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WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-08-21

A quotation from Ben Franklin

The cringing Train of Pow’r, survey;
What Creatures are so low as they!
With what obsequiousness they bend!
To what vile actions condescend!
Their Rise is on their Meanness built,
And Flatt’ry is their smallest Guilt.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1741 ed.)

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2025-03-14

Draconian silencing attempt by Zuggerfugger's legal team gets Sarah Wynn-Williams prohibited from promoting her new autobiography of working as a PR flack for #Meta . Amongst the details she reveals are insider notes on CEO Zuggrfkr handing over dissident data while kowtowing to #CCP officials to get a #Facebook footprint in #China.

While the #Facistbook memoir remains on sale, the author herself is prohibited from engaging in constitutionally protected #FreeSpeech such as promoting or discussing the work, but the publisher is still free to promote it without her help.

#Trumptarded anti-freespeech #flunkies at Meta hailed court move from Palo Alto #PR HQ saying "ruling affirms that [the] false and #defamatory book should never have been published."

Oddly enough, the thin skinned legal muzzling, which was issued by an "Emergency Arbitrator" named Nicholas Gowen in Illinois will likely only draw more eyes to the title...

The #StreisandEffect is real and shows the title ""Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism"" gaining on must read lists across the globe...

The publisher, Flatiron Books issued its own statement: "We are appalled by Meta's tactics to #silence our author through the use of a non-disparagement clause in a severance agreement...The book went through a thorough editing and vetting process, and we remain committed to publishing important books such as this."

wapo.st/4hvqh3V

wizcase.com/news/meta-obtains-

futurism.com/facebook-stop-boo

law360.com/technology/articles

cnbc.com/2025/03/12/arbitrator

read.macmillan.com/fib/careles

Colin from Edinburgh.photoncollector
2024-11-23

It really doesn't matter who picks to be his departmental
The roles are largely ceremonial and necessary only to give the population the comfortable illusion of having a .

The does not have a government.

It has a cabal of useless individuals scrabbling for whatever they can get.

Behind them is Trump, and behind Trump are the people with the real power.

They have the power because they have the money.

Jeanine Reutemannjeanine@social.tchncs.de
2022-12-09

#flunkies #goons #ducttapers #taskmasters - Ok, i think it's time to deep-dive into #bullshitjobs from #davidgraeber during holiday. #systemchangenow

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