A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Self-deception once yielded to, all other deceptions follow naturally more and more.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, London
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Knaves and Hipocrates see through the Whole sistem at once. I will take the People their own way says one of these, I will serve them without Pay, I will give them money, I will make them beleive that I am perfectly disinterested untill I gain their Confidence and exite their enthusiasm. then I will Carry that Confidence and Enthusiasm to markett and will sell it for more than all I give them, and all their Pay would have amounted to — si populus vult decipi decipiatur [if the people want to be deceived, they will be deceived].
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1785-09-10) to John Jebb
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
The cruellest 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. 39
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What knowing Judgment, or what piercing Eye,
Can Man’s mysterious Maze of Falshood try?
Intriguing Man, of a suspicious Mind,
Man only knows the Cunning of his Kind;
With equal Wit can counter-work his Foes,
And Art with Art, and Fraud with Fraud oppose.
Then heed ye Fair, e’er you their Cunning prove,
And think of Treach’ry, while they talk of Love.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1742 ed.)
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🚨"Erika Kirk has 3 university degrees, she’s a businesswoman & CEO, she got married in her 30s (to a man 5 years younger than her), had kids in her mid 30s… her entire life is the result of #feminism
-naz
Charlie Kirk: Women in Their Early 30's Are "Not At Their Prime ...Not As Attractive." He married his wife whe she was 32.
Rules for them, & rules for us. The GOP platform is based on #deceit & #corruption.
#Hypocrisy #CharlieKirk #TradWife #Republicans #Women #USPol
https://meidasnews.com/news/charlie-kirk-women-in-their-early-30s-are-not-at-their-prime-not-as-attractive
#trump #Advocates #Military #Pentagon #Immigration #Fascism #Deceit #alt
Heather Cox Richardson 9/21/25
JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERALS SILENCED MOVED THE IMMIGRATION COURTS
#trump #Statics #Food #Insecurity #Fascism #Agriculture ##Consumers #Jobs #Deceit #alt
Heather Cox Richardson 9/21/25
TRUMP REGIME WON’T RELEASE STATISTICS CONCERNING JOBS AND FOOD INSECURITY
#happybirthday #HarryTreadaway #actor #narek #startrekpicard #theloneranger #cityofember #honeymoon #fishtank #cockneysvszombies #Afterlife #Meadowlands #TheNightWatch #CapeWrath #FlightoftheStorks #PennyDreadful #MrMercedes #TheCrown #Deceit #TheChemistryofDeath #startrek59 @trekcore
Some photography companies are scumbags.
https://soc.sty.nu/2025/08/23/generosity-dishonesty-and-copyright/
#photography #copyright #scotland #commerce #deceit #dishonesty
I guess the Proud Boys marching and beating people in Portland were a prototype for ICE and the racist Republican party's very own National Guard in cities with Black mayors like Los Angeles, and now Chicago. It has been mighty quiet since the fascists got their pardons and put on masks as ICE to terrorize, assault, batter, kidnap, and imprison immigrants and American citizens alike in an American Nazi gulag of concentration camps designed for torture.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3lwyzis765k2t
#USpolitics #Trump #coup #fascism #treason #lies #deceit #frauds #Republicans #fascists #Nazis
Trump’s order has led to stepped-up fed LE in DC *sharing a pic of a bloodied Coristine -fmr DOGE stfer said: beaten by loc thugs."
Violent crime in DC has been on the decline, starting last year.
The fed effort has incl an increase in arrests of undoc #immigrants in the city.
In D-leaning states, ICE: more likely to arrest IMMs from the comm, w 70% of arrests in worksites, streets... In R-lean states, 59% of #ICE arrests: in prisons/jails.
#PoliceState #Deceit #USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/06/trump-dc-crime-home-rule/
#deceit : any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false
- French: deuil
- German: die Täuschung
- Portuguese: engano / fraude
- Spanish: luto
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Lying is a base vice, and painted in its most shameful colors by one of the ancients, who says that to lie is to give proof that you despise God and at the same time are afraid of men.
[C’est un vilain vice, que le mentir ; & qu’un ancien peint bien honteusement, quand il dit, que c’est donner tesmoignage de mespriser Dieu, & quand & quand de craindre les hommes.]
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 18 (2.18), “Of Giving the Lie [Du desmentir]” (1578) [tr. Zeitlin (1934)]
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#Water #Theft #Fraud #Deceit #Capitalist This man is a prolific liar. He is competing for the world cup currently held by his boss, #KeirStarmer
🚨 Oh, #Apple, you cheeky wallets of #digital deceit! 🤑 Apparently, sending unwanted movie ads directly to your pocket is the latest innovation in making customers trust you less. 🙃 Because nothing says "reliable" like turning your phone into a spam machine for cinematic delights no one asked for. 🍿📱
https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/more_on_apples_trust-eroding_f1_the_movie_wallet_ad #Deceit #MovieAds #SpamTech #TrustIssues #HackerNews #ngated
“Tucked into the Senate GOP reconciliation bill is a🚨$5 TRILLION increase in the debt limit.
Full text of Senate BBB weighs in at 940 pages:”
-J Dupree
Democracy dies in darkness.
#BBB #Debt #Congress #Republicans #Deceit #DebtLimit #Austerity #Medicaid #Budget #TrumpRegime #Lies #USPol
https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/the_one_big_beautiful_bill_act.pdf
The truth has infinite paths. The lies only one.
☆ Maria Karvouni Truth
The Impossible Proof Of Knowing Nothing
#nonfiction #history #deception #deceit #philosophy #philosophicalhistory #epistemology #knowledge #solipsism #creativenonfiction #narrativenonfiction #parapsychology #philosophicalnonfiction #selfhelp #truecrime #hightech #high-tech #hightechnology #technology #creativity #spirituality #future #futuristic #futuristictech #historicalnonfiction #logic #reason #reasoning #wisdom #life
“Problem: can't get the model to say what you want
solution: just rewrite the data.
Statisticians don't want you to know this one simple trick.
On a serious note, the fact that it's this hard to get AI models to mirror the political biases of their creators is actually kinda encouraging.”
-K Carr
#AI #Musk #Grok #Technology #Deceit #Stats #USPol
Indeed, Vae Victis*, is very applicable to what the GOP is doing to the #US.
As you say, an occupying power.
* Vae Victis: Woe to the conquered".
It expresses the sentiment that the defeated in battle are at the mercy of the victors.
@jmkorhonen.fi
#GOP #USA #Looting #NoLaws #NoDecency #NoRules #Deceit
