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Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-12-04

@gwynnion exactly that is a problem!

#politricks #USpol

Mason Loring Blissmason@partychickens.net
2025-11-17
Nathaniel GregoryFaithslayer202
2025-11-07

RE: mastodon.social/@Faithslayer20

People can still do more in than this Vote for the bullshit.

has no practical reason of doing this if he was running on his principles, which I believe he does or at least did held beforehand.

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-09-16

A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1848-06-20), “Internal Improvements,” US House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.

More info about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7887…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abrahamlincoln #abelincoln #lincoln #admixture #balance #goodandevil #government #greatergood #judgment #lesserevil #policy #publicpolicy

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-09-05

A quotation from George Orwell

We have become too civilised to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don’t take the sword perish by smelly diseases.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 1, New Road (1943-06)

More info about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/3043/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgeorwell #orwell #spanishcivilwar #desperation #effort #evil #fighting #lesserevil #survival #war #struggle

Nathaniel GregoryFaithslayer202
2025-08-29

If keep insisting that are binaries between two evils, one greater & one lesser, with each successive binary the becomes more evil compared to the last.

That's what for the lesser evil does: gives the mandate to flourish.

Nathaniel GregoryFaithslayer202
2025-08-29

People need to understand that saying “We need to for the ” gives the “lesser evil” carte blanche to get as evil as they like as long as they’re not quite as evil as the other guys (who'll also therefore be able to get worse & worse) cos they know you’ll still vote for them

Nathaniel GregoryFaithslayer202
2025-08-29

When they say "It could be so much worse if we don't vote for the ", what I hear is "I'm ok with other people as long as I keep my "

Nathaniel GregoryFaithslayer202
2025-08-29

I don't understand how people look at the current state of the world & still insist for the " " is a solid strategy.

As if that isn't precisely what got us here.

People do not want to be informed, they want to feel informed

F.U. 🅭…frankie@mstdn.io
2025-08-20

@liferstate @StillIRise1963
True, they aren't the same.
One interesting difference for example: if Harris were President, the US would be funding both food trucks to help Gaza, and the bombs used to blow up those trucks.
#LesserEvil

Nathaniel GregoryFaithslayer202
2025-08-20

This is true. A lot of you, all over the West, lose your fucking brains when you . "The " completely devalues your vote, it's such a simple con yet so many people had their brain fried by it...to the point where people say shit like this unironically.

Wake up!

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-08-12

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

Moreover, if we look at the techniques of totalitarian government, it is obvious that the argument of “the lesser evil” — far from being raised only from the outside by those who do not belong to the ruling elite — is one of the mechanisms built into the machinery of terror and criminality. Acceptance of lesser evils is consciously used in conditioning the government officials as well

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Essay (1964-08), “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship,” The Listener Magazine

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/arendt-hannah/45667/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #suborning #acceptance #authoritarianism #compromise #conditioning #evil #government #lesserevil #lesseroftwoevils #propaganda #totalitarianism

Nathaniel GregoryFaithslayer202
2025-08-09

I came from a partisan household, for multiple generations we voted for the , & where did that bring us? !

You keep accepting because it's not AS bad as the alternative you're just inviting more evil.

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-08-05

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

In their moral justification, the argument of the lesser evil has played a prominent role. If you are confronted with two evils, thus the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether. […] Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Essay (1964-08), “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship,” The Listener Magazine

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/arendt-hannah/45553/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #binary #brightline #choice #evil #goodandevil #lesserevil #lesseroftwoevils #morality #necessaryevil #rationalization #selfjustification

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-07-07

A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

We have to call it “freedom”: who’d die for “a lesser tyranny”?

Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 7 (1963)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/77…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #fighting #freedom #lesserevil #lesseroftwoevils #liberty #sacrifice #tyranny

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-05-26

@Greengordon @benroyce @me_valentijn @mls14 @heidilifeldman my point is that those who didn't vote under the pretense that this ain't gonna help Palestinians are #UsefulIdiots because that election wasn't just about that but because everyone knows that #Trump and his goons want a jewish ethnostate for their feverdream of Armagheddon.

  • And I kid you not, #Evangelical #Christofacists like #CUFI from the #USA's #BibleBelt outnumber Jews globally, so if any conspiracy were true (they ain't but for the sake of argument), it's that the USA is in control of Israel and not the other way around.

I know the #US system is shit, but since noone has the balls to replace it with something better, people have to choose the "#LesserEvil" and #Harris / #Waltz are that by a long shot ( I wished for #Sanders / #OcasioCortez [#AOC] but alas I never was eligible to vote and I also know both of them never had a chance cuz corporate donors hate #based candidates like them!)

harryprayivharryprayiv
2025-04-12
Ramesh #NotGoingBackrameshgupta
2025-04-04

⬆️ @northernlights

>> I haven't blocked you before because I like to nclude people with whom I disagree in my feed; I don't have to agree with everyone to think their argument may have merit.

Great policy! Mine too 😉

But…
>> ?

I haven't seen his other posts, but TBH, in this post he didn't say that ONLY the people voting for are to blame.

That and voters are ALSO to blame is obvious and implicit 🙂

Now, please put PP in a can 👍

@johnzajac

iam-py-test :unverified:iampytest1@infosec.exchange
2025-02-08

@bodhipaksa @briankrebs
Their Facebook, which was last updated in 2014 and was never used much, states they were at one time employed by LesserEvil: facebook.com/edward.coristine

They did work at LesserEvil in 2012, according to a now-deleted Facebook post: bostonglobe.com/2025/02/04/met

Their father bought LesserEvil in 2011: cnbc.com/2024/09/07/lesserevil
It's possible he hired his son when he bought the company.

Obviously, that does not mean the company or it's leadership supports them today.
Unless someone has actual evidence of their support, this is just speculation, and baseless speculation should not be enough to punish a company.
Sure, sometimes children share their parent's beliefs, but that should not be taken as an absolute. Parents certainly shouldn't automatically be held guilty of their child's crimes.

#LesserEvil

I Voted for McGoverngoatrodeo@mstdn.social
2025-02-05

Never had any #LESSEREVIL in my life, but now it will be a conscious and committed decision, a lifestyle decision. Avoiding shit made by shitty people and their feral children.
#LESSEREVILJustSayNO

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