#destructiveness — Public Fediverse posts

"For Israel, War Is the Only Answer":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/opinion/international-world/israel-war-strategy.html
"War is increasingly the Israel’s go-to response to geopolitical challenges — not just the strategy but the norm."
#HumanRights versus #Israel #recklessness #destructiveness

On Sunday, '60 Minutes' interviewed three Catholic Cardinals who were appropriately critical of the wars and behavior of Donald Trump.

One Cardinal said: "We are seeing the possibility of war after war after war" started by Donald Trump.

Trump ordered military attacks against Iran, then Venezuela, now Iran again, and in the near future maybe against Greenland and Cuba.
#Trump is in a #WorldWarAgainstTheWorld. #politics #military.
#recklessness #destructiveness #extremism #incompetence.

A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

   Is it unreasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time spring up among us? And when such an one does, it will require the people to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to successfully frustrate his designs.
   Distinction will be his paramount object, and although he would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire it by doing good as harm, yet, that opportunity being past, and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1838-01-27), “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions,” Young Men’s Lyceum, Springfield, Illinois

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7732…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #lincoln #abrahamlincoln #abrahamlincolnquotes #ambition #autocrat #demagogue #despot #destructiveness #menace #teardown #tyrant

A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

   Is it unreasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time spring up among us? And when such an one does, it will require the people to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to successfully frustrate his designs.
   Distinction will be his paramount object, and although he would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire it by doing good as harm, yet, that opportunity being past, and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1838-01-27), “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions,” Young Men’s Lyceum, Springfield, Illinois

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7732…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #lincoln #abrahamlincoln #abrahamlincolnquotes #ambition #autocrat #demagogue #despot #destructiveness #menace #teardown #tyrant

A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

   Is it unreasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time spring up among us? And when such an one does, it will require the people to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to successfully frustrate his designs.
   Distinction will be his paramount object, and although he would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire it by doing good as harm, yet, that opportunity being past, and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1838-01-27), “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions,” Young Men’s Lyceum, Springfield, Illinois

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7732…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #lincoln #abrahamlincoln #abrahamlincolnquotes #ambition #autocrat #demagogue #despot #destructiveness #menace #teardown #tyrant

"While the United States saved modest sums by allowing little girls to starve, it escalated the Biden bombing campaign in Yemen, striking targets almost every day" and accomplishing nothing:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/opinion/yemen-war-trump.html
#destructiveness #cruelty #Trump #ineffective #politics

DOGE "cuts funds that aren’t going to make a dent in the federal budget. But they have also entirely disrupted the way most people think government should work. It’s not a technical victory, but a cultural victory":
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/16/silicon-valley-elon-musk-washington-00204388 #Trump #politics #cruelty #carelessness #malice #destructiveness #LackOfCommonSense

Why Musk's DOGE process cuts off cancer research, axes genomics departments, and ends AIDS assistance:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/16/silicon-valley-elon-musk-washington-00204388 #Trump #politics #cruelty #carelessness #malice #destructiveness #LackOfCommonSense