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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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 youtube.com/shorts/Z0nckCdMizg

  4. 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

  5. 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!"

    youtube.com/watch?v=o8Btb1sGRK0

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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #acquiescence #goingalong #badpeople #complaisance #compliant #enabler #enablement #evil #evildoers #irresolution #wavering #weak #wicked

  12. @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

  13. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    Say to yourself first thing in the morning: I shall meet with people who are meddling, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, and unsociable. They are subject to these faults because of their ignorance of what is good and bad.
     
    [ἕωθεν προλέγειν ἑαυτῷ· συντεύξομαι περιέργῳ, ἀχαρίστῳ, ὑβριστῇ, δολερῷ, βασκάνῳ, ἀκοινωνήτῳ· πάντα ταῦτα συμβέβηκεν ἐκείνοις παρὰ τὴν ἄγνοιαν τῶν ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 2, ch. 1 (2.1) [tr. Gill (2013)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7455…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #badbehavior #badpeople #evil #good #goodandevil #ignorance #vice #marcusaurelius

  14. 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.

    boingboing.net/2025/01/28/elon

    #ai #musk #badPeople

  15. 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:
    wist.info/moliere/73249/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #acceptance #badpeople #complaisance #evil #evildoers #hatred #humanity #leniency #misanthropy #tolerance #vice #virtue #wicked

  16. @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

  17. 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:
    wist.info/billings-josh/72989/

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

  18. Navigating Long Covid and Writing a Victim Impact Statement

    At Mac's Opinion, we’ve traded our daily posts for some Avengers-style drama, juggling victim impact statements and Long Covid symptoms. Think of it as life’s chaotic sitcom, complete with dizzy spells and unnecessary gossip. Join us as we navigate the wild ride of personal tales, sympathy card dramas, and unexpected surprises! #LongCovid #COVID #Neighbours #BadPeople #VictimImpact #VictimServices

    macsopinion.com/long-covid-and

  19. 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

  20. @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

  21. 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.]
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/euripides/65197/

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

  22. CW: The #LongTailPlot of #BadPeople & #TheirBadKarma 👀👀

    When #BadPeople complain about #karma and say 'wHy aRe yOu ThReAtEnInG mE?!' 😳 ☜ (↼_↼)

    #FunFact : I didn't threaten them.

    ╰( ・ ᗜ ・ )➝ This speaks a #LoT about the #BadKarma that #BadPeople have in their lives.

    Doesn't it?

    Psst. What an interesting response from the people who _know_ why they have #badkarma and are just being aggressive about their own issues.

  23. A quotation from Martial:

    «
    You lead such matching, equal lives —
    the worst of husband, worst of wives —
    that it’s a mystery to me
    why you aren’t suited perfectly.

    [Cum sitis similes paresque vita,
    Uxor pessima, pessimus maritus,
    Miror, non bene convenire vobis.]
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/martial/62270/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #badpeople #couple #husband #marriage #spouse #wife

  24. Marcus Aurelius gives us several solid guidelines for dealing with people who deliberately do the wrong things. Here's a Sadler's Lectures podcast episode examining those in detail!

    soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/
    #Podcast #Philosophy #Stoicism #Marcus #Aurelius #Ethics #BadPeople #Life

  25. I've been trying to understand TPM and all the baroque machinations necessary to securely boot a computer from an encrypted disk, and it made me think about how much time and effort we expend solely to protect ourselves from Bad People.

    Whole layers of complexity in software could be done away with, whole industries would become superfluous, if we could just trust each other.

    I know that's just the way things are, but it seems such a waste.

  26. The last chapter of book 9 of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations contain a number of useful reflections about people doing wrong, and our own expectations. These can help us head off anger at people who do genuinely bad things

    youtu.be/sDHQFjZ9WDY
    #Stoicism #Video #Aurelius #Anger #Philosophy #Wrongdoing #BadPeople #Trust

  27. theguardian.com/media/2023/feb

    Into each life a little rain must fall....

    I pray, daily, for a typhoon in Rupert Murdoch's. Certainly he's in my Worldwide Top Ten of #BadPeople.

  28. The strongest saints and the strongest skeptics alike took positive evil as the starting-point of their argument.
    --G K Chesterton

    Source: Orthodoxy (1909) #Science #Religion #FreeWill #Evil #BadPeople #Saints #Saint #Skeptic #Thoughts #Quotes

  29. If you consulted your business experience instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter.

    Source: Orthodoxy (1909) #History #Truth #Liar #Rotter #BadPeople #Oligarchy #ElonMusk #Capitalism #Business #Quotes

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