#virtuesignaling — Public Fediverse posts

The Questions Dublin Won’t Ask

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/the-questions-dublin-wont-ask/

Virtue signaling, guilt trips, and wage theft is what corporations do best, that's how they become a big company... 😒

#Company #Policy
#VirtueSignaling #GuiltTrips #WageTheft

⬆️ @vij

#Biden fucked us all royally by not assuming emergency powers after #Jan6 coup attempt and by not restoring the balance to #SCOTUS after #Republicans stole at least 2 seats.

A coup attempt is exactly the sort of situation when a candidate who had just won an election can flex their muscle, but Biden was busy #virtueSignaling instead

Ob Du es "#Anstand" oder "#VirtueSignaling" nennst, hängt im wesentlichen davon ab, ob Du es seit dem Kindergarten kennst und vorgelebt bekommst.

Falls nicht, bist Du von jedem Rest von Anstand in der Öffentlichkeit immer wieder so überrascht, dass Du ihn nur als Wink mit dem Zaunpfahl verstehen kannst, exklusiv für Leute wie Dich.

Spoiler: Menschen tun's einfach füreinander. Niemand hat Zeit, Lust, oder auch nur den Gedanken, Deine Erziehung nachholen zu wollen. Kümmer Dich selber drum.

Cynicism and nihilism aren't going to get us out of this mess. @DennyCarterBFT argues the case for earnestness and virtue-signaling in the face of fascism. "I can think of worse societal trends than people — particularly young people — saying, 'I approve of this good thing and I want credit and adoration for that.'"

https://flip.it/.wGkGq

#USPolitics #VirtueSignaling #Earnestness #Culture

Cynicism and nihilism aren't going to get us out of this mess. @DennyCarterBFT argues the case for earnestness and virtue-signaling in the face of fascism. "I can think of worse societal trends than people — particularly young people — saying, 'I approve of this good thing and I want credit and adoration for that.'"

https://flip.it/.wGkGq

#USPolitics #VirtueSignaling #Earnestness #Culture

🚨OMG, #OpenAI, are you seriously trying to out-noble yourselves with this ancient self-sacrifice clause? 🥴 Your 2018 idealism is so last decade, and let's face it, no one's racing to put themselves out of business! 😂 #VirtueSignalingFAIL
https://mlumiste.com/general/openai-charter/ #SelfSacrifice #VirtueSignaling #Critique #TechNews #Humor #HackerNews #ngated

🚨OMG, #OpenAI, are you seriously trying to out-noble yourselves with this ancient self-sacrifice clause? 🥴 Your 2018 idealism is so last decade, and let's face it, no one's racing to put themselves out of business! 😂 #VirtueSignalingFAIL
https://mlumiste.com/general/openai-charter/ #SelfSacrifice #VirtueSignaling #Critique #TechNews #Humor #HackerNews #ngated

Music First, Agenda Last

https://ericfoltin.com/2026/02/08/music-first-agenda-last/

People on the Fediverse pride themselves of being smarter than all those "idiots" on other platforms, and then I see things like a campaign to "block" Bluesky on the Fediverse...

All that absence of thinking is tiring...

Reply people, if you want to reply, be careful how you do it, you will be judged.

#Fediverse #Bluesky #Mastodon #VirtueSignaling #Idiocy

People on the Fediverse pride themselves of being smarter than all those "idiots" on other platforms, and then I see things like a campaign to "block" Bluesky on the Fediverse...

All that absence of thinking is tiring...

Reply people, if you want to reply, be careful how you do it, you will be judged.

#Fediverse #Bluesky #Mastodon #VirtueSignaling #Idiocy

Let's talk about "vice signaling." This is a term I learned from following @[email protected]. We've all heard of "virtue signaling," but I think it's important to talk about performative cruelty. What are your thoughts? #performative #virtuesignaling #vicesignaling #thecrueltyisthepoint

Let's talk about "vice signaling." This is a term I learned from following @[email protected]. We've all heard of "virtue signaling," but I think it's important to talk about performative cruelty. What are your thoughts? #performative #virtuesignaling #vicesignaling #thecrueltyisthepoint

Let's talk about "vice signaling." This is a term I learned from following @[email protected]. We've all heard of "virtue signaling," but I think it's important to talk about performative cruelty. What are your thoughts? #performative #virtuesignaling #vicesignaling #thecrueltyisthepoint

Let's talk about "vice signaling." This is a term I learned from following @[email protected]. We've all heard of "virtue signaling," but I think it's important to talk about performative cruelty. What are your thoughts? #performative #virtuesignaling #vicesignaling #thecrueltyisthepoint

Let's talk about "vice signaling." This is a term I learned from following @[email protected]. We've all heard of "virtue signaling," but I think it's important to talk about performative cruelty. What are your thoughts? #performative #virtuesignaling #vicesignaling #thecrueltyisthepoint

Let's talk about "vice signaling." This is a term I learned from following @[email protected]. We've all heard of "virtue signaling," but I think it's important to talk about performative cruelty. What are your thoughts? #performative #virtuesignaling #vicesignaling #thecrueltyisthepoint

Let's talk about "vice signaling." This is a term I learned from following @[email protected]. We've all heard of "virtue signaling," but I think it's important to talk about performative cruelty. What are your thoughts? #performative #virtuesignaling #vicesignaling #thecrueltyisthepoint

Let's talk about "vice signaling." This is a term I learned from following @[email protected]. We've all heard of "virtue signaling," but I think it's important to talk about performative cruelty. What are your thoughts? #performative #virtuesignaling #vicesignaling #thecrueltyisthepoint

Let's talk about "vice signaling." This is a term I learned from following @[email protected]. We've all heard of "virtue signaling," but I think it's important to talk about performative cruelty. What are your thoughts? #performative #virtuesignaling #vicesignaling #thecrueltyisthepoint

Let's talk about "vice signaling." This is a term I learned from following @[email protected]. We've all heard of "virtue signaling," but I think it's important to talk about performative cruelty. What are your thoughts? #performative #virtuesignaling #vicesignaling #thecrueltyisthepoint

@holger

Wird im Englischen #VirtueSignaling - deutsch: Moralisieren - genannt, umgangssprachlich auch Holier-than-thou, Heiliger-als-Du. Macht viele - nicht alle! - Linke so wahnsinnig anstrengend, humorlos & unsympathisch. Wenn mich mal wieder jemand anmacht, weil ich „nur“ #vegetarisch lebe, antworte ich freundlich: „Danke, aber ich habe schon eine #Religion & brauche dafür keinen Ersatz.“ ☺️🙏🖖

@holger

Wird im Englischen #VirtueSignaling - deutsch: Moralisieren - genannt, umgangssprachlich auch Holier-than-thou, Heiliger-als-Du. Macht viele - nicht alle! - Linke so wahnsinnig anstrengend, humorlos & unsympathisch. Wenn mich mal wieder jemand anmacht, weil ich „nur“ #vegetarisch lebe, antworte ich freundlich: „Danke, aber ich habe schon eine #Religion & brauche dafür keinen Ersatz.“ ☺️🙏🖖

JMMR drops the last single, Virtue Signaling, before the release of the upcoming album, Resistance is Fertile. #music #jmmr #virtuesignaling #ResistanceIsFertile #nublu

https://evl.one/virtue-signaling-by-jmmr

When they go low, we #GoBallistic.

Instead of #virtueSignaling, "The American public wants to ... be part of a movement to #FightBack for their rights."

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/democrats-primary-congress-house-anger-candidates

🎉 "Codeberg hits #300k projects!" screams the headline, but it's really just 300k ways to procrastinate with a side of virtue signaling. 🤦‍♂️ Let's all cheer for the Berlin-based nonprofit that's totally not just another Github wannabe! 🎈
https://codeberg.org/ #Codeberg #Procrastination #VirtueSignaling #BerlinNonprofit #GitHubWannabe #HackerNews #ngated

🎉 "Codeberg hits #300k projects!" screams the headline, but it's really just 300k ways to procrastinate with a side of virtue signaling. 🤦‍♂️ Let's all cheer for the Berlin-based nonprofit that's totally not just another Github wannabe! 🎈
https://codeberg.org/ #Codeberg #Procrastination #VirtueSignaling #BerlinNonprofit #GitHubWannabe #HackerNews #ngated

⬆️ @ArenaCops

>> Nothing to write home about for #MerrickGarland, #GOP-compromised partisan US judiciary & practically disabled Separation of Powers in the US

Still confounds me that #Biden appointed a #Republican for the most important post in his cabinet — one who then ruined his legacy.

I cannot even imagine that #BillBarr would have appointed a #Democrat instead of #Mueller for Special Counsel.

Yet, Biden threw away the Attorney General post for a SCOTUS justice wannabe. #virtueSignaling

@carrieberry

#Newsom is reaching out to the same group and speaking to them in the same language as #Trump, and showing them that politics is a double-edged sword. #Democrats too can take the same policy stance as #Republicans and hurt Republicans in the process.

We've seen how elitism and excessive #virtueSignaling worked out for #Biden and #Harris. Let's give Newsom's approach a chance. What's the worst that could happen? Horrified Democrats voting for Republicans?

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗛𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗸" 𝗯𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗰𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗻𝗶𝘁 -

Though even the update seems out of date now (2015), Solnit's grasp of the breadth of narratives outside of our vision & our obsessiveness with some despairing ones is a healthy and needed perspective.

https://youtu.be/F7TxtHDFMyc

#books #bookreviews #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #rebeccasolnit #hopeinthedark #virtuesignaling #despair #hope #politics #activism #mentalhealth

Because automotive dashboards really are the most convenient place to store books.
#VirtueSignaling

#ukpol #LINO #starmer this is what #virtuesignaling looks like "cunning stunt" . #BAE_Systems #export_licenses I rest my case! #refugeeswelcome #savepalestine #gaza #israel UK complicit 100%

#ukpol #LINO #starmer this is what #virtuesignaling looks like "cunning stunt" . #BAE_Systems #export_licenses I rest my case! #refugeeswelcome #savepalestine #gaza #israel UK complicit 100%

🚨 Breaking News: Patriotic Shoppers Caught in the Act! 🚨 We ran an A/B test and discovered that people love to *say* they'll pay more for "Made in the USA," but when it comes to actually hitting "checkout," their wallets suddenly get very patriotic too—by staying firmly closed. 📉🦅 The only thing consumers seem to be buying is the idea of appearing virtuous. 😆💸
https://afina.com/blogs/news/made-in-usa #PatrioticShopping #ConsumerBehavior #MadeInUSA #A/BTesting #VirtueSignaling #HackerNews #ngated

🚨 Breaking News: Patriotic Shoppers Caught in the Act! 🚨 We ran an A/B test and discovered that people love to *say* they'll pay more for "Made in the USA," but when it comes to actually hitting "checkout," their wallets suddenly get very patriotic too—by staying firmly closed. 📉🦅 The only thing consumers seem to be buying is the idea of appearing virtuous. 😆💸
https://afina.com/blogs/news/made-in-usa #PatrioticShopping #ConsumerBehavior #MadeInUSA #A/BTesting #VirtueSignaling #HackerNews #ngated

"…clear indication that leaders from disparate factions of #Democratic party are increasingly willing to put aside ideological differences in favor of a more … confrontational approach to the second #Trump administration. And it’s a sign that Democratic #voters will perhaps be less driven this midterm cycle by the ideological purity tests that have gripped the party in the past, looking instead for leaders who they view as fighting against Trump."

Screw #virtueSignaling

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/some-weird-alliances-breaking-democrats-conor-lamb-fetterman-ocasio-aoc

⬆️ @AlliFlowers

Oh, come on! We all know the real reason.

#Biden did not have the "power" to fire #Dejoy because it is the Board's prerogative, not the President's, and influencing the Board would have turned Biden into a #fascist and sullied his legacy 🙄

#virtueSignaling

Ich bin dieses Jahr echt auf den #PrideMonth gespannt, denn dann werden wir sehen, ob es vor allem die amerikanischen Unternehmen Ernst meinen oder das ganze von Anfang an nur #VirtueSignaling war und sie einfach denen, die am lautesten schreien, hinterherrennen.

@osnews
Sudden realization.

Everyone who is seeing the misnaming on the Gulf of Mexico (it does not show for me) should go put in a bug report right now to #GoogleMaps complaining that the #GulfOfMexico has the wrong name. Deny the #fascist movement their power, act incredulous, assert reality.

#Resist. #DoNotCapitulate.

Make it clear that the people who care about this weird #VirtueSignaling are the people who aren't going along with it.

Air Force celebrates Tuskegee Airmen and female pilots in videos while Trump’s GOP dismantles diversity programs in real-time. Performative history lessons won’t mask regressive policies. #VirtueSignaling #GOPHypocrisy https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/25/air-force-videos-tuskegee-airmen-female-pilots

Wie waer's @jesuisatire wenn du mich aus deinen Windmühlenschlachten heraushältst?
Du scheinst deine eigenen Erkenntnisse von noch vor der COVID-Zeit mal wieder völlig außer acht zu lassen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJI9ZzrgJsY
.. dumm geboren und nix dazu gelernt wa?

@tierranietos wird sich wenn überhaupt mit denen beschäftigen die selber den Weg dorthin finden. Die Selfie-facebook Egomanen kümmern sich um sich und ihre eigenen Probleme, ihr Fatalismus ist nur #virtueSignaling.

@LeilahLilienruh
@cyberhero

Okay, hear me out...

With the corporations like Meta, Threads, Amazon, Xitter (the Shirtbird site, i.e. Twitter), etc. crapping all over the LGBTQ+ folks, scrapping their DEI programs, allowing hate on their platforms, I'm forced to come to this conclusion:

Whatever programs they previously had were not based on honest beliefs. They were just going through the motions because they believed that it made money. Thus, they were virtue signaling for the sake of money.

I sure plan to remember this, when the wind shifts again, and they decide that reinstating some of those programs is in their best interest.

#corporations #Meta #Threads #Amazon #Xitter #ShitbirdSite #Twitter #DEI #lgbtq #hate #VirtueSignaling #capitalism #money #dishonest #liars

#virtueSignaling is ending
It's as if big corporations were never dependable allies to begin with.

2024 - Twitter doesn't moderate any longer
- Zoom, Google, Meta and Microsoft stop or reduce their DEI
2025
Jan 6 - McDonald's stops several diversity practices
Jan 7 - Meta stops fact checkers
Jan 9 - Elon talks with German right win party leader
- BlackRock, Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs are exiting climate group (Net-Zero Banking Alliance)

@AllanBarte En aparté: sinon, pour la mort de Zineb Redouane, le pouvoir Français, il a été condamné?

Et cette étudiante, pourquoi ne pas l'avoir dessinée au sol en burka, tant qu'à y être? Combien d'entre vous ont regardé ces images tournées au quotidien dans les rues Iraniennes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es3gwbhxz6w

#VirtueSignaling #WesternPropaganda

@katrinB
Habe soeben endlich ein etwas kompletteres und zusammenhängenderes Stück von jenem #podCast zu Gesicht bekommen und muss sagen, bei dem Thema geht es nicht um "einen Witz" sondern um ein ziemlich langes und sehr sehr peinliches Gespräch zum Fremdschämen von .. ich erspare mir weitere Worte und Titel .. .
Mir scheint @schroeder_live hat hier ziemlich in's Klo gegriffen mit seinem Versuch eine durchaus allgemein existierende #virtueSignaling #Kultur anzugreifen.
@AnitaWorks9698 hat recht

#virtuesignaling

It always irks me when people on the left nitpick other people on the same side for not being left enough. Centrists are just not good enough for them. And Republicans no longer wanting fascist Trump aren't good enough for them either. Don't listen to them or be discouraged by them. This kind of political perfectionism--which they believe is political progressivism--will get us nowhere. It is a form of unproductive aggressive dominance. #virtuesignaling #democracy #AmericanPolitics

Normalize expressing #virtues

http://inaniludibrio.com/2024/02/29/normalize-expressing-virtues/

#VirtueSignaling #virtue #FirstPrinciples

The Distinction Between Migrant And Expat May Not Be The One You Think

The wrong definition will mark you as someone fighting the wrong battle.

If you insist that by definition expat means white skin, while migrant means person of color, what you are engaging in is performative social justice and virtue signaling. “Look at how virtuous I am!” What you are doing actually helps no one. Moreover, it insults large groups of people. The rest of the article will explain my logic.

I’ve seen a few definitions proposed by people in the fediverse. Here’s one:

An expat is someone who goes to another country seeking a better standard of living, but white.

A migrant is someone who goes to another country seeking a better standard of living, but not white.

– A naive person

Your definition is naive and entirely misses the mark. A migrant is someone who moves to another country with the intention to stay there indefinitely. An expat is someone who moves to another country with the intention to stay there temporarily. Temporarily can be months, or it can be years. And yes, they are allowed to change their mind along the way. Skin color does not enter into the equation.

The distinction I’ve given you above is based on the person’s own intent: do they want to stay indefinitely, or temporarily. There is, however, another view, the one held by the government. This view may or may not coincide with the view I’ve given you above. I’m an example of this. I came to the USA on a temporary work visa. It had to be renewed periodically, but in theory it was not a path to citizenship. So the government would have put me in the expat category.

(Quick note, I cannot talk much about other jurisdiction than the US. Moreover, the US government does not talk about expats. You’re either on an immigrant visa, or a non-immigrant one. My visa was non-immigrant. I’m simplifying here. However, going by the definition of expat I’ve given you, the government would have to agree that I was an expat because my visa did not allow for an indefinite stay.)

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Truth be told, at the time, my intent was to stay, but I did not know if I would actually stay. I came to the USA to be in a relationship with my ex-wife. If the relationship had fallen apart, maybe I would have returned to Canada. The relationship did not fail, however, or I guess I should say that it did fail, 26 years later. The way the law is laid out, it was entirely legal for me to get a green card, and then citizenship.

So from my point of view I was a migrant, unless a disaster happened between my ex-wife and I. However, from the point of view of the government I was an expat. There is some fluidity in the two categories that the naive definition I cited above does not allow.

In addition, there is a third view, the one used by the mass media. The mass media likes to call those people moving to another country for temporary work, “migrant workers.” This label is validated by its usage. However, the label itself does not imply a migration from one country to another. Sometimes the term is applied to people within a country that seek work in another area of the same country. It typically has nothing to do with skin color or ethnicity.

Don’t take your cue from the mass media, however. It likes to distort everything, especially when it comes to minorities. If you are autistic, I’m sure you love the stereotyped version of the autistic person that the mass media peddles. This person cannot be a woman, or a person of color. It has to be a young white male savant obsessed with trains. If you are pansexual, or better pansexual or polyamorous, then you are someone who has no boundaries and is greedy. This is all nonsense.

Let’s say you have a group of people moving from a foreign country to the USA for temporary work. If we go by the definition based on intent, these people may be expats, or migrants. Some of them may willingly be coming only temporarily into the country. Others may be looking for a way to stay indefinitely. In the eyes of the government, however, all of them are expats, because their visa does not allow an indefinite stay.

As I said above, I’m a migrant. I’ve also been an expat at times in my life, like when I went to India and Taiwan. I was never aiming to migrate there, but I spent extended time in both place. Consequently, I’ve been a member of several expat communities. The naive definition I gave above insults the people who are part of these communities. Including the people of color who are, in fact, expats but that your definition excludes.

I can assure you that the expat community was not any more or any less racist than the rest of the population. Actually, I’d expect it was less racist, as those people were likely to be okay with interacting with people of different cultures, ethnicities, races, etc. I cannot prove this, however.

Moreover, here’s something you may have not considered. Migrants definitely get exploited, but expats also get exploited by citizens of the country they move to. Let’s take H1B holders from India. It is well-known that employers in the US hire them with the notion that they are going to work on the cheap. Some of them are in the US temporarily, and are expats. Some of them aim to stay permanently, and are migrants. However, the H1B is temporary. Consequently, from the point of view of the government, they are all expats.

I’ve mentioned being a member of several expat communities. These people were oftentimes people teaching languages abroad. And yes, some of them found themselves in difficult situations. Natives of the countries they moved to tried to exploit them. It did not matter to anyone that they were expats and not migrants.

I mentioned above having been an expat. People have tried to exploit me. It is simple, when people see a foreigner, they think they have an easy mark. Both in India and Taiwan, some folks tried to pull the wool over my eyes a few times. They were unable to do so. In India, the local language was Marathi, but I spoke only Hindi. In Taiwan, the main language was Mandarin, which I spoke, though not well. The secondary language was Taiwanese, that I did not speak at all. Who knows what I would have heard if I had been fully fluent in the languages I heard?

Asserting the naive definition that I gave above amounts to performative social justice, and virtue signaling. It makes you feel good about yourself, but it does not actually do anything of substance for the people you pretend to be defending.

#AutisticWriters #expat #immigrant #immigration #migrant #PerformativeSocialJustice #racism #VirtueSignaling #YourAutisticLife

https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2024/01/29/the-distinction-between-migrant-and-expat-may-not-be-the-one-you-think/

@georgetakei #VirtueSignaling pure and simple. 🤷🏻‍♂️

i don't give a shit about "why I don't like Bluesky" posts on mastodon any more than I care about "why I don't like mastodon" posts on Bluesky.

WHO CARES! Use it, don't use it, whatever.

#VirtueSignaling is such a waste of your and my time!

Ist das jetzt #greenwashing oder #virtuesignaling ?

Oder allgemein Unkreativität?

It's nice to see some pushback against those who want to kick the #BBC out of the #fediverse. Who demand their instance be blocked. Who berate them for platforming voices that are insufficiently concerned about trans issues sometimes etc.

Some of us have derisively called this attitude #woke for a while now. It's not empathy as much as #virtuesignaling that won't really help anyone. We think trying to remove some people/groups from the conversation is appropriately called #cancelculture. FYI.

I think that "tweet sent from Maggie's Range Rover" puts to bed the idea that #virtuesignaling is predominantly a left-wing concept. #ukpol #roadsafety