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👇Is this not the #despot's "up your's"🖕 to ASEAN's quiet & (too) patient #diplomacy? What next for their people?🤔👇
#Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing #criticises #ASEAN, sets out government agenda
"Min Aung Hlaing on July 31 criticised the regional ASEAN grouping’s peace plan and outlined his government’s plans.. Dismissing ASEAN’s #peace #plan – known as the “Five Point Consensus”.. “I will take two years to build momentum for constructing a new nation,” Min Aung Hlaing said"🤦♂️
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmars-min-aung-hlaing-criticises-asean-sets-out-government-agenda -
👇Is this not the #despot's "up your's"🖕 to ASEAN's quiet & (too) patient #diplomacy? What next for their people?🤔👇
#Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing #criticises #ASEAN, sets out government agenda
"Min Aung Hlaing on July 31 criticised the regional ASEAN grouping’s peace plan and outlined his government’s plans.. Dismissing ASEAN’s #peace #plan – known as the “Five Point Consensus”.. “I will take two years to build momentum for constructing a new nation,” Min Aung Hlaing said"🤦♂️
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmars-min-aung-hlaing-criticises-asean-sets-out-government-agenda -
👇Is this not the #despot's "up your's"🖕 to ASEAN's quiet & (too) patient #diplomacy? What next for their people?🤔👇
#Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing #criticises #ASEAN, sets out government agenda
"Min Aung Hlaing on July 31 criticised the regional ASEAN grouping’s peace plan and outlined his government’s plans.. Dismissing ASEAN’s #peace #plan – known as the “Five Point Consensus”.. “I will take two years to build momentum for constructing a new nation,” Min Aung Hlaing said"🤦♂️
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmars-min-aung-hlaing-criticises-asean-sets-out-government-agenda -
👇Is this not the #despot's "up your's"🖕 to ASEAN's quiet & (too) patient #diplomacy? What next for their people?🤔👇
#Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing #criticises #ASEAN, sets out government agenda
"Min Aung Hlaing on July 31 criticised the regional ASEAN grouping’s peace plan and outlined his government’s plans.. Dismissing ASEAN’s #peace #plan – known as the “Five Point Consensus”.. “I will take two years to build momentum for constructing a new nation,” Min Aung Hlaing said"🤦♂️
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmars-min-aung-hlaing-criticises-asean-sets-out-government-agenda -
A quotation from Thomas Jefferson
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Document (1776-07-02), “Declaration of Independence”More about this quote: wist.info/jefferson-thomas/220…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasjefferson #absolutepower #custom #despot #despotism #endurance #government #inertia #overthrow #putupwith #rebellion #revolution #suffering #tyranny #declarationofindependence
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A quotation from Thomas Jefferson
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Document (1776-07-02), “Declaration of Independence”More about this quote: wist.info/jefferson-thomas/220…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasjefferson #absolutepower #custom #despot #despotism #endurance #government #inertia #overthrow #putupwith #rebellion #revolution #suffering #tyranny #declarationofindependence
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A quotation from Thomas Jefferson
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Document (1776-07-02), “Declaration of Independence”More about this quote: wist.info/jefferson-thomas/220…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasjefferson #absolutepower #custom #despot #despotism #endurance #government #inertia #overthrow #putupwith #rebellion #revolution #suffering #tyranny #declarationofindependence
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A quotation from Thomas Jefferson
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Document (1776-07-02), “Declaration of Independence”More about this quote: wist.info/jefferson-thomas/220…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasjefferson #absolutepower #custom #despot #despotism #endurance #government #inertia #overthrow #putupwith #rebellion #revolution #suffering #tyranny #declarationofindependence
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A quotation from Thomas Jefferson
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Document (1776-07-02), “Declaration of Independence”More about this quote: wist.info/jefferson-thomas/220…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasjefferson #absolutepower #custom #despot #despotism #endurance #government #inertia #overthrow #putupwith #rebellion #revolution #suffering #tyranny #declarationofindependence
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Hull Rupture - Management Strategy Roguelite Tower Defense - Konfa Games - Despot - Livestream 2026-05-11_21-03-58
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Hull Rupture - Management Strategy Roguelite Tower Defense - Konfa Games - Despot - Livestream 2026-05-11_21-03-58
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Hull Rupture - Management Strategy Roguelite Tower Defense - Konfa Games - Despot - Livestream 2026-05-11_21-03-58
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Hull Rupture - Management Strategy Roguelite Tower Defense - Konfa Games - Despot - Livestream 2026-05-11_21-03-58
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Hull Rupture - Management Strategy Roguelite Tower Defense - Konfa Games - Despot - Livestream 2026-05-11_21-03-58
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Hull Rupture - Management Strategy Roguelite Tower Defense - Konfa Games - Despot - Livestream 2026-05-11_21-03-58
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Hull Rupture - Management Strategy Roguelite Tower Defense - Konfa Games - Despot - Livestream 2026-05-11_21-03-58
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Hull Rupture - Management Strategy Roguelite Tower Defense - Konfa Games - Despot - Livestream 2026-05-11_21-03-58
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/4358660/Hull_Rupture/ If the ship stops, humanity ends. Manage a spaceship, treat puny humans as resources, and repel relentless alien assaults in a base-manageme…
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Hull Rupture - Management Strategy Roguelite Tower Defense - Konfa Games - Despot - Livestream 2026-05-11_21-03-58
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"...Der Sohn des früheren iranischen Schahs, Reza Pahlavi, hat die Bundesregierung dafür kritisiert, dass sie nicht mit ihm sprechen möchte. ..."
Tja, der Papa hätte halt seine Schläger nicht auf deutsche Bürger loslassen sollen!
Und wie es heisst: Der Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm!
Für das iranische Volk sollte es was Besseres geben als wieder ein Schah!#deutschland #iran #demokratie #irankrieg #schah #pahlevi #savak #despot #politik #naherosten #persien #mullahs
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"...Der Sohn des früheren iranischen Schahs, Reza Pahlavi, hat die Bundesregierung dafür kritisiert, dass sie nicht mit ihm sprechen möchte. ..."
Tja, der Papa hätte halt seine Schläger nicht auf deutsche Bürger loslassen sollen!
Und wie es heisst: Der Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm!
Für das iranische Volk sollte es was Besseres geben als wieder ein Schah!#deutschland #iran #demokratie #irankrieg #schah #pahlevi #savak #despot #politik #naherosten #persien #mullahs
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"...Der Sohn des früheren iranischen Schahs, Reza Pahlavi, hat die Bundesregierung dafür kritisiert, dass sie nicht mit ihm sprechen möchte. ..."
Tja, der Papa hätte halt seine Schläger nicht auf deutsche Bürger loslassen sollen!
Und wie es heisst: Der Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm!
Für das iranische Volk sollte es was Besseres geben als wieder ein Schah!#deutschland #iran #demokratie #irankrieg #schah #pahlevi #savak #despot #politik #naherosten #persien #mullahs
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"...Der Sohn des früheren iranischen Schahs, Reza Pahlavi, hat die Bundesregierung dafür kritisiert, dass sie nicht mit ihm sprechen möchte. ..."
Tja, der Papa hätte halt seine Schläger nicht auf deutsche Bürger loslassen sollen!
Und wie es heisst: Der Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm!
Für das iranische Volk sollte es was Besseres geben als wieder ein Schah!#deutschland #iran #demokratie #irankrieg #schah #pahlevi #savak #despot #politik #naherosten #persien #mullahs
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Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.
[Óderint, dum métuant.]Accius (170-c. 86 BC) Roman tragic poet, literary scholar [Lucius Accius, Lucius Attius]
Atreus (fragment 168) [tr. Kline (2010)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/lucius-accius/20033/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #accius #cicero #seneca #suetonius #caligula #compliance #danger #despot #fear #hatred #leadership #lifeanddeath #threat #tyrant #terrorism #coersion #obedience #compulsion #power
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Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.
[Óderint, dum métuant.]Accius (170-c. 86 BC) Roman tragic poet, literary scholar [Lucius Accius, Lucius Attius]
Atreus (fragment 168) [tr. Kline (2010)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/lucius-accius/20033/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #accius #cicero #seneca #suetonius #caligula #compliance #danger #despot #fear #hatred #leadership #lifeanddeath #threat #tyrant #terrorism #coersion #obedience #compulsion #power
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Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.
[Óderint, dum métuant.]Accius (170-c. 86 BC) Roman tragic poet, literary scholar [Lucius Accius, Lucius Attius]
Atreus (fragment 168) [tr. Kline (2010)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/lucius-accius/20033/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #accius #cicero #seneca #suetonius #caligula #compliance #danger #despot #fear #hatred #leadership #lifeanddeath #threat #tyrant #terrorism #coersion #obedience #compulsion #power
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Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.
[Óderint, dum métuant.]Accius (170-c. 86 BC) Roman tragic poet, literary scholar [Lucius Accius, Lucius Attius]
Atreus (fragment 168) [tr. Kline (2010)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/lucius-accius/20033/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #accius #cicero #seneca #suetonius #caligula #compliance #danger #despot #fear #hatred #leadership #lifeanddeath #threat #tyrant #terrorism #coersion #obedience #compulsion #power
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“[T]here’s a special meaning when leaders put themselves on money. It’s been the case, going back to the ancients, that monarchs and despots use this method to ensure their subjects understand they hold complete power and control the money supply. For this very reason, America has had a long-held norm of not featuring living presidents on the currency — until now.
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/29/trump-is-taking-charge-of-his-own-memorials/
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“[T]here’s a special meaning when leaders put themselves on money. It’s been the case, going back to the ancients, that monarchs and despots use this method to ensure their subjects understand they hold complete power and control the money supply. For this very reason, America has had a long-held norm of not featuring living presidents on the currency — until now.
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/29/trump-is-taking-charge-of-his-own-memorials/
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“[T]here’s a special meaning when leaders put themselves on money. It’s been the case, going back to the ancients, that monarchs and despots use this method to ensure their subjects understand they hold complete power and control the money supply. For this very reason, America has had a long-held norm of not featuring living presidents on the currency — until now.
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/29/trump-is-taking-charge-of-his-own-memorials/
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“[T]here’s a special meaning when leaders put themselves on money. It’s been the case, going back to the ancients, that monarchs and despots use this method to ensure their subjects understand they hold complete power and control the money supply. For this very reason, America has had a long-held norm of not featuring living presidents on the currency — until now.
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/29/trump-is-taking-charge-of-his-own-memorials/
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“[T]here’s a special meaning when leaders put themselves on money. It’s been the case, going back to the ancients, that monarchs and despots use this method to ensure their subjects understand they hold complete power and control the money supply. For this very reason, America has had a long-held norm of not featuring living presidents on the currency — until now.
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/29/trump-is-taking-charge-of-his-own-memorials/
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A quotation from Olivia Butler
Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be lied to.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.Octavia Butler (1947-2006) American writer
Parable of the Talents, ch. 11, epigraph (1998)More about this quote: wist.info/butler-octavia/48539…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oliviabutler #candidate #choice #coward #democracy #despot #election #fool #leader #liar #thief #tyrant
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A quotation from Olivia Butler
Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be lied to.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.Octavia Butler (1947-2006) American writer
Parable of the Talents, ch. 11, epigraph (1998)More about this quote: wist.info/butler-octavia/48539…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oliviabutler #candidate #choice #coward #democracy #despot #election #fool #leader #liar #thief #tyrant
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A quotation from Olivia Butler
Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be lied to.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.Octavia Butler (1947-2006) American writer
Parable of the Talents, ch. 11, epigraph (1998)More about this quote: wist.info/butler-octavia/48539…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oliviabutler #candidate #choice #coward #democracy #despot #election #fool #leader #liar #thief #tyrant
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A quotation from Olivia Butler
Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be lied to.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.Octavia Butler (1947-2006) American writer
Parable of the Talents, ch. 11, epigraph (1998)More about this quote: wist.info/butler-octavia/48539…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oliviabutler #candidate #choice #coward #democracy #despot #election #fool #leader #liar #thief #tyrant
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A quotation from Olivia Butler
Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be lied to.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.Octavia Butler (1947-2006) American writer
Parable of the Talents, ch. 11, epigraph (1998)More about this quote: wist.info/butler-octavia/48539…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oliviabutler #candidate #choice #coward #democracy #despot #election #fool #leader #liar #thief #tyrant
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Extreme obedience assumes ignorance in the one who obeys; it assumes ignorance even in the one who commands; he does not have to deliberate, to doubt, or to reason; he has only to want.
[L’extrême obéissance suppose de l’ignorance dans celui qui obéit; elle en suppose même dans celui qui commande: il n’a point à délibérer, à douter, ni à raisonner; il n’a qu’à vouloir.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 4, ch. 3 (4.3) (1748) [tr. Cohler/Miller/Stone (1989)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/81939/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #autocracy #autocrat #command #consideration #deliberation #despot #dictator #ignorance #obedience #reason #servility #tyranny #tyrant #want #will
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Extreme obedience assumes ignorance in the one who obeys; it assumes ignorance even in the one who commands; he does not have to deliberate, to doubt, or to reason; he has only to want.
[L’extrême obéissance suppose de l’ignorance dans celui qui obéit; elle en suppose même dans celui qui commande: il n’a point à délibérer, à douter, ni à raisonner; il n’a qu’à vouloir.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 4, ch. 3 (4.3) (1748) [tr. Cohler/Miller/Stone (1989)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/81939/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #autocracy #autocrat #command #consideration #deliberation #despot #dictator #ignorance #obedience #reason #servility #tyranny #tyrant #want #will
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Extreme obedience assumes ignorance in the one who obeys; it assumes ignorance even in the one who commands; he does not have to deliberate, to doubt, or to reason; he has only to want.
[L’extrême obéissance suppose de l’ignorance dans celui qui obéit; elle en suppose même dans celui qui commande: il n’a point à délibérer, à douter, ni à raisonner; il n’a qu’à vouloir.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 4, ch. 3 (4.3) (1748) [tr. Cohler/Miller/Stone (1989)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/81939/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #autocracy #autocrat #command #consideration #deliberation #despot #dictator #ignorance #obedience #reason #servility #tyranny #tyrant #want #will
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Extreme obedience assumes ignorance in the one who obeys; it assumes ignorance even in the one who commands; he does not have to deliberate, to doubt, or to reason; he has only to want.
[L’extrême obéissance suppose de l’ignorance dans celui qui obéit; elle en suppose même dans celui qui commande: il n’a point à délibérer, à douter, ni à raisonner; il n’a qu’à vouloir.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 4, ch. 3 (4.3) (1748) [tr. Cohler/Miller/Stone (1989)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/81939/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #autocracy #autocrat #command #consideration #deliberation #despot #dictator #ignorance #obedience #reason #servility #tyranny #tyrant #want #will
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“Young ladies, young ladies, I like ’em underage, see. Some say that’s statutory, but I say it’s mandatory.” - Kid Rock #resist #bluecrew #fascism #pedophilia #despot #fraud
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“Young ladies, young ladies, I like ’em underage, see. Some say that’s statutory, but I say it’s mandatory.” - Kid Rock #resist #bluecrew #fascism #pedophilia #despot #fraud
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zhy5q6ywonyzggakeff7zwr3/post/3meeb33urpg2v -
Men are still men. The despot’s wickedness
Comes of ill teaching, and of power’s excess, —
Comes of the purple he from childhood wears,
Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
[L’homme est homme toujours; les crimes du despote
Sont faits par sa puissance, ombre où son âme flotte,
Par la pourpre qu’il traîne et dont on le revêt,
Et l’esclave serait tyran s’il le pouvait.]Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Poem (1876), “The Vanished City [La Ville Disparue],” Legend of the Ages: New Series [La Légende des siècles: La Nouvelle Série], No. 4 (1877) [tr. Carrington (1885)]More about this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/81773/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #despot #error #humannature #power #revolution #slave #tyrant
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Men are still men. The despot’s wickedness
Comes of ill teaching, and of power’s excess, —
Comes of the purple he from childhood wears,
Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
[L’homme est homme toujours; les crimes du despote
Sont faits par sa puissance, ombre où son âme flotte,
Par la pourpre qu’il traîne et dont on le revêt,
Et l’esclave serait tyran s’il le pouvait.]Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Poem (1876), “The Vanished City [La Ville Disparue],” Legend of the Ages: New Series [La Légende des siècles: La Nouvelle Série], No. 4 (1877) [tr. Carrington (1885)]More about this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/81773/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #despot #error #humannature #power #revolution #slave #tyrant
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Men are still men. The despot’s wickedness
Comes of ill teaching, and of power’s excess, —
Comes of the purple he from childhood wears,
Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
[L’homme est homme toujours; les crimes du despote
Sont faits par sa puissance, ombre où son âme flotte,
Par la pourpre qu’il traîne et dont on le revêt,
Et l’esclave serait tyran s’il le pouvait.]Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Poem (1876), “The Vanished City [La Ville Disparue],” Legend of the Ages: New Series [La Légende des siècles: La Nouvelle Série], No. 4 (1877) [tr. Carrington (1885)]More about this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/81773/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #despot #error #humannature #power #revolution #slave #tyrant
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Men are still men. The despot’s wickedness
Comes of ill teaching, and of power’s excess, —
Comes of the purple he from childhood wears,
Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
[L’homme est homme toujours; les crimes du despote
Sont faits par sa puissance, ombre où son âme flotte,
Par la pourpre qu’il traîne et dont on le revêt,
Et l’esclave serait tyran s’il le pouvait.]Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Poem (1876), “The Vanished City [La Ville Disparue],” Legend of the Ages: New Series [La Légende des siècles: La Nouvelle Série], No. 4 (1877) [tr. Carrington (1885)]More about this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/81773/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #despot #error #humannature #power #revolution #slave #tyrant
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One day Trump and his works will be as Ozymandias:
‘I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.’
— Percy Byshe Shelley, 1818
#Ozymandias #Trump #USA #ICE #despot #king #fascist #HopeNotHate #Thoughts #future #Life -
One day Trump and his works will be as Ozymandias:
‘I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.’
— Percy Byshe Shelley, 1818
#Ozymandias #Trump #USA #ICE #despot #king #fascist #HopeNotHate #Thoughts #future #Life -
One day Trump and his works will be as Ozymandias:
‘I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.’
— Percy Byshe Shelley, 1818
#Ozymandias #Trump #USA #ICE #despot #king #fascist #HopeNotHate #Thoughts #future #Life -
At #Davos, the #World Watched the #Rantings of a #Despot https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=584268
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At #Davos, the #World Watched the #Rantings of a #Despot https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=584268
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At #Davos, the #World Watched the #Rantings of a #Despot https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=584268
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At #Davos, the #World Watched the #Rantings of a #Despot https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=584268
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At #Davos, the #World Watched the #Rantings of a #Despot https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=584268
