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Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ParadeGrotesque" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ParadeGrotesque</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcSlibinas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mcSlibinas</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@Gustodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Gustodon</span></a></span> </p><p>yes, absolutely correct</p><p>the problem is that there is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cynicism</span></a> as defined in philosophy, scholarly discipline</p><p>and cynicism as defined loosely in every day use</p><p>this is always a problem with broadly defined words with overlapping meanings depending upon context</p><p>example:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libertarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libertarianism</span></a></p><p>in the 1800s sense, it is defined as social freedom</p><p>but today, at least in the usa, libertarianism is kissing plutocrat ass and asking them to take more money from you</p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcSlibinas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mcSlibinas</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@Gustodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Gustodon</span></a></span></p><p>i think <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/realism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>realism</span></a> can be defined as nothing more than <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/idealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idealism</span></a> shaped by experience</p><p>you still aim to the good goal</p><p>but now you know the road is not simple</p><p>so you continue towards the good goal, but you get there with the tools that adversity taught you, which can be called <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cynicism</span></a></p><p>cynicism (as a personality, not as a tool as you say and i agree) is sitting down on the side of the road and giving up. cynicism as a personality is giving in to adversity, a failure mode</p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@FrancoisPrague" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>FrancoisPrague</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcSlibinas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mcSlibinas</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Daojoan</span></a></span></p><p>exactly</p><p>1. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/idealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idealism</span></a> is a form of failure. which is not a condemnation of idealistic people. we all start out as idealists in life</p><p>2. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cynicism</span></a>, as idealism's mirror image, is also a failure. it's what naturally follows from step 1 because of inevitable adversity</p><p>3. maturity is using idealistic thoughts to guide you, but filtering it through what cynicism teaches:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/realism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>realism</span></a></p><p>the problem is people stuck on step 1/ 2</p><p>all of us should strive to reach step 3</p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Daojoan</span></a></span></p><p>👏👏👏</p><p>the worst is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cynicism</span></a> about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a></p><p>cynicism is acceptance, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prematureCapitulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prematureCapitulation</span></a></p><p>cynicism is malice and abuse that you've internalized</p><p>it doesn't mean you try the same crap that didn't work before</p><p>but it means you try something</p><p>always, forever</p><p>that's not crazy</p><p>that's just life</p><p>there is always adversity</p><p>you must always deal with it</p><p>the worst you can do is shrink from it and yield to it</p><p>be a happy warrior</p><p>10,000 arrows incoming?</p><p>smile and move forward</p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/frederick-ii-the-great/8832/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Frederick the Great</b></a></p><blockquote>The more I see of people, the more I love my dog.<br>&nbsp;<br><i>[Je mehr ich von den Menschen sehe, um so lieber habe ich meinen Hund.]</i></blockquote><p><b>Frederick II</b> (1712-1786) King of Prussia (a.k.a. Frederick the Great)<br>(Attributed)</p> <p>Sourcing, extensive notes: <a href="https://wist.info/frederick-ii-the-great/8832/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/frederick-ii-the-gre…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=frederickthegreat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>frederickthegreat</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cynicism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=dogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dogs</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=humannature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humannature</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=humans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humans</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=love" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>love</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=misanthropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>misanthropy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=people" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>people</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=objectofaffection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>objectofaffection</span></a></p>
SPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre<p><a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a>’s decades of constant promises that it has no plans to invade—while constantly invading—are just the surface of the extraordinary <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cynicism</span></a> of the Russian colonial model.</p><p>Denying it will invade is only one layer. Even while invading, Russia claims it isn’t, because the territory it has attacked is supposedly “Russia.” All the killing, they say, is merely an internal matter.</p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@bouriquet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bouriquet</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@draNgNon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>draNgNon</span></a></span> </p><p>north korea has elections too</p><p>obviously <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> is in peril, but that's no reason to capitulate prematurely out of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cynicism</span></a></p><p>voting is merely a realm of a larger battle</p><p>you participate because a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vote</span></a> shifts the battle lines</p><p>"but i want perfection now so i'm not voting" like an airhead makes the struggle harder</p><p>you move in a direction, you don't stand on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/toxicIdealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>toxicIdealism</span></a></p><p>it's not romantic, it's pragmatic</p><p>or, don't vote</p><p>now we're even more fucked</p>
Sean Murthy<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/pretzel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pretzel</span></a>, probably:</p><p>1. Let's tie breadstick in a knot and call it pretzel.<br>2. Let's make pretzels tiny and sell them in bags as snack.<br>3. Let's enlarge the pretzel snack and sell them in pairs.</p><p>(picture taken at an Austrian supermarket)</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/speculation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>speculation</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/joke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>joke</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/sarcasm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sarcasm</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cynicism</span></a></p>
Ted Johnson<p>New Song! "The Price" — About that loudly uninformed, cynical guy who rants about politics but refuses to learn anything. Or all of those guys.</p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/28hpkh9f" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/28hpkh9f</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cynicism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Songwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Songwriting</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HalfHeartedFanatic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HalfHeartedFanatic</span></a></p>
Kyiv Independent Daily Headlines<p><strong>Monday, June 16, 2025</strong></p> <p>Russian strike targets Boeing office in Kyiv in deliberate attack on US business, FT reports — With no new US aid packages on the horizon, can Ukraine continue to fight Russia? — Ukrainian agents cause millions in damage during secret sabotage operation in Russia — ‘Spit in face’ — Zelensky condemns Russia’s mass attack, dismisses idea of Putin as peacemaker … and more</p> <p><a href="https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/monday-june-16-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025</span><span class="invisible">/06/monday-june-16-2025/</span></a></p>
🇪🇷Götterdämmerung<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Daojoan</span></a></span> Had the pleasure of reading this. Especially the library metaphor. It's Borges' Library of Babel but via the anxiety-ridden soul of a millennial with carpal tunnel from doomscrolling. </p><p>The diagnosis is correct but the patient isn't ill. They adapted. What you describe isn't a malfunction of consciousness in the digital age. It is consciousness in the digital age. Welcome to the post-critical subject, the homo insincerus of late modernity. <br><a href="https://glitch.social/tags/cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cynicism</span></a><br><a href="https://glitch.social/tags/cynicalreason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cynicalreason</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/ivins-molly/76537/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Molly Ivins</b></a></p><blockquote>Being a cynic is so contemptibly easy. If you let yourself think that nothing you’re working on is ever going to make any difference, why bust your tail over it? Why care? If you’re a cynic, you don’t have to invest anything in your work. No effort, no pride, no compassion, no sense of excellence, nothing.</blockquote><p><b>Molly Ivins</b> (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]<br>Essay (1973-01), “Pitfalls of Reporting in the Lone Star State,” <i>Houston Journalism Review</i></p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/ivins-molly/76537/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/ivins-molly/76537/</a>\</p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=mollyivins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mollyivins</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cynicism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=effort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>effort</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=engagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engagement</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=investment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>investment</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=makingadifference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>makingadifference</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quality</span></a></p>
Kyiv Independent Daily Headlines<p><strong>Monday, May 5, 2025</strong></p> <p>Ukraine reportedly attacks Russian Strela electromechanical plant in Bryansk Oblast — US to send refurbished Patriot air defense system from Israel to Ukraine — Czech initiative to deliver up to 1.8 million shells to Ukraine in 2025 — [vblog] Tortured journalist and Russia’s intensified assaults: Ukraine This Week … and more</p> <p><a href="https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/monday-may-5-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025</span><span class="invisible">/05/monday-may-5-2025/</span></a></p>
Wisdom in Space<p>If all the secrets of adulthood, including sex, illness and death, are opened to children; cynicism, apathy or arrogance replace curiosity for them, short-circuiting education and moral development.<br> -- Neil Postman (The Disappearance of Childhood)</p><p>⬆ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wisdom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NeilPostman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeilPostman</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Apathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apathy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arrogance</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cynicism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Television" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Television</span></a></p><p>⬇ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Panorama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panopainting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Panopainting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kayaks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kayaks</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Everglades" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Everglades</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a></p>
Ham on Wry<p>My friends say that I’ve become less cynical with age. I tell them that they can thank Mastodon for that.</p><p>Mastodon is where I dump 99% of the cynicism that I hold about politics or anything else going on in the world. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cynicism</span></a></p>
Kyiv Independent Daily Headlines<p><strong>Sunday, April 27 2025</strong></p> <p>Russia attacked Chornobyl Nuclear Plant in February, damaging confinement. Can it be fully restored? — US signals support for Europe’s peacekeeping coalition in Ukraine — Russia training to integrate motorcycles into summer offensive in Ukraine — Interpol investigates Russian company for human trafficking over African workers in Tatarstan drone factory … and more</p> <p><a href="https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/04/sunday-april-27-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025</span><span class="invisible">/04/sunday-april-27-2025/</span></a></p>
Sean Murthy<p>"Where there are two Signal chats with the same unauthorized information, there's often a third Signal chat with the same information. Plus a clear text message or mail in due time."</p><p>Ancient infosec proverb. 🪷</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infosec</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SignalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SignalGate</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/proverb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>proverb</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wisdom</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cynicism</span></a></p>
Bohemian Peasant<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hard.blue/@seatek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>seatek</span></a></span> </p><p>It’s hard for me to understand the massive amount of public sector <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/CORRUPTION" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CORRUPTION</span></a> that Americans think is acceptable. </p><p>Why do so many people consider <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/bribery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bribery</span></a>, <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fraud</span></a>, <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/selfdealing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfdealing</span></a>, <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/graft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>graft</span></a>, and other <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/corrupt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corrupt</span></a> actions by the regime and its supporters to be okay? Is it just widespread <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cynicism</span></a> or something else?</p><p>Why are people not outraged anymore about the <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/dishonesty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dishonesty</span></a> of public servants?</p><p><a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/publiccorruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publiccorruption</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a></p>
john rakestraw<p>They would push us toward <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cynicism</span></a>. “There is a reason why current authoritarians, as they did in the mid-20th century, deliberately cultivate widespread cynicism with their indifference to reason and reality: it keeps the political field clear of challengers.”</p><p>—Lyndsey Stonebridge, “We are free to change the world: Hannah Arendt’s lessons in love and disobedience.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PostTruth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PostTruth</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
RowinSpeez<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tenforward.social/@gareth" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gareth</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@Fragarach" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Fragarach</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@kibcol1049" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kibcol1049</span></a></span> If you think these people who paid millions of dollars and burned all their social capital supporting Trump aren’t hedging their bets and profiting off options trading, which requires zero transfer of ownership, you’re going to be disappointed.</p><p>This shit is their whole grift, the only ones upset about it are regular people and ones that miss the trade cues for maximum profit. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cynicism</span></a></p>
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