Is it wrong, or a sign of personal failure, that I am more angry at the fucking idiots like this than I am at the people who set out to be evil? - ThreadSky

kenwhite.bsky.social • 13 days ago

Is it wrong, or a sign of personal failure, that I am
more angry at the fucking idiots like this than I am at the people who set out to be evil?

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drangundsturm.bsky.social•13 days ago

Absofuckinglutely NOT.

evil people will always exist, those who choose to be in positions of leadership and know that a thing is evil and refuse to act … might not be as evil, but they are certainly more morally culpable

drangundsturm.bsky.social•13 days ago

I don’t know if we’re talking about the same thing, but I’m at least as angry with Chuck Schumer as I am with Donald Trump

turnitup5000db.bsky.social•13 days ago

It’s a sign that you’re also frustrated with having to suffer so many fools for so long.

todmcmanis.bsky.social•13 days ago

There’s a reason why Hannah Arendt titled her book “The Banality of Evil.”

grumblr.org•13 days ago

This is my whole attitude for Trump 2.0. The scorpions have advertised themselves for a decade.

danielnorman.net•13 days ago

Well put. At a certain point, it’s really the frog’s fault isn’t it?

sinlawyer.bsky.social•13 days ago

I’m wondering why the author was surprised at how it all played out. She chose to join a pit of vipers and is stunned when they bit her for not being viper enough.

kwierso.com•13 days ago

It’s the same as the people bleating about "why do you criticize the dems more than you do the trump administration?"

We know he and his are garbage, the dems are supposed to be better than that!

on-tannhausergate.bsky.social•13 days ago

I respect the people who are truly evil just absolute fascist garbage humans, they own it

The rest of the conservative apologists are way fucking worse and perhaps they’re just too fucking stupid and maybe I should pity them for living lives of such utter fucking stupidity

uxbrad.bsky.social•13 days ago

Something something salaries depending on not understanding

davidandrews.bsky.social•13 days ago

I tried to read this and what upsets me more then anything is that a person who purports to have graduated from all these prestigious universities - did so and remains a bad writer …

projekction.bsky.social•13 days ago

if hatin’ them is wrong, I don’t wanna be right 🎶

mmwritessf.bsky.social•13 days ago

The evil ones wouldn't succeed without all the dumb clowns to follow them. You're right to be madder at the latter.

ssorgs.bsky.social•13 days ago

If you're looking for a sign of personal failure, it's not recognizing that these fucking idiots ARE EVIL. They just have a shred of shame about what they want so they're still using lipstick.

tfg & co have put there's away.

leons1701.bsky.social•13 days ago

I'm not so sure you're drawing a distinction that actually exists.

7pillarwisdom.bsky.social•13 days ago

When UATX was started it was pretty clear what its leaders were setting out to do.

I find this outcome unsurprising.

bastillebish.bsky.social•13 days ago

It's only wrong or a personal failure to become one of these fucking idiots. You're fine.

numbcat9.bsky.social•13 days ago

Idk Dr King was pretty mad at those fucking idiots when they were in the form of the moderate faith leaders who wrote him while he was in the Birmingham Jail.

bkelsey91.bsky.social•13 days ago

"oh no, the leopards that I hung out with ate my face"

bluifyusa.bsky.social•13 days ago

how do you know they're not one and the same?

saulpanzer.bsky.social•13 days ago

Neither. I find myself consistently more angry at Susan Collins than at Ted Cruz.

qhstone.bsky.social•13 days ago

Susan Collins isn’t an idiot. But she’s found that pretending to be an idiot gets her re-elected.

saulpanzer.bsky.social•13 days ago

Exactly

4thstringer.bsky.social•13 days ago

Honestly from the first paragraph of that article, is hard to say this group isn't setting out to be evil.

chrisneyland.bsky.social•13 days ago

They’re the same people.

maggiemarbles.bsky.social•13 days ago

The ones who are in it for money are the ones who disgust me the most.

clintpup.bsky.social•13 days ago

Yes, Trump and Elon are pathological. I worry about the ones that know better and sell out for cynical reasons.

noahjnelson.com•13 days ago

At least the people who set out to be evil are being honest with themselves.

That’s respectable.

(They must be destroyed utterly, to be sure. But it’s a clean fight.)

jenebbeler.bsky.social•13 days ago

Agreed. But also, not sure how distinct the line is between these categories.

zugernat.bsky.social•13 days ago

That’s what I came here to say.

doktor-x.bsky.social•13 days ago

I read that article shaking my head the whole time. When I first heard about this school I pulled up their website, it took me 30 seconds to see it was just a far-right hack of a school.

lurkermcgoo.bsky.social•13 days ago

The failure of reasonable people, and the betrayal of allies, is always a lot more damaging (including emotionally) than the expected opposition of known enemies.

se7en-driver.bsky.social•13 days ago

What's funny to me about things like this is that these people somehow fail to learn the lesson that *every* institution (or community within an institution) will at some point develop some kind of point of view and make that apparent.

There's no opinionless utopia to escape to.

snootacamund.bsky.social•13 days ago

Märzveilchen (March violets, those that joined the Nazi party after the enabling act) were treated with contempt by those outside the party and the evil old timers within the party.

(Admittedly I can’t find whether the term is apocryphal or a neologism, but the contempt was there)

ptolemarch.bsky.social•13 days ago

I'm most concerned that Pano Kanelos's previous job was as president of my alma mater.

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