#dishonor — Public Fediverse posts
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No person is so foolish that they don’t understand that if we remain asleep at this moment we will have to live through a rule that is not only cruel and arrogant but ignoble and disgraceful too. You know this man’s arrogance, his friends, and his whole household. To serve shameful lusts, bullies, disgusting and irreverent thieves, those drunkards — well, that is the worst suffering married to the greatest dishonor.
[Nemo est tam stultus qui non intellegat, si indormierimus huic tempori, non modo crudelem superbamque dominationem nobis sed ignominiosam etiam et flagitiosam ferendam. Nostis insolentiam Antoni, nostis amicos, nostis totam domum. Libidinosis, petulantibus, impuris, impudicis, aleatoribus, ebriis servire, ea summa miseria est summo dedecore coniuncta.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 3, ch. 14 / sec. 34-35 (3.14/3.34-35) (44-12-20 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2021)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
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"“For him to insult #MedalOfHonor recipients, just as he has previously attacked #GoldStar families, mocked #prisoners of war, and referred to those who lost their lives in service to our country as ‘suckers’ and ‘losers,’ should remind all #Americans that we owe it to our service members, our country, and our future to make sure #DonaldTrump is never our nation’s commander in chief again,” Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika said."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/16/trump-medal-of-honor-much-better/