#superiority — Public Fediverse posts

There is no “white is better than colored”, or vice versa. It’s just a matter of necessity, a.k.a. #Chemistry, not of #Superiority.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th-0rmRYBSg

#superiority #notrump #fucktrump #fuckmaga #fuckafd #Racism #chemistry #evolution

There is no “white is better than colored”, or vice versa. It’s just a matter of necessity, a.k.a. #Chemistry, not of #Superiority.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th-0rmRYBSg

#superiority #notrump #fucktrump #fuckmaga #fuckafd #Racism #chemistry #evolution

A quotation from Twain

The question as to whether there is such a thing as divine right of kings is not settled in this book. It was found too difficult. That the executive head of a nation should be a person of lofty character and extraordinary ability, was manifest and indisputable; that none but the Deity could select that head unerringly, was also manifest and indisputable; that the Deity ought to make that selection, then, was likewise manifest and indisputable; consequently, that He does make it, as claimed, was an unavoidable deduction. I mean, until the author of this book encountered the Pompadour, and Lady Castlemaine, and some other executive heads of that kind; these were found so difficult to work into the scheme, that it was judged better to take the other tack in this book (which must be issued this fall), and then go into training and settle the question in another book. It is, of course, a thing which ought to be settled, and I am not going to have anything particular to do next winter anyway.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Preface

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A quotation from Twain

The question as to whether there is such a thing as divine right of kings is not settled in this book. It was found too difficult. That the executive head of a nation should be a person of lofty character and extraordinary ability, was manifest and indisputable; that none but the Deity could select that head unerringly, was also manifest and indisputable; that the Deity ought to make that selection, then, was likewise manifest and indisputable; consequently, that He does make it, as claimed, was an unavoidable deduction. I mean, until the author of this book encountered the Pompadour, and Lady Castlemaine, and some other executive heads of that kind; these were found so difficult to work into the scheme, that it was judged better to take the other tack in this book (which must be issued this fall), and then go into training and settle the question in another book. It is, of course, a thing which ought to be settled, and I am not going to have anything particular to do next winter anyway.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Preface

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A quotation from Brennan Manning

In effect, Jesus says the Kingdom of His Father is not a subdivision for the self-righteous nor for those who feel they possess the state secret of their salvation. The Kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self-conscious cast of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle.

Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 1 “Something Is Radically Wrong” (1990)

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A quotation from Brennan Manning

In effect, Jesus says the Kingdom of His Father is not a subdivision for the self-righteous nor for those who feel they possess the state secret of their salvation. The Kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self-conscious cast of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle.

Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 1 “Something Is Radically Wrong” (1990)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brennanmanning #Christianity #Jesus #KingdomofGod #moralstruggle #salvation #selfrighteousness #sinner #snobbery #superiority

The Infrastructure Layer U.S. Space Superiority Has Been Missing
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=the-infrastructure-layer-us-space-superiority-has-been-missing
Key insight: <p>Space domain awareness has a data problem
#infrastructure #superiority #shortage #missing

BAE Systems introduces Ascent™ spacecraft to support space superiority and exploration
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=bae-systems-introduces-ascent-spacecraft-to-support-space-superiority-and-exploration
Quick take: <p>BROOMFIELD, Colo
#superiority #exploration #spacecraft #introduces

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

   The superior man is the man that loves his fellow-man; the superior man is the useful man; the superior man is the kind man, the man who lifts up his down-trodden brothers; and the greater the load of human sorrow and human want you can get in your arms, the easier you can climb the great hill of fame. The superior man is the man who loves his fellow-man.
   And let me say right here, the good men, the superior men, the grand men are brothers the world over, no matter what their complexion may be; centuries may separate them, yet they are hand in hand; and all the good, and all the grand, and all the superior men, shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart, are fighting the great battle for the progress of mankind.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Speech (1876-10-20), “Hayes Campaign,” Exposition Building, Chicago

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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

   The superior man is the man that loves his fellow-man; the superior man is the useful man; the superior man is the kind man, the man who lifts up his down-trodden brothers; and the greater the load of human sorrow and human want you can get in your arms, the easier you can climb the great hill of fame. The superior man is the man who loves his fellow-man.
   And let me say right here, the good men, the superior men, the grand men are brothers the world over, no matter what their complexion may be; centuries may separate them, yet they are hand in hand; and all the good, and all the grand, and all the superior men, shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart, are fighting the great battle for the progress of mankind.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Speech (1876-10-20), “Hayes Campaign,” Exposition Building, Chicago

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A quotation from Lincoln

   If A. can prove, however conclusively, that he may, of right, enslave B. — why may not B. snatch the same argument, and prove equally, that he may enslave A?
   You say A. is white, and B. is black. It is color, then; the lighter having the right to enslave the darker? Take care. By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with a fairer skin than your own.
   You do not mean color exactly? — You mean the whites are intellectually the superior of blacks, and, therefore, have the right to enslave them? Take care again. By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with an intellect superior to your own.
   But, say you, it is a question of interest; and, if you can make it your interest, you have the right to enslave another. Very well. And if he can make it his interest, he has the right to enslave you.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Note (1854-07-01?), On Slavery (fragment)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abrahamlincoln #debate #enslavement #justification #racism #rationalization #reasoning #slavery #superiority

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart — the best brain. Superiority is born of honesty, of virtue, of charity, and above all, of the love of liberty. The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Speech (1883-10-22), “Liberty,” Address on the Civil Rights Act, Lincoln Hall, Washington, D. C.

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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart — the best brain. Superiority is born of honesty, of virtue, of charity, and above all, of the love of liberty. The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Speech (1883-10-22), “Liberty,” Address on the Civil Rights Act, Lincoln Hall, Washington, D. C.

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A quotation from Eric Hoffer

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 1, ch. 2, § 9 (1951)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #cause #ego #excellence #group #nationalism #pride #racism #superiority #tribe

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. It finishes one half of the human Soul. It makes Being pleasant to us, fills the mind with entertaining views and administers to it a perpetual series of gratifications. It gives ease to fortitude, and gracefulness to retirement. It fills a publick station with suitable abilities, and adds a lustre to those who are in the possession of them.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-18), The Guardian, No. 111

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A quotation from Joseph Addison

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. It finishes one half of the human Soul. It makes Being pleasant to us, fills the mind with entertaining views and administers to it a perpetual series of gratifications. It gives ease to fortitude, and gracefulness to retirement. It fills a publick station with suitable abilities, and adds a lustre to those who are in the possession of them.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-18), The Guardian, No. 111

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #education #excellence #knowledge #learning #superiority

He is handing me a gift "here is some of my power & time to grow your power & time."

IMO that is genuinely the most submissive thing a man can do, because there is a $100 trillion dollar wealth gap between men & women globally. A man who is not afraid to help me close that gap is not afraid for ALL men to lose power. #Feminine #superiority is long overdue.

I might get shit for this but IDGAF, we are essentially sexy Robin Hoods.
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A quotation from John Adams

Power always Sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon Foi, believes itself Right. Power always thinks it has a great Soul and vast Views, beyond the Comprehension of the Weak; and that it is doing God Service when it is violating all his Laws.

John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Letter (1816-02-02) to Thomas Jefferson

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #beneficence #cause #contempt #divinelaw #ego #patronizing #perspective #power #rectitude #righteousness #selfrighteousness #superiority #tyranny #vanity #virtue

A quotation from John Adams

Power always Sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon Foi, believes itself Right. Power always thinks it has a great Soul and vast Views, beyond the Comprehension of the Weak; and that it is doing God Service when it is violating all his Laws.

John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Letter (1816-02-02) to Thomas Jefferson

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #beneficence #cause #contempt #divinelaw #ego #patronizing #perspective #power #rectitude #righteousness #selfrighteousness #superiority #tyranny #vanity #virtue

@vagina_museum I'm sorry vegans, we found the one thing that makes us superior to non-human animals. (That is sarcasm.) #Veganism #Animalrights #Speciesism #Superiority #Humansuperiority

@vagina_museum I'm sorry vegans, we found the one thing that makes us superior to non-human animals. (That is sarcasm.) #Veganism #Animalrights #Speciesism #Superiority #Humansuperiority

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #government / #superiority / #hegemony / #foreignpolicy / #occupation

„Two years of war have brought tactical changes and immense suffering, but the political status quo endures.“

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/03/gaza-israel-palestine-ceasefire-trump-netanyahu-hamas/

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #government / #superiority / #hegemony / #foreignpolicy / #occupation

„Two years of war have brought tactical changes and immense suffering, but the political status quo endures.“

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/03/gaza-israel-palestine-ceasefire-trump-netanyahu-hamas/

Nicola Sturgeon says #BorisJohnson 'least emotionally intelligent #politician’

“I think #politics sucks it out of people. I also think people with very low #emotional #intelligence are probably disproportionately attracted to the status.

“I guess it kind of sits with #narcissism. I’ve come across them all my life in politics, people who exude this kind of #superiority complex.”

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25378508.nicola-sturgeon-opens-self-doubt-superpower-ahead-memoir/

#QuestionAuthority #UK #Scotland #ToxicTories

Nicola Sturgeon says #BorisJohnson 'least emotionally intelligent #politician’

“I think #politics sucks it out of people. I also think people with very low #emotional #intelligence are probably disproportionately attracted to the status.

“I guess it kind of sits with #narcissism. I’ve come across them all my life in politics, people who exude this kind of #superiority complex.”

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25378508.nicola-sturgeon-opens-self-doubt-superpower-ahead-memoir/

#QuestionAuthority #UK #Scotland #ToxicTories

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 104 (1955)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #authoritarian #butchery #ego #evil #humanity #inhumanity #megalomania #ruthlessness #selfrighteousness #superiority #control #sick

#usa #israel #iran : #war / #superiority / #freedomofaction

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/analysis-israeli-air-power-reigns-over-iran-but-needs-us-for-deeper-impact/ar-AA1GTm5M

See also:

Trump: ‘We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5354932-iran-skies-control-trump/

#Capitalism #slavery required white #people to believe in #supremacy and #superiority to accept their deteriorating conditions caused by cheap black #slave #labor
https://t.me/syndiegram/4562

#video #classwar #society #humans #earth #fascism #capitalism #oppression #repression #racism #statism #chattelslavery #slave #slaves #ausgov #politas #eattherich

#Capitalism #slavery required white #people to believe in #supremacy and #superiority to accept their deteriorating conditions caused by cheap black #slave #labor
https://t.me/syndiegram/4562

#video #classwar #society #humans #earth #fascism #capitalism #oppression #repression #racism #statism #chattelslavery #slave #slaves #ausgov #politas #eattherich

A quotation from Joseph Addison

The truth is, the person who pretends to advise, does, in that particular, exercise a superiority over us, and can have no other reason for it, but that, in comparing us with himself, he thinks us defective either in our conduct or our understanding. For these reasons, there is nothing so difficult as the art of making advice agreeable; and indeed all the writers, both ancient and modern, have distinguished themselves among one another, according to the perfection at which they have arrived in this art.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1712-10-17), The Spectator, No. 512

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #advice #adviser #attitude #comparison #paternalism #perspective #superiority

https://www.evshift.com/324745/chevrolet-superiority/ Chevrolet Superiority #chevrolet #ChevroletPerformance #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicles #EV #Superiority

#Cats #Caturday #FelineSarcasm #Superiority

#Cats #Caturday #FelineSarcasm #Superiority

A quotation from Byron

He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find
   The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow;
   He who surpasses or subdues mankind
   Must look down on the hate of those below.

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 3, st. 45 (1816)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #byron #domination #envy #hatred #jealousy #power #resentment #success #superiority

A quotation from Cicero

No one, whether poet or orator, ever yet thought anyone else better than himself. This is the case even with bad ones.
 
[Nemo umquam neque poëta neque orator fuit, qui quemquam meliorem quam se arbitraretur. Hoc etiam malis contingit.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 14, Letter 20, sec. 3 (14.20.3) (44 BC) [tr. Shuckburgh (1900), # 724]

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #self-image #cicero #author #best #creativity #ego #orator #poet #pride #selfappreciation #superiority #writer #writing

A quotation from Jeremy Taylor

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his Neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold Mine! how much is he to give place to a chain of Pearl, or a knot of Diamonds? for certainly that hath the greatest excellence from whence he derives all his gallantry and preeminence over his Neighbours.

Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) English cleric and author
The Rule and Exercise of Holy Living, ch. 2 “Of Christian Charity,” sec. 4 “Of Humility” (1650)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #money #comparison #ego #money #pride #riches #superiority #wealth

A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one

With #Putin’s #threats in #Ukraine, #China’s accelerated #weapons programme and the #US’s desire for #superiority, what will it take for leaders to step back from the brink?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/14/nuclear-weapons-war-new-arms-race-russia-china-us

#nuclear #NuclearWeapons #war #ArmsRace #OnePlanet #capitalism

A quotation from Selden, John:

«
We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
»

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https://wist.info/selden-john/27686/

#quote #quotes #quotation #admiration #applause #comparison #ego #excellence #pride #standards #superiority

@lauren

Owning an EV does have the benefit of being immediately visible to everyone, so you can feel superior to others without having to announce "I'm vegan" every time you enter a room.

😜

#vegan #superiority #EV

@lauren

Owning an EV does have the benefit of being immediately visible to everyone, so you can feel superior to others without having to announce "I'm vegan" every time you enter a room.

😜

#vegan #superiority #EV

I find it interesting to observe how the #discourse defending #Elon Musk has changed.

A message consists of 3 main parts: Content, Attitude & Context.

While the content his remaining defenders is still the same: ”progress”, ”space” etc, the attitude has changed.

I no longer find comments without some form of appeal to #hierarchy in them. ”Irrelevant”, ”regular people”, ”hater” etc.

It seems that the only people left defending him are ones who signal with #superiority of some over others.

I find it interesting to observe how the #discourse defending #Elon Musk has changed.

A message consists of 3 main parts: Content, Attitude & Context.

While the content his remaining defenders is still the same: ”progress”, ”space” etc, the attitude has changed.

I no longer find comments without some form of appeal to #hierarchy in them. ”Irrelevant”, ”regular people”, ”hater” etc.

It seems that the only people left defending him are ones who signal with #superiority of some over others.

Some of the subjs are of mixed ethnicity…& insist they don’t embrace the #racist agenda of… #MAGA…, even if they keep hyping the #superiority of “#WesternCivilization.” Nevertheless, #Homegrown doesn’t fawn or flatter its subjs. We also see them participating in #violent *protests* & eventually, in the case of one named #ChristopherQuaglin, …the #Jan6, 2021, #insurrection. Premo himself…#films Quaglin from…the middle of the crush, as the mob tries to enter the #Capitol bldg.

#Trump #Terrorism

Some of the subjs are of mixed ethnicity…& insist they don’t embrace the #racist agenda of… #MAGA…, even if they keep hyping the #superiority of “#WesternCivilization.” Nevertheless, #Homegrown doesn’t fawn or flatter its subjs. We also see them participating in #violent *protests* & eventually, in the case of one named #ChristopherQuaglin, …the #Jan6, 2021, #insurrection. Premo himself…#films Quaglin from…the middle of the crush, as the mob tries to enter the #Capitol bldg.

#Trump #Terrorism

We're all racists, probably even more so if we aren't on Mastodon

• racist towards everyone else who isn't white
• sexist towards everyone who isn't cis-male
• homophobic towards everyone who isn't heterosexual
• transphobic towards trans people
• generally queerphobic towards everyone who isn't cisgender
• ableist towards disabled people, no matter what else you do to include them
• Islamophobic towards Muslims
• anti-Semitic/anti-Judaist towards Jews
• and generally hostile and xenophobic towards all marginalised minorities anywhere in the Fediverse.

We're all racists, probably even more so if we aren't on Mastodon

• racist towards everyone else who isn't white
• sexist towards everyone who isn't cis-male
• homophobic towards everyone who isn't heterosexual
• transphobic towards trans people
• generally queerphobic towards everyone who isn't cisgender
• ableist towards disabled people, no matter what else you do to include them
• Islamophobic towards Muslims
• anti-Semitic/anti-Judaist towards Jews
• and generally hostile and xenophobic towards all marginalised minorities anywhere in the Fediverse.

The #Christian #Illusion of #Rational #Superiority

https://www.debunking-christianity.com/2023/11/the-christian-illusion-of-rational_01084003365.html

#christianity #atheism #criticalThinking #arrogance #rationalThinking #philosophy #god #jesus #sundayschool #atheist

#Colonalism’s #legacy seen in #marriage #debate

Some #Anglicans are debating whether an attitude of #superiority continues to affect the Communion’s wealthier Western provinces in discussions on #samesexmarriage, despite explicit #condemnations of #colonialism in a statement by #Lambeth #bishops that deals, among other things, with #samesex #unions

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Africa #UK #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
https://anglicanjournal.com/colonalisms-legacy-seen-in-marriage-debate/