#cruelty — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cruelty, aggregated by home.social.
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White House Website Briefly Hosted Racist Tetris Clone Game Until The Tetris People Complained
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White House Website Briefly Hosted Racist Tetris Clone Game Until The Tetris People Complained
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White House Website Briefly Hosted Racist Tetris Clone Game Until The Tetris People Complained
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White House Website Briefly Hosted Racist Tetris Clone Game Until The Tetris People Complained
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White House Website Briefly Hosted Racist Tetris Clone Game Until The Tetris People Complained
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The appeal of others' suffering
Study by Buckels, Jones & Paulhus (2013, Univ. of British Columbia): given the chance, high-sadism participants readily killed bugs — and even took on a boring extra task just for the chance to blast an innocent opponent with noise.
No purpose, no gain: the pleasure of harm itself was the motive.
Researchers proposed adding "sadism" as a fourth trait to form the "Dark Tetrad."
Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24022650/
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Cruelty and the Atlantic salmon farming industry
"Animal welfare claim launched against Tasmanian salmon industry by Animals Australia.If four million land animals — say cattle — died prematurely in this manner, there would be outrage. There would be regulatory intervention."
"Animals Australia is also asking Biosecurity Tasmania to investigate alleged animal welfare breaches in relation to seals, dolphins, seabirds and other wildlife injured in the process of salmon farming. Seals, dolphins and water birds are dying as a result of the operation of this industry. Seabirds are being entangled in salmon farm infrastructure, and seals and dolphins are being shot at with pellets, in order for the industry to deter them from these sea pens."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/animals-australia-calls-for-investigation-into-salmon-industry/107124116
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ICE Finalizes Stun Glove Purchase, Claims There’s No Other Way To Handle ‘Violent’ Migrants
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Administration Escalates Deportations To Haiti As Violent Gang Attacks Escalate In Haiti
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
They were a rough lot indeed, as sailors mostly are: being men rooted out of all the kindly parts of life, and condemned to toss together on the rough seas, with masters no less cruel.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Novel (1886), Kidnapped, ch. 7 “I Go to Sea in the Brig Covenant of Dysart”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cruelty #difficulties #sailors #hardlife
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Border Czar Tom Homan Says The Glove Tasering Will Continue Until Morale Improves
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Border Czar Tom Homan Says The Glove Tasering Will Continue Until Morale Improves
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Border Czar Tom Homan Says The Glove Tasering Will Continue Until Morale Improves
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Border Czar Tom Homan Says The Glove Tasering Will Continue Until Morale Improves
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Border Czar Tom Homan Says The Glove Tasering Will Continue Until Morale Improves
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One of the biggest hurdles in researching #history is being objective when it comes to #indigenous practices.
How does one reconcile the #cruelty of collecting kambo (frog toxin used for as a ritual drug) with the #traditional aspect of the practice?
Do I say neutrally: "Indigenous people of X collect Y to help with luck in hunting." and thereby omit the fact that this is a potentially questionable practice?
Or do I write: "Y is collected through inducing a forced stress response in Z, which is, by indigenous standards, necessary for facilitating practice A"
(FYI, I purposely used a tame subject).
Perhaps proper #historians have an answer to this?
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ICE Is Buying Stun Gloves For Officers Because They’re Just Not Injuring/Killing Enough Migrants
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#TRUMP WAS NEVER HIDING 💎
The first time I heard #DonaldTrump was running for president, I knew what he was.
Not because I am politically brilliant.
Not because #Tasmania has better intelligence services.
Because he was so obviously ignorant, #malicious and downright nasty.
The boasting.
The #cruelty.
The hunger for attention.
The constant need to dominate the room and #punish anyone who would not admire him.
I had seen that #kind of man before, both in politics and in spiritual communities around the world.
What I could not understand was why so many #Americans could not see it.
Then he won.
And years later, they chose him again.
This video helps explain something deeper.
People inside #MAGA were not necessarily asking:
“What kind of man is he?”
They were asking:
“Is he on our side?”
“Will he hurt the #people we resent?”
“Will he restore the #country we believe we have lost?”
“Will he make us feel #powerful again?”
Once loyalty becomes identity, character stops mattering.
Cruelty becomes #strength.
#Ignorance becomes authenticity.
Shamelessness becomes #courage.
Every warning becomes proof that the leader is threatening the right people.
#America did not fail to see Trump because he concealed himself.
Trump concealed almost nothing.
Many people saw him clearly and decided his ugliness might work on their behalf.
That is the part worth understanding.
This #video is valuable because it shows how painful it can be to leave once a political movement has become your #family, your meaning, your explanation and your identity.
People rarely leave an #illusion because they have been defeated or humiliated.
They leave when the #story stops holding together, and someone gives them enough dignity to admit it.
https://youtu.be/IWkfowGKv1U?si=n0TMty-zYPPFXIIH
#pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Spirituality #life #AI #journalism #Advertising #LeavingMAGA #Politics #CultDynamics
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[P] The interesting thing about all this is is that I think Reform winning so many seats has actually shattered my faith in the allistic majority possessing any goodness. I always had some glimmer of optimism but it isn't there anymore. I now only see tribal cruelty. I see primitive savagery. I see wilful ignorance and the choice to be as uneducated as possible. I see witless homunculi. I see greedy monsters.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #tribalism #cruelty #racism #politics #uk
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/28/man-who-heckled-shabana-mahmood-dismisses-white-liberal-claim-immigration. A man who came to the #UK as a child from #Malaysia makes a strange sort of "white liberal", doesn't he, @ChrisMayLA6? He is absolutely right to describe Shabana Mahmood's #asylum & #immigration #policies as #cruel - indeed, they are the very essence of #cruelty, & absolutely shameful.
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The Lovely War
Donald Trump threatens Iran the way he once threatened a recalcitrant steak: same wounded, flinty, infant-king fury. A working homage to Martin Amis -- on the Epstein flights, the six-billion-dollar goon squad, the taunting of a proud civilisation, and a nine-year-old girl in Minab waiting for the water that is her birthright. The infant-king has other plans. -
Inside The Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis
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"In 2026, there’s every reason to think the Trump show will get even crazier. With all that extra handshaking [that Karoline Leavitt claims causes the bruises on his right hand], there’s no telling what could happen."
~ Justin Glawe
#Trump #Venezuela #war #narcissism #cruelty #sociopathy #amorality
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"When a man with Trump’s personality feels caged in, when he feels besieged and abandoned and begins to lose control of events, he becomes more desperate and more dangerous."
#Trump #Venezuela #war #narcissism #cruelty #sociopathy #amorality
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"His narcissism; his lack of conscience, remorse, or empathy; his pathological lying and grandiosity; his sense of entitlement, impulsivity, and aggression; his cruelty, predatory behavior, and sadism—these are the forces that drive him. If we don’t understand that, we understand almost nothing of importance about him. And beware:"
#Trump #Venezuela #war #narcissism #cruelty #sociopathy #amorality
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In a statement entitled "Trump’s Inferno of Hate Is Intensifying," Peter Wehner warns,
"When a man with the president’s personality feels besieged and abandoned, he becomes more desperate and more dangerous. ...
Heraclitus taught that character is destiny. In Trump’s case, his sociopathy is destiny."
#Trump #Venezuela #war #narcissism #cruelty #sociopathy #amorality
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#Cruelty #ICE #trump #Immigration #Rulings #60Minutes #Judges #Facts #Fascism #alt
Heather Cox Richardson 11/3/25
TRUMP: ICE NOT GOING FAR ENOUGH -
"In the end there is no one else in their world, because when you are not willing to hear how others feel, what others need, when you do not care, you are not willing to acknowledge others’ existence. That’s how it’s lonely at the top. It is as if these petty tyrants live in a world without honest mirrors, without others, without gravity, and they are buffered from the consequences of their failures."
#Trump #dementia #narcissism #grandiosity #stupidity #cruelty #fascism
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"In 2017, I wrote of [Trump]: 'I have often run across men (and rarely, but not never, women) who have become so powerful in their lives that there is no one to tell them when they are cruel, wrong, foolish, absurd, repugnant."
~ Rebecca Solnit
#Trump #dementia #narcissism #grandiosity #stupidity #cruelty #fascism
/1https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/dumb-and-dumber-before-the-generals-and-admirals/
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As a fellow white man who, in contrast to Stewart and Maher, has never enjoyed all the perks and privileges heterosexuality affords, I can only say that I long since began turning a deaf ear to Stewart and Maher and men like them.
Privilege blinds. Unexamined privilege — and the colossal privilege afforded striaght white men is too seldom examined by said men — spectacularly blinds.
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As Doktor Zoom writes, "He sure seems reluctant to see that the problem isn’t that we’re 'polarized,' but that we’re under assault and maybe the problem isn’t that in the face of gathering fascism, some people are going overboard by burning some Teslas…."
I'm reading similar commentary about another icon of many US liberals, Bill "But Trump's So Charming and Nice" Maher.
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Wonkette's Doktor Zoom has good, zingy commentary on Jon Stewart's "who could have imagined" admission that his anodyne, misleading both-sideism about Biden-Trump and Democrats-Republicans didn't see what a lot of the rest of us saw coming: savagery, looming dictatorship, real horrors.
#JonStewart #Trump #dictatorship #cruelty #BothSideism
/1https://www.wonkette.com/p/jon-stewart-very-sorry-he-believed
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"I’m sure this has nothing to do with skin color. …
Puerto Ricans and Native Americans are getting swept up in the Trump administration’s performative immigration raids across the country."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #cruelty #race #racism #PuertoRicans #NativeAmericans #ICE
/5https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/doh-trumps-press-secretary-is-off
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#misogyny
#childishness
#immaturity
#narcissism
Deeply #insecure
#Racism
#cruelty
#sociopath
#Russian pawn
#Putin's batch
#amorale
#Cultism
#OligarchyWhy is anyone drawn to this disgusting maggot?
I grew up in Christian fundamentalism so I understand cults and brainwashing to some degree, but this lying manipulative pus bag, and people like him, have always pissed me off. I see them from a mile away. And yet I am baffled why anyone gets sucked in.
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#LizCheney said a “broad coalition” is forming to support #KamalaHarris. Appealing to people who might not see themselves as Democratic voters or even supporters of #Harris, #Cheney implores the crowd to “set aside #partisan battles to do what’s right for this country” & “reject the #depraved #cruelty of Donald #Trump.”
#Jan6 #insurrection #extremism #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Tyranny #Project2025
#ProsecutorVFelon
#law #WeAreNotGoingBack
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The #doublestandard is #laughable.
In former #President #DonaldTrump’s #RepublicanParty (and it is his party now) #childishness, #cruelty, and #pettiness #reign supreme, the primary focus long ago shifted from #policy to #adhominem attacks where and #women’s #accomplishments are relegated to #irrelevance.
https://kentuckylantern.com/2024/08/06/the-double-standard-is-laughable/
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Two former #Mississippi #deputies wept in court Wednesday as a federal judge sentenced them to years in prison and condemned their #cruelty for breaking into a home with four other white officers and #torturing two Black men.
U.S. District Judge Tom Lee sentenced Christian Dedmon, 29, to 40 years in prison and Daniel Opdyke, 28, to 17.5 years.
Lee said Dedmon carried out the most 🔸“shocking, brutal and cruel attacks imaginable” 🔸against the two Black men, Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker, and against a white man during a traffic stop weeks earlier.
Dedmon did not look at Jenkins and Parker as he apologized Wednesday, saying he’d never forgive himself for the pain he caused.
Jenkins, who has trouble speaking after being 💥shot in the mouth 💥during the January 2023 attack, said in a statement read by his lawyer that Dedmon’s actions were the most depraved of any of those who attacked himhttps://apnews.com/article/mississippi-goon-squad-sentencing-94d9dcfa00e582b9d50a6eb7288b058b
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Disabled benefit claimants recall 'cruel' DWP video assessments
https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/dwp-disabled-benefit-claimants-pip-video-assessment-cruel/#DWP
#Disabled
#WarOnThePoor
#WarOnDisabled
#Cruelty
#Tories
#CruelTories
#PIP
#PIPAssessments
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Alex Jones bankruptcy claim DENIED in landmark ruling; he must finally begin paying his victims. He spent $93K in July alone!
#talk #show #host #conspiracy #theorist #AlexJones #denied #banktuptcy #filing #judge #says #must #pay #restitution to #his #victims #finally #SandyHook #tragedy #became #profits for #alex #guilty of #deliberate #cruelty #intentional #harm https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/landmark-ruling-alex-jones-denied-bankruptcy-protection-ordered-to-pay-11-billion-to-sandy-hook-families/ar-AA1izW3n -
Happy 7th of #DecemBird!
It's telling how we subjugate the timid species rather than the aggressive ones. This might be an interesting tactic to try: pop in to a farm and dress all the birds up like eagles or vultures!
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We're posting every day this month on the theme of "DecemBird"; i.e. all things bird related (but mostly not chickens; that's for #eggpril).
#Bizarro #eagle #turkey #disguise #farm #cafo #cruelty #YourVeganFallacyIs #AnimalRights #SocialJustice #Vegan
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A Few Observations on Standing on Quicksand
A few thoughts on the drawing I made yesterday morning.
One amoral transactionalist or another in my drawing might try to accumulate sufficient goods — in this case, enough flooring: planks, paving stones, rebar, etc. — to shore up only his patch of quicksand.
As he watched his trading partner and his fellow man sink, he might realize that he has done himself out of the trade that sustained and defined him.
He might also find that he needs the other guy after all, as it’s very hard to lay planks across one area of quicksand without building up another. (The best design would go to the very margins of the whole patch of quicksand, and anchor the floor in terra firma.) He has won only as much land as his transactions to date have secured for him. Once his trading partner sinks, he has made his last acquisition.
Even if their trade observes some rules, it will be short-lived unless they recognize that the patch of quicksand they’re standing on needs shoring up and maintenance. When the pair recognize that they share common ground, and a common future, they have a much better chance of keeping themselves from sinking.
With that recognition, they have already crossed over from amoral transactionalism into some sense of common life or mutual standing. They can start working together, or start coordinating their efforts: they might decide to tax their trade so that they can direct some of the goods toward building a shared foundation.
Do the pair locked in territorial rivalry have any future? One might prevail over the other, raid his stores of goods and make plans to occupy the entire territory. He could even enslave him or coerce him to build a stable platform over the quicksand patch.
It’s a future from which both parties should recoil in horror. At the very least they might understand that, all things being equal and luck being what it is, committing to this course means that one of them will end up dead or suffering under the lash.
And the best the winner of such a contest can hope for is the master’s fate: he will never be truly respected nor have standing as a person (which can only be granted by another person; but he has deprived his rival of that standing). He will have lost even that bitter sense of “we” that he knew in the days of territorial rivalry. Now he can only make the vanquished party hand over his goods, do his bidding, cower in fear or howl in pain.
#amoralTransactionalism #asking #ClimateChange #coDeliberation #collaboration #commonFuture #commonLife #cruelty #deliberation #ethics #globalWarming #master #moralCommunity #mutualRespect #mutualStanding #quicksand #respect #territorialRivalry #thePowerOfAsking #transactionalism
