#insult — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #insult, aggregated by home.social.
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Top ten posts in April 2026 https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/05/01/top-ten-posts-in-april-2026/ #accessible #AlbertusParvusLucius #allForms #allyship #AntonioPagliarulo #apologize #apotropaia #appearance #April2026 #archetypal #Arius #art #astralMagic #AustinOsmanSpare #Babylonia #Baphoment #baroqueSymbolism #beauty #beliefSystems #bestPosts #bestTen #BobbyCampbell #catastrophe #change #chaosMagick #civilization #coCreation #comicbook #complete #divination #EricaReiner #evident #evolving #exhibition #extraordinaryFeats #extraordinaryLives #faiths #figure #folkMagic #follower #freeSpeech #freeThought #grimoriumVerum #guardian #guide #HandOfGlory #handcraftedArtifacts #herbalist #HistoricalIlluminatusChronicles #history #IlluminatusTrilogy #instructionalSymbol #insult #intercession #interpretations #intersection #jesus #JoelBernardBrady #key #kit #LOGOS373 #magic #magicalPractice #magicalRobes #MasksOfTheIlluminati #medicine #MiguelDeMolinos #mindTechniques #miracles #modern #Murderers #mysticalSolidarity #name #nature #needlecraft #newReligion #nocturnalRituals #novel #occult #onlyHope #optional #OraEtLabora #perish #persecutors #petitAlbert #philHine #practices #primer #queer #radical #reason #rituals #robertAntonWilson #RobertShea #sacredImplements #sainthood #saints #savingMankind #science #scientificTexts #selfEmpowerment #seriousThinkers #slavery #sorcererS #sorceresses #spiritRealm #Spiritual #spiritualFuture #spiritualGateway #stars #stones #summary #summaryOfTheMonth #supressors #symbolism #TalesOfIlluminatus #temple #TheGrimoireOfPopeHonorius #thelema #ThomasCranmer #ToddPurse #topPosts #topTen #transcendence #transformation #trueWill #upholders #veneration #zine -
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@sloanlance @faab64 I feel extremely strong contempt at least 11 (eleven) times towards when you write that: 1) I am allegedly "extremely stupid" 2) I am allegedly "extremely stupid", but in fact I am not only not extremely stupid, I am not even stupid, 3) I am allegedly "extremely stupid", but it's actually you who behaves here the way you behave, 4) I am allegedly "extremely stupid misopedist", 5) I am allegedly "extremely stupid misopedist", but in fact I am not an "extremely stupid misopedist", 6) I am allegedly a "misopedist" 7) I am allegedly a "misopedist", but in fact I am not a misopedist, 8) allegedly "EVERYBODY has extremely strong contempt towards me", but in fact it's not even remotely true that everybody has extremely strong contempt me, 9) allegedly "EVERYBODY has extremely strong contempt towards me", but it's actually you who behaves the way you do. 10) Ask me if I feel something that doesn't exist. 11) You tagged @faab64 in your reply
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The inclusion of the following hashtags is not meant to represent a relation to the content or topic of the reply and may or may not be only loosely related or based on loose, indirect or multiply indirect, logical, emotional, impressional or subconscious associations or a combination thereof, or completely unrelated:
#verbalabuse #gaslighting #falseaccusation #contempt #hypocrisy #cursing #namecalling #insulting #contemptible #rudeness #rude #insult #insults #abuse #hurling #expletives #lying #lyingintoface
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@sloanlance @faab64 I feel extremely strong contempt at least 11 (eleven) times towards when you write that: 1) I am allegedly "extremely stupid" 2) I am allegedly "extremely stupid", but in fact I am not only not extremely stupid, I am not even stupid, 3) I am allegedly "extremely stupid", but it's actually you who behaves here the way you behave, 4) I am allegedly "extremely stupid misopedist", 5) I am allegedly "extremely stupid misopedist", but in fact I am not an "extremely stupid misopedist", 6) I am allegedly a "misopedist" 7) I am allegedly a "misopedist", but in fact I am not a misopedist, 8) allegedly "EVERYBODY has extremely strong contempt towards me", but in fact it's not even remotely true that everybody has extremely strong contempt me, 9) allegedly "EVERYBODY has extremely strong contempt towards me", but it's actually you who behaves the way you do. 10) Ask me if I feel something that doesn't exist. 11) You tagged @faab64 in your reply
I have deployed consequences: reported your post and will block you shortly.
The inclusion of the following hashtags is not meant to represent a relation to the content or topic of the reply and may or may not be only loosely related or based on loose, indirect or multiply indirect, logical, emotional, impressional or subconscious associations or a combination thereof, or completely unrelated:
#verbalabuse #gaslighting #falseaccusation #contempt #hypocrisy #cursing #namecalling #insulting #contemptible #rudeness #rude #insult #insults #abuse #hurling #expletives #lying #lyingintoface
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@sloanlance @faab64 I feel extremely strong contempt at least 11 (eleven) times towards when you write that: 1) I am allegedly "extremely stupid" 2) I am allegedly "extremely stupid", but in fact I am not only not extremely stupid, I am not even stupid, 3) I am allegedly "extremely stupid", but it's actually you who behaves here the way you behave, 4) I am allegedly "extremely stupid misopedist", 5) I am allegedly "extremely stupid misopedist", but in fact I am not an "extremely stupid misopedist", 6) I am allegedly a "misopedist" 7) I am allegedly a "misopedist", but in fact I am not a misopedist, 8) allegedly "EVERYBODY has extremely strong contempt towards me", but in fact it's not even remotely true that everybody has extremely strong contempt me, 9) allegedly "EVERYBODY has extremely strong contempt towards me", but it's actually you who behaves the way you do. 10) Ask me if I feel something that doesn't exist. 11) You tagged @faab64 in your reply
I have deployed consequences: reported your post and will block you shortly.
The inclusion of the following hashtags is not meant to represent a relation to the content or topic of the reply and may or may not be only loosely related or based on loose, indirect or multiply indirect, logical, emotional, impressional or subconscious associations or a combination thereof, or completely unrelated:
#verbalabuse #gaslighting #falseaccusation #contempt #hypocrisy #cursing #namecalling #insulting #contemptible #rudeness #rude #insult #insults #abuse #hurling #expletives #lying #lyingintoface
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@sloanlance @faab64 I feel extremely strong contempt at least 11 (eleven) times towards when you write that: 1) I am allegedly "extremely stupid" 2) I am allegedly "extremely stupid", but in fact I am not only not extremely stupid, I am not even stupid, 3) I am allegedly "extremely stupid", but it's actually you who behaves here the way you behave, 4) I am allegedly "extremely stupid misopedist", 5) I am allegedly "extremely stupid misopedist", but in fact I am not an "extremely stupid misopedist", 6) I am allegedly a "misopedist" 7) I am allegedly a "misopedist", but in fact I am not a misopedist, 8) allegedly "EVERYBODY has extremely strong contempt towards me", but in fact it's not even remotely true that everybody has extremely strong contempt me, 9) allegedly "EVERYBODY has extremely strong contempt towards me", but it's actually you who behaves the way you do. 10) Ask me if I feel something that doesn't exist. 11) You tagged @faab64 in your reply
I have deployed consequences: reported your post and will block you shortly.
The inclusion of the following hashtags is not meant to represent a relation to the content or topic of the reply and may or may not be only loosely related or based on loose, indirect or multiply indirect, logical, emotional, impressional or subconscious associations or a combination thereof, or completely unrelated:
#verbalabuse #gaslighting #falseaccusation #contempt #hypocrisy #cursing #namecalling #insulting #contemptible #rudeness #rude #insult #insults #abuse #hurling #expletives #lying #lyingintoface
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To declare oneself a follower of Jesus is not only to insult history and reason but to apologize for the murderers of Arius, Molinos and Cranmer, the persecutors of science, the upholders of slavery and the suppressors of all free thought and speech. https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/04/23/to-declare-oneself-a-follower-of-jesus-is-not-only-to-insult-history-and-reason-but-to-apologize-for-the-murderers-of-arius-molinos-and-cranmer-the-persecutors-of-science-the-upholders-of-slavery-a/ #aleisterCrowley #all #apologize #Arius #book #declare #follower #freeSpeech #freeThought #hermeneuticon #history #iconomancy #insult #jesus #MiguelDeMolinos #Molinos #Murderers #notOnly #oneself #persecutors #quote #reason #science #slavery #speech #suppressors #TheConfessionsOfAleisterCrowley #ThomasCranmer #Thought #upholders -
“To declare oneself a follower of Jesus is not only to insult history and reason but to apologize for the murderers of Arius, Molinos and Cranmer, the persecutors of science, the upholders of slavery and the suppressors of all free thought and speech.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/04/23/to-declare-oneself-a-follower-of-jesus-is-not-only-to-insult-history-and-reason-but-to-apologize-for-the-murderers-of-arius-molinos-and-cranmer-the-persecutors-of-science-the-upholders-of-slavery-a/ #aleisterCrowley #all #apologize #Arius #book #declare #follower #freeSpeech #freeThought #hermeneuticon #history #iconomancy #insult #jesus #MiguelDeMolinos #Molinos #Murderers #notOnly #oneself #persecutors #quote #reason #science #slavery #speech #suppressors #TheConfessionsOfAleisterCrowley #ThomasCranmer #Thought #upholders
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To declare oneself a follower of Jesus is not only to insult history and reason but to apologize for the murderers of Arius, Molinos and Cranmer, the persecutors of science, the upholders of slavery and the suppressors of all free thought and speech. https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/04/23/to-declare-oneself-a-follower-of-jesus-is-not-only-to-insult-history-and-reason-but-to-apologize-for-the-murderers-of-arius-molinos-and-cranmer-the-persecutors-of-science-the-upholders-of-slavery-a/ #aleisterCrowley #all #apologize #Arius #book #declare #follower #freeSpeech #freeThought #hermeneuticon #history #iconomancy #insult #jesus #MiguelDeMolinos #Molinos #Murderers #notOnly #oneself #persecutors #quote #reason #science #slavery #speech #suppressors #TheConfessionsOfAleisterCrowley #ThomasCranmer #Thought #upholders -
Words cutt more than swords.
James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/83382/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #cruelty #cutting #fightingwords #gossip #hatespeech #insult #language #rhetoric #sharpness #slander #speech #sword #verbalabuse #words #wound
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"Trump's signature is set to start adorning new U.S. dollars later this year, a change that the Treasury Department said was in honor of America's 250th anniversary."
In honor of the vanity of one person. 🙄
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/us/politics/trump-signature-us-dollars.html
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A soft Tongue may strike hard.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1744 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/35…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #attack #calumny #chiding #hurtfulness #insult #libel #slander #speech #talking #verbalabuse #words
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet, wit, dramatist
Essay (1891-02), “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” Fortnightly Review, Vol. 49 (ns)More about this quote: wist.info/wilde-oscar/81828/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oscarwilde #advice #budget #heartlessness #impoverished #insult #necessity #need #poor #poverty #spending #thrift
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And today's multi-hour confusing time suck was:
`curl -H "Authorization: ${TOKEN}"`
(Note conspicuous lack of the word `Bearer`)
To add #insult to #injury, this old #Perl guy had to dig into some #PHP in order to figure out where his stupid #shellscript went wrong.
On the other hand, I did gather enough #research to propose a #solution to #decommission a piece of #commercial software in favor of a mix of #cloud services and #selfhosted #opensource.
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Why The MAGA-verse Let Trump Trash Rob Reiner – HuffPost Life
Psychologists React To THAT Post From Trump About Rob Reiner’s Death
“It’s really significant when someone like Donald Trump does this,” one psychologist explained. “It sends a signal that it’s acceptable to do this.”
By Katherine Speller, Dec 19, 2025, 07:00 AM EST, |Updated Dec 19, 2025
In the aftermath of the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner, the internet flooded with heartfelt messages of shared grief and support for the family.
Mostly.
Over on Truth Social, the posting medium of choice for President Donald Trump, the tone was different.
“A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS,” the president wrote on Truth Social on Monday night.
Trump and Reiners image…“He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump,” Trump continued, “with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!”
Insulting the victims of a domestic violence-related crime and somehow making the tragedy about his own victimhood didn’t resonate for many.
Even some proud Trump voters stepped up on the Truth Social platform to critique the president’s “tacky” response to a family tragedy, calling it “heartless and uncalled for” and “unnecessary” to attack Reiner in that moment. Yet, as of this writing, his post still had 9.31k reposts and 38.9k likes. Although there have been some prominent Republican detractors, they were mostly individuals who were already on the outs with the president or had previously spoken against him.
Trump’s offensive message came after extensive discourse, fueled by the right in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, arguing that “insensitive critiques” of the dead (like sharing words they said aloud to a camera) were in poor taste, grounds for people to lose their jobs, and even akin to promoting political violence.
To gain a better understanding of how this seemingly hypocritical dynamic came to be, HuffPost spoke with psychologists about what causes individuals to condemn something vehemently one day, only to find themselves seemingly indifferent just a few months later.
Why Would Anyone Post Like That?
“It is no real surprise that Trump made it all about himself,” John Jost, co-director of the Center for Social and Political Behavior at New York University, told HuffPost. “That is what destructive narcissists do, people who exhibit what psychologists refer to as malevolent personality traits.”
“Trump also makes Freud relevant again,” Jost added. “Projection is an everyday occurrence. In this case, someone is deranged, but it’s not Rob Reiner.”
Daniel R. Stalder, a social psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, told HuffPost that most people attempt to find and understand the “why” when processing a tragedy like this — even if information is limited in the immediate aftermath. And though there’s undoubtedly a political component to the messaging, Stalder said parts of Trump’s post do also seem to align with the psychology of victim blaming.
“In general, unfortunately, it’s relatively common to respond to tragedy by searching for and finding some reason to blame the victim(s) of the tragedy,” Stalder said. “There are psychological benefits to victim blaming — not that those benefits can excuse it.”
Among those benefits are satisfying “one’s just-world beliefs and one’s need for control “because if we can identify something negative about the victim’s character that caused the outcome, then we might feel safer that the outcome won’t happen to us.”
Psychotherapist Gina Simmons Schneider said that the nature of online communication may also play a part in how easily we can dehumanize one another, as well as the normalization of this kind of posting.
“We also know that the more distant we feel from others, the easier it is to inflict harm. That’s why we see so much cruelty online,” Simmons Schneider said. “You might behave politely toward the person with opposing beliefs who happens to be sitting next to you on an airplane. Online, it’s easy to spew hate without seeing the direct social consequences of that abusive behavior.”
However, in the long run, reinforcing the hypocrisy can lead to a cognitive dissonance that can manifest via feelings of anxiety: “To resolve that internal conflict, we must either change our values or change our behavior to align with them,” Simmons Schneider said.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Why The MAGA-verse Let Trump Trash Rob Reiner | HuffPost Life
Tags: Demean, Deride, Destructive Narcissists, Heartless, Huffpost, HuffPost Life, Insult, MAGA, MAGA-verse, Malevolent, Psychology, Psychotherapist, Rob Reiner, Tacky, Therapy, Trump, Trump Psychology
#Demean #Deride #DestructiveNarcissists #Heartless #Huffpost #HuffPostLife #Insult #MAGA #MAGAVerse #Malevolent #Psychology #Psychotherapist #RobReiner #Tacky #Therapy #Trump #TrumpPsychology -
A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1879-05), “The Truth of Intercourse,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 39More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #betrayal #calumny #defamation #disloyalty #inaction #insult #lies #lying #silence #sinofomission #slander #speakup
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A little Raymond #Chandler to light up your day: "Who said anything about Hollywood Boulevard?" I asked. "You did. Nobody but a guy from Hollywood Boulevard wouldn't talk back to a girl that insulted him civilly."
A man and a girl at a nearby table turned their heads and stared. The man gave me a short, sympathetic grin. "That goes for you, too," the girl said to him.
"You didn't insult me yet," he said.
"Nature beat me to it, handsome."
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You will be careful, if you are wise;
How you touch Men’s Religion, or Credit, or Eyes.Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1742 ed.)More info about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/79…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #insult #offense #offensiveness #religion #sensitivity #takingoffense #touchiness
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A quotation from Claude Bernard
You need not hesitate to say aloud that my adversary is wrong and that he is an imbecile.
[Vous ne devez pas hésiter à dire hautement que mon adversaire a tort et que c’est un imbécile.]Claude Bernard (1813-1878) French physiologist, scientist
Cahier de Notes (1860) [tr. Hoff / Guillemin / Guillemin (1967)]Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bernard-claude/78555…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #claudebernard #admission #correction #dolt #error #imbecile #insult #stupidity
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A quotation from Claude Bernard
You need not hesitate to say aloud that my adversary is wrong and that he is an imbecile.
[Vous ne devez pas hésiter à dire hautement que mon adversaire a tort et que c’est un imbécile.]Claude Bernard (1813-1878) French physiologist, scientist
Cahier de Notes (1860) [tr. Hoff / Guillemin / Guillemin (1967)]Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bernard-claude/78555…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #claudebernard #admission #correction #dolt #error #imbecile #insult #stupidity
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A quotation from Claude Bernard
You need not hesitate to say aloud that my adversary is wrong and that he is an imbecile.
[Vous ne devez pas hésiter à dire hautement que mon adversaire a tort et que c’est un imbécile.]Claude Bernard (1813-1878) French physiologist, scientist
Cahier de Notes (1860) [tr. Hoff / Guillemin / Guillemin (1967)]Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bernard-claude/78555…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #claudebernard #admission #correction #dolt #error #imbecile #insult #stupidity
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A quotation from Claude Bernard
You need not hesitate to say aloud that my adversary is wrong and that he is an imbecile.
[Vous ne devez pas hésiter à dire hautement que mon adversaire a tort et que c’est un imbécile.]Claude Bernard (1813-1878) French physiologist, scientist
Cahier de Notes (1860) [tr. Hoff / Guillemin / Guillemin (1967)]Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bernard-claude/78555…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #claudebernard #admission #correction #dolt #error #imbecile #insult #stupidity
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Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
The Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 128 (1955)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoffer-eric/17022/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #calumny #credulity #flattery #insult #others #popularity #publicopinion #selfawareness #selfimage #selfopinion
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"Crazzyyyy that we've turned #unemployed into an #insult. Especially to disparage #women and particularly #trans women. Like I feel like maybe you should wonder why there's a large #intersection between #marginalized women and #homelessness. Like this is blatant #antifeminism and #classism and #everyone acts like its normal!"
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"Crazzyyyy that we've turned #unemployed into an #insult. Especially to disparage #women and particularly #trans women. Like I feel like maybe you should wonder why there's a large #intersection between #marginalized women and #homelessness. Like this is blatant #antifeminism and #classism and #everyone acts like its normal!"
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"Crazzyyyy that we've turned #unemployed into an #insult. Especially to disparage #women and particularly #trans women. Like I feel like maybe you should wonder why there's a large #intersection between #marginalized women and #homelessness. Like this is blatant #antifeminism and #classism and #everyone acts like its normal!"
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"Crazzyyyy that we've turned #unemployed into an #insult. Especially to disparage #women and particularly #trans women. Like I feel like maybe you should wonder why there's a large #intersection between #marginalized women and #homelessness. Like this is blatant #antifeminism and #classism and #everyone acts like its normal!"
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A quotation from Steven Moffat
WATSON: Pink. You got all that because you realized the case would be pink?
HOLMES: Well, it had to be pink, obviously.
WATSON: Why didn’t I think of that?
HOLMES: Because you’re an idiot. [WATSON looks up, insulted.] No, no, no, don’t be like that. Practically everyone is.Steven Moffat (b. 1961) Scottish television writer, producer
Sherlock, 01×01 “A Study in Pink” (2010-07-25)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/moffat-steven/78102/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #stevenmoffat #sherlock #genius #idiot #insult #perspective
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.
[Il y a des reproches qui louent, et des louanges qui médisent.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶148 (1665-1678) [tr. Bund/Friswell (1871)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #appreciation #backhandedcompliment #censure #commendation #compliment #condemnation #damnwithfaintpraise #insult #praise #reproach
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A quotation from Ambrose of Milan
To avoid dissensions we should ever be on our guard, more especially with those who drive us to argue with them, with those who vex and irritate us, and who say things likely to excite us to anger. When we find ourselves in company with quarrelsome, eccentric individuals, people who openly and unblushingly say the most shocking things, difficult to put up with, we should take refuge in silence, and the wisest plan is not to reply to people whose behavior is so preposterous.
Those who insult us and treat us contumeliously are anxious for a spiteful and sarcastic reply: the silence we then affect disheartens them, and they cannot avoid showing their vexation; they do all they can to provoke us and to elicit a reply, but the best way to baffle them is to say nothing, refuse to argue with them, and to leave them to chew the cud of their hasty anger. This method of bringing down their pride disarms them, and shows them plainly that we slight and despise them.
[Sed etiam ille cavendus; est, qui videri potest, quicumque inritat, quicumque incitat, quicumque exasperat, quicumque incentiva luxuriae aut libidinis suggerit. Quando ergo aliquis nobis convitiatur, lacessit, ad violentiam provocat, ad iurgium vocat: tunc silentium exerceamus, tunc muti fieri non erubescamus. Peccator est enim qui nos provocat, qui iniuriam facit et nos similes sui fieri desiderat.
Denique si taceas, si dissimules, solet dicere: Quid taces? Loquere, si audes; sed non audes, mutus es, elinguem te feci. Si ergo taceas, plus rumpitur; victum sese putat, inrisum, posthabitum atque inlusum.]Ambrose of Milan (339-397) Roman theologian, statesman, Christian prelate, saint, Doctor of the Church [Aurelius Ambrosius]
De Officiis Ministrorum [On the Duties of the Clergy], Book 1, ch. 5, sec. 17-18 (AD 386)Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/ambrose-saint/32739/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #stambrose #anger #argument #calumny #disdain #dismiss #goad #ignore #insult #irritation #mute #provocation #quiet #scorn #silence #vexation
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It really hurts me very much to suppose that I have wronged anybody on earth.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1858-10-13), Lincoln-Douglas Debate No. 6, Quincy, IllinoisSourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/3203…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #amiability #compassion #goodperson #guilt #guiltyconscience #insult #offense #sensitivity #shame #wrong
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8 years ago, some tech bros tried to impress Miyazaki with their AI animation.
Dude hit 'em with the 'your existence offends me' energy. Absolute savage. 🔥💀"
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Scorn Affronts: let Dogs Bark, and Asses Kick.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 34 (1725)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #abuse #affront #calumny #insult #slander
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Hard poem, but reflects how I feel these days…
Acid - #MaryOliver
In Jakarta,
among the venders
of #flowers and soft drinks,
I saw a child with a hideous mouth,
#begging,
and I knew the #wound was made
for a way to stay alive.
What I gave him
wouldn’t keep a dog alive.
What he gave me
from the brown coin
of his sweating face
was a look of #cunning.
I carry it
like a bead of acid
to remember how,
once in a while,
you can creep out of your own life
and become someone else—
an #explosion
in that nest of wires
we call the #imagination.
I will never see him
again, I suppose.
But what of this rag,
this shadow
flung like a boy’s body
into the walls
of my mind, bleeding
their sour taste—
#insult and #anger,
the great movers? -
Today in BoneQuest History for January 10th 2010 "THE FUCKING NEWS FLASH" https://bonequest.com/4078 #bonequest :deuce: #deuce_solo #insult #newsflash #sarcasm
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#DemocraticParty #Nominee for #Presidnet #KamalaHarris and #allies aim new #ad, #texts at #PuertoRican #voters after #Trump #MadisonSquareGarden #rally #insult.
The #Harris #campaign says it is making a six-figure #investment to air the #ad in #battlegroundstates in the final days before the #election.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/31/harris-trump-puerto-rico-insult/
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#ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump #faceplants again while trying to #insult #VicePresident #KamalaHarris’ #intelligence.
The #senile #former #president didn’t seem to know the #line of #presidential #succession, a #concept so #rudimentary that it’s #taught in #gradeschool.
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#ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump and #ShadyVance’s (#JDVance) #Astoundingly #Stupid and #Weird #Attempts to #Win #Women #Voters.
They think they can #insult #women’s #intelligence and then win over #womenvoters by #pretending to be #moderate on #reproductiverights. How’s that for #dumb?
https://newrepublic.com/maz/article/185535/trump-vance-stupid-attempt-win-women-voters
