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#hypocrisy

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Michael Fenichel<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>georgetakei</span></a></span> </p><p>"You betcha!"™️</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GQP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GQP</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpVirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpVirus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> knows no bounds for indecency and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a>, not to mention <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hypocrisy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hypocrisy</span></a> - "like nobody's seen before".</p>

The more I read and think, the more I'm convinced there's only one unforgivable sin (with many variations): hypocrisy.
If you read the gospels it 's the only sin Jesus did not forgave, and on the contrary he cursed those who lived with that sin, the Pharisees. It took seventy years for the curse to come real, but then the Pharisees and the Temple disappeared.

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

Is it desirable that all should be exactly alike in their religious convictions? Is any such thing possible? Do we not know that there are no two persons alike in the whole world? No two, trees, no two leaves, no two anythings that are alike? Infinite diversity is the law. Religion tries to force all minds into one mould. Knowing that all cannot believe, the church endeavors to make all say they believe. She longs for the unity of hypocrisy, and detests the splendid diversity of individuality and freedom.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious Society

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

WIST Quotations · Lecture (1873-12) "Individuality," Chicago Free Religious Society - Ingersoll, Robert Green | WIST QuotationsIs it desirable that all should be exactly alike in their religious convictions? Is any such thing possible? Do we not know that there are no two persons alike in the whole world? No two, trees, no two leaves, no two anythings that are alike? Infinite diversity is the law.…
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I DESPISE #Hypocrisy & #hypocrites, and the #GOP is rife with them.

Jen pointed out last night after #PedoDon met with AG #BlondieBondi (as well as #JV #Vance and #Patel) to discuss "his #Epstein Problem", how the #Right went berserk in 2016 when Bill Clinton met with AG Loretta Lynch (while they were accusing Hillary of mishandling #ClassifiedDocs.) 😉 #GOPHypocrisy
msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-je

MSNBC · BUSTED: Weasel words fail to hide Vance, Bondi, Patel at damage control meetingBy MSNBC

"... all classes aid and abet the truly pious hypocrite, provided his hypocrisy be strictly consistent. With equal delightsomeness, all creeds, no matter how absurd, just now obtain some kind of a hearing."

-- The Silver Domino; Or, Side Whispers, Social and Literary

#quote#satire#book

#House #Oversight Cmte Chair #JamesComer issued numerous #subpoenas on Tues -- including one to the #DOJ for the COMPLETE #JeffreyEpstein files & another for #depositions w/ President #BillClinton & fmr Secy of #State #HillaryClinton.

Comer said he wants the DOJ to turn over the "full, complete, unredacted Epstein Files" on or before Aug. 19.

[note they’re subpoenaing #Democrats, glaringly absent—of course—is #Trump despite him hosting Epstein parties]

#law #hypocrisy
abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-

ABC News · House Oversight Committee issues subpoenas for Epstein filesBy Lauren Peller

Samuel Sewall was a Boston Puritan businessman, judge, and author in the late 1600s-early 1700s.
Two of his books had, let's say, unusual flaws:

1. The Selling of Joseph, which was one of the first anti-slavery tracts ever published in North America. "All men have equal right unto liberty," he said - including enslaved Africans and the generally-mistreated Native Americans. So far so good!
BUT ... Sewell continued to sell kidnapped Africans for another 30 years from his warehouse in Boston. He even ran advertisements for them.

🧵 1/2

So a Belgian court has ordered to block access to Anna's Archive, Libgen, OceanofPDF, Z-Library, and the Internet Archive's Open Library (torrentfreak.com/belgium-targe).
Yet the Belgian government, including the judicial branch are actively developing projects using AI, a.o. trained on Anna’s archive & Libgen, to help automate work (e.g. agoria.be/nl/diensten/expertis).

So what will it be: is it illegal or is it legal (also for derived products)?

torrentfreak.comBelgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order (Update) * TorrentFreakA Belgian court ordered intermediaries to block access to major shadow libraries, including the Internet Archive's Open Library.
#AI#belgium#legal

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

For behind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence the doubt that anyone is responsible or could be expected to answer for what he has done. The moment moral issues are raised, even in passing, he who raises them will be confronted with this frightful lack of self-confidence and hence of pride, and also with a kind of mock-modesty that in saying, Who am I to judge? actually means We’re all alike, equally bad, and those who try, or pretend that they try, to remain halfway decent are either saints or hypocrites, and in either case should leave us alone.

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/43944/

Never again has turned into never mind.

Disgusting hypocrisy of the world ignoring Israeli made famine in Gaza and refusal to call an end to the immoral and illegal genocide in Gaza.

All of a sudden celebrities are posting "let in the aid" while ignoring who is behind it and call for an end of occupation. This is "all eyes on Rafah" all over again.

A stupid riding the popular trend by ignoring the 21 months of Israeli/American genocide.
#Hypocrisy
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel