#cruelty — Public Fediverse posts
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There is also this: when we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not only renounce personal advantage but are also rid of personal responsibility. There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer (1902–1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 77 (3.14.77) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/36599/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #truebeliever #cruelty #freedom #group #hatred #ideology #individual #irresponsibility #judgment #license #mob #movement #personalresponsibility #regret #remorse #responsibility #ruthlessness #selfimage #shame #shamelessness #remorse #guilt
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There is also this: when we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not only renounce personal advantage but are also rid of personal responsibility. There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer (1902–1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 77 (3.14.77) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/36599/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #truebeliever #cruelty #freedom #group #hatred #ideology #individual #irresponsibility #judgment #license #mob #movement #personalresponsibility #regret #remorse #responsibility #ruthlessness #selfimage #shame #shamelessness #remorse #guilt
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/sep/16/mice-part-human-brains-research. These #researchers will doubtless argue that the #ends #justify the means, when they NEVER do so. Nothing can justify the #animal #cruelty entailed here, nor the arrogant #assumption that #humans have the "right" to do as they wish with non-human #animals or any other part of #nature. They DON'T, & it is that #hubris that has led us to the #crisis - or rather, the #polycrises - we're in.
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/sep/16/mice-part-human-brains-research. These #researchers will doubtless argue that the #ends #justify the means, when they NEVER do so. Nothing can justify the #animal #cruelty entailed here, nor the arrogant #assumption that #humans have the "right" to do as they wish with non-human #animals or any other part of #nature. They DON'T, & it is that #hubris that has led us to the #crisis - or rather, the #polycrises - we're in.
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/sep/16/mice-part-human-brains-research. These #researchers will doubtless argue that the #ends #justify the means, when they NEVER do so. Nothing can justify the #animal #cruelty entailed here, nor the arrogant #assumption that #humans have the "right" to do as they wish with non-human #animals or any other part of #nature. They DON'T, & it is that #hubris that has led us to the #crisis - or rather, the #polycrises - we're in.
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/sep/16/mice-part-human-brains-research. These #researchers will doubtless argue that the #ends #justify the means, when they NEVER do so. Nothing can justify the #animal #cruelty entailed here, nor the arrogant #assumption that #humans have the "right" to do as they wish with non-human #animals or any other part of #nature. They DON'T, & it is that #hubris that has led us to the #crisis - or rather, the #polycrises - we're in.
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/sep/16/mice-part-human-brains-research. These #researchers will doubtless argue that the #ends #justify the means, when they NEVER do so. Nothing can justify the #animal #cruelty entailed here, nor the arrogant #assumption that #humans have the "right" to do as they wish with non-human #animals or any other part of #nature. They DON'T, & it is that #hubris that has led us to the #crisis - or rather, the #polycrises - we're in.
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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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Sasha Abramsky says the shocking truth we have to learn with the Abrego Garcia case is that America is now one vast Milgram experiment:
"In Trump’s fascist netherworld, there are a shockingly large number of Good Americans, people who seem incapable of rejecting unjust orders or understanding the moral implications of acquiescence in organized cruelty."
#Trump #AbregoGarcia #immigrants #deportations #authoritarianism #cruelty #MilgramExperiment
/5https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/america-milgram-experiment/
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Sasha Abramsky says the shocking truth we have to learn with the Abrego Garcia case is that America is now one vast Milgram experiment:
"In Trump’s fascist netherworld, there are a shockingly large number of Good Americans, people who seem incapable of rejecting unjust orders or understanding the moral implications of acquiescence in organized cruelty."
#Trump #AbregoGarcia #immigrants #deportations #authoritarianism #cruelty #MilgramExperiment
/5https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/america-milgram-experiment/
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Sasha Abramsky says the shocking truth we have to learn with the Abrego Garcia case is that America is now one vast Milgram experiment:
"In Trump’s fascist netherworld, there are a shockingly large number of Good Americans, people who seem incapable of rejecting unjust orders or understanding the moral implications of acquiescence in organized cruelty."
#Trump #AbregoGarcia #immigrants #deportations #authoritarianism #cruelty #MilgramExperiment
/5https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/america-milgram-experiment/
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Sasha Abramsky says the shocking truth we have to learn with the Abrego Garcia case is that America is now one vast Milgram experiment:
"In Trump’s fascist netherworld, there are a shockingly large number of Good Americans, people who seem incapable of rejecting unjust orders or understanding the moral implications of acquiescence in organized cruelty."
#Trump #AbregoGarcia #immigrants #deportations #authoritarianism #cruelty #MilgramExperiment
/5https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/america-milgram-experiment/
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Sasha Abramsky says the shocking truth we have to learn with the Abrego Garcia case is that America is now one vast Milgram experiment:
"In Trump’s fascist netherworld, there are a shockingly large number of Good Americans, people who seem incapable of rejecting unjust orders or understanding the moral implications of acquiescence in organized cruelty."
#Trump #AbregoGarcia #immigrants #deportations #authoritarianism #cruelty #MilgramExperiment
/5https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/america-milgram-experiment/
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We will only learn the hard way, it seems, when things fall apart and we ourselves are hurt by the cruelty we have freely, gladly chosen for others — many of us, choosing it, even as we brandish our bibles and our crosses and trot off to church to sing and pray.
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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We will only learn the hard way, it seems, when things fall apart and we ourselves are hurt by the cruelty we have freely, gladly chosen for others — many of us, choosing it, even as we brandish our bibles and our crosses and trot off to church to sing and pray.
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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We will only learn the hard way, it seems, when things fall apart and we ourselves are hurt by the cruelty we have freely, gladly chosen for others — many of us, choosing it, even as we brandish our bibles and our crosses and trot off to church to sing and pray.
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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We will only learn the hard way, it seems, when things fall apart and we ourselves are hurt by the cruelty we have freely, gladly chosen for others — many of us, choosing it, even as we brandish our bibles and our crosses and trot off to church to sing and pray.
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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When a cunning dictator-to-be harnesses that lust to attain power and inflames that lust in a large sector the population, the consequences are always beyond brutal — including for the very people who applauded him, voted him into office, told him he was doing a splendid job as he hurt their "enemies."
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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When a cunning dictator-to-be harnesses that lust to attain power and inflames that lust in a large sector the population, the consequences are always beyond brutal — including for the very people who applauded him, voted him into office, told him he was doing a splendid job as he hurt their "enemies."
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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When a cunning dictator-to-be harnesses that lust to attain power and inflames that lust in a large sector the population, the consequences are always beyond brutal — including for the very people who applauded him, voted him into office, told him he was doing a splendid job as he hurt their "enemies."
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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When a cunning dictator-to-be harnesses that lust to attain power and inflames that lust in a large sector the population, the consequences are always beyond brutal — including for the very people who applauded him, voted him into office, told him he was doing a splendid job as he hurt their "enemies."
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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This is America! he was told. Germans may have acted that way. We don't, not in America.
His experiment has been replicated over the years in different periods of time and different cultural-social circumstances. Each time, the results are the same.
There is a deep lust inside us to demean, attack, harm, erase targeted others.
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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This is America! he was told. Germans may have acted that way. We don't, not in America.
His experiment has been replicated over the years in different periods of time and different cultural-social circumstances. Each time, the results are the same.
There is a deep lust inside us to demean, attack, harm, erase targeted others.
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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This is America! he was told. Germans may have acted that way. We don't, not in America.
His experiment has been replicated over the years in different periods of time and different cultural-social circumstances. Each time, the results are the same.
There is a deep lust inside us to demean, attack, harm, erase targeted others.
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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This is America! he was told. Germans may have acted that way. We don't, not in America.
His experiment has been replicated over the years in different periods of time and different cultural-social circumstances. Each time, the results are the same.
There is a deep lust inside us to demean, attack, harm, erase targeted others.
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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As I watch, I think of what the Milgram experiment proved about us over 60 decades ago.
A majority of us will, told by an authority figure to harm someone else, willingly comply with the order. Even (or especially?) when we witness the pain we're inflicting….
Milgram was brutally attacked for publicizing the results of his experiments.
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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As I watch, I think of what the Milgram experiment proved about us over 60 decades ago.
A majority of us will, told by an authority figure to harm someone else, willingly comply with the order. Even (or especially?) when we witness the pain we're inflicting….
Milgram was brutally attacked for publicizing the results of his experiments.
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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As I watch, I think of what the Milgram experiment proved about us over 60 decades ago.
A majority of us will, told by an authority figure to harm someone else, willingly comply with the order. Even (or especially?) when we witness the pain we're inflicting….
Milgram was brutally attacked for publicizing the results of his experiments.
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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As I watch, I think of what the Milgram experiment proved about us over 60 decades ago.
A majority of us will, told by an authority figure to harm someone else, willingly comply with the order. Even (or especially?) when we witness the pain we're inflicting….
Milgram was brutally attacked for publicizing the results of his experiments.
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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As I watch, I think of what the Milgram experiment proved about us over 60 decades ago.
A majority of us will, told by an authority figure to harm someone else, willingly comply with the order. Even (or especially?) when we witness the pain we're inflicting….
Milgram was brutally attacked for publicizing the results of his experiments.
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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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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#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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#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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#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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#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.