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#indecency — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. “I don’t need international law,” he added. “I’m not looking to hurt people.” [no one believes that]

    When pressed further about whether his admin needed to abide by #InternationalLaw, #Trump said, “I do.” But he made clear he would be the only arbiter when such constraints applied to the #UnitedStates.

    “It depends what your definition of international law is,” he said. [🤦🏼‍♀️]

    #felon47 #law #indecency #degenerate #rapist #greed #sociopath #racist #WhiteSupremacy #misogyny #amorality

  2. Somewhat to my surprise, Obama mentioned Trump’s speech at the Boy Scouts’ National Jamboree earlier that year. This appearance has been largely forgotten, but it was a festival of #indecency. At one point, #Trump told the scouts about a wealthy friend of his who, he suggested, did unmentionable things on his yacht.

    #AntiAmerican #democracy #law #Constitution #NeverForget #Epstein

  3. “We have slowly adjusted to this entirely new culture from the top, perhaps in the hope that it will somehow be sated soon—but then new indecencies happen,” Sullivan wrote.

    The subject of #Trump’s #indecency came up in a conversation I had with Barack Obama in 2017. I asked him to name the most norm-defying act of his successor to date.

    #AntiAmerican #democracy #law #Constitution #NeverForget

  4. In an important essay, Andrew Sullivan noted this past fall that #Trump’s #indecency is comprehensive in style and substance. “It is one thing to be a realist in foreign policy, to accept the morally ambiguous in an immoral world; it is simply indecent to treat a country, #Ukraine, invaded by another, #Russia, as the actual aggressor & force it to accept a settlement on the invader’s terms,” Sullivan wrote.

    andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/

    #Jan6 #Trump #AntiAmerican #law #democracy #Constitution

  5. For reasons that are quite possibly too unbearable to contemplate, a large group of American voters was not repulsed by such slander—they were actually aroused by it—& our #politics have not been the same. Much has been said, including by me, about Trump’s #narcissism, his #autocratic inclinations, his disconnection from #reality, but not nearly enough has been said about his fundamental #indecency, the characteristic that undergirds everything he says & does.

    #Jan6 #Trump #AntiAmerican #law

  6. The power to #pardon is a vestige of America’s pre-independence past. It is an unchecked monarchical power, an awesome power, & therefore it should be bestowed only on leaders blessed with self-restraint, civic-mindedness, &, most important, basic #decency.

    We have been watching #indecency triumph in the public sphere on & off for more than 10 years now, since the moment #Trump insulted John McCain’s war record.

    #Jan6 #NeverForget #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #democracy #law #Constitution

  7. @bebadefabo @galad @draNgNon

    correct, but without the cynical resignation:

    fighting #fascism is not a one-and-done, never was

    there is always a rising tide of #ignorance and #indecency

    it requires you to always fight it. now and forever. that's just the cost of #society

    this shouldn't depress you, this should educate you on the terms of living in our reality

    it's just taking the trash out every thursday

    and if you don't take out the trash, you live in filth

    example: the current #usa

  8. "by goosing #ignorance and #indecency the #plutocrats can pull con jobs on hateful dimwits to wield power" - @benroyce

  9. "#Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income #Tax on $2 Billion of #US Income in 2024"

    itep.org/tesla-reported-zero-f

    this right here

    the root of all of our problems

    how a cringe #edgelord icon of #bigotry like #Musk can wield so much power and how our #democracy dies to #plutocracy

    well, not the root of all of our problems

    the #bigots matter too

    by goosing #ignorance and #indecency the #plutocrats can pull con jobs on hateful dimwits to wield power

    the #plutocrat-#bigot #political axis

    our enemy

  10. @SearingTruth @hamishb @JapanProf

    i disagree

    if something is #decentralized it can't be taken over by #venturecapital

    that's a huge difference in my view

    you're worried about the dominant human sentiment

    positive aspects of human sentiment can become dominant again in a system where #ignorance and #indecency is warded against, rather than amplified on purpose by #plutocrat agendas like on #centralized #socialmedia

    a system like the #fediverse #mastodon *has* to grow

    to save us

  11. @TimBondy @meltedcheese

    i will

    #maga and #conservatives are ignorant pieces of shit

    #ignorance and #indecency has motivated every single instinct of there's since time immemorial

    they are the toilet of #society

    nothing but #malice #grief and #suffering for us, including their dimwitted controlled zombies, who don't understand the reasons for their own impoverishment is what they support

    and then glee for #bigots, #plutocrats, and #sadists

  12. A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore:

    «
    The worth of the ideal must be largely determined by the success with which it can in practice be realized. We should abhor the so-called “practical” men whose practicality assumes the shape of that peculiar baseness which finds its expression in disbel…
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/7

    #quote #quotes #quotation #amorality #decency #extremist #idealist #ideals #impossibility #indecency #perfectionist #practicality #pragmatism

  13. A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore:

    «
    The worth of the ideal must be largely determined by the success with which it can in practice be realized. We should abhor the so-called “practical” men whose practicality assumes the shape of that peculiar baseness which finds its expression in disbel…
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/7

    #quote #quotes #quotation #amorality #decency #extremist #idealist #ideals #impossibility #indecency #perfectionist #practicality #pragmatism

  14. A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore:

    «
    The worth of the ideal must be largely determined by the success with which it can in practice be realized. We should abhor the so-called “practical” men whose practicality assumes the shape of that peculiar baseness which finds its expression in disbel…
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/7

    #quote #quotes #quotation #amorality #decency #extremist #idealist #ideals #impossibility #indecency #perfectionist #practicality #pragmatism

  15. it's also a sad joke because... #fluoride and #drinkingwater freakouts are batshit #paranoia for morons from 70 years ago, 1950s #redscare #johnbirchsociety bullshit

    they are mining old stupid crap that was lampooned before most of us were born

    so our era is now:

    yoke dum dums via #socialmedia for #political #power by pandering to their #ignorance and #indecency, #fear and #hate

    this is our world now

    😩

  16. #Trump's plan to deport millions of #immigrants, even legal ones, is #racism:

    msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/m

    It's also #fascism

    The #Nazis planned in 1940 to deport #Jews to #Madagascar

    It proved unworkable and the plan was shelved in 1942:

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagasc

    Talk of #deportation is a #racist #fascist dog whistle to #ignorance and #indecency

    And it serves as a #psychological stepping stone to worse

    Students of #history can see that

    But millions of #American fools don't know, don't care