• Marxism-Fennekinism
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    41 year ago

    Any organisation that needs to remind themselves not to be evil is already intrinsically evil.

    • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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      71 year ago

      Very overtly and loudly claiming a quality which should be self-evident in oneself, one’s company or one’s nation invariably means it’s not really there.

        • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          “The Greatest Democracy In The World” - Lots of US politicians, including those activelly engaged in gerrymandering and passing vote supression laws.

          The dictum, supposedly from Einstein, about only the universe and human stupidity being infinite, needs to be ammended to include hypocrisy.

          • @Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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            1 year ago

            The country with the most Freedom™*

            *Freedom™ must be redeemed in Freedom™ tokens; sufficient Freedom™ tokens entitles you to trample others’ Freedom™; insufficient Freedom™ tokens entitles you to die in the gutter