Fool Nigel Farage
Billionnaire Teenager Elon Musk
Putin's mini-me Tucker Carlson

All at Mar-a-Lago

If only there was a sink hole generator…. so many problems may be helped in the world.

#BadPeople

The Son of Jair Bolsonaro
UK Fool Nigel Farage
Billionnaire Teenager Elon Musk
Putin's mini-me Tucker Carlson

All at Mar-a-Lago

If only there was a sink hole generator…. so many problems may be helped in the world.

#BadPeople

A quotation from Herbert, George:

«
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/herbert-george/70902/

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A quotation from Herbert, George:

«
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/herbert-george/70902/

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@uspolitics and it is just the tip of the iceberg with regard to her lies and deceptions while in office…..and probably during her entire life.
#maga #badpeople

@uspolitics and it is just the tip of the iceberg with regard to her lies and deceptions while in office…..and probably during her entire life.
#maga #badpeople