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[?]WIST Quotations » 🌐
@wistquotes@friendica.world

A quotation from Twain

Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government, and earthly despotism would be the absolute perfect earthly government if the conditions were the same; namely the despot the perfectest individual of the human race, and his lease of life perpetual; but as a perishable, perfect man must die and leave his despotism in the hands of an imperfect successor, an earthly despotism is not merely a bad form of government, it is the worst form that is possible.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 10 “Beginnings of Civilization”

More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/85346/

    [?]Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ » 🌐
    @persagen@mastodon.social

    🇨🇦 Christofascist white nationalism - MAGA Premier Danielle Smith Goes Full MAGA Right Wing on Hate Speech
    thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/08/07/

    Electoral Manipulation in Canada: Alberta's Democracy Under Siege
    blog.persagen.org/alberta-elec

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    mastodon.social/@persagen/1141

    💰️ Capitalism: Malignant Tumor
    blog.Persagen.org/capitalism_c

    Wealth <--> protects <--> power

    vs.#DemocraticSocialism

      [?]WIST Quotations » 🌐
      @wistquotes@friendica.world

      A quotation from Frederick Douglass

      Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation (as embodied in the two great political parties), is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen. You hurl your anathemas at the crowned headed tyrants of Russia and Austria, and pride yourselves on your Democratic institutions, while you yourselves consent to be the mere tools and body-guards of the tyrants of Virginia and Carolina.

      Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
      Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York

      More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…

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        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
        @Nonilex@masto.ai

        claimed he would 'bring free speech back” [but seriously, let’s be real, it was always his version of ] - yet Judges have ruled in 75 cases that he has stifled the .


        reuters.com/legal/government/t

          [?]WIST Quotations » 🌐
          @wistquotes@friendica.world

          A quotation from Diderot

          And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails,
          For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
           
          [Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre,
          Au défaut d’un cordon pour étrangler les rois.]

          Denis Diderot (1713-1784) French editor, philosopher
          Poem (1772), “Les Éleuthéromanes”

          Much more about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/diderot-denis/6524/

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            [?]anti-tyranny Linuxian » 🌐
            @Anonymous_But_FOSS@toot.community

            EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

            daily.dev/posts/eu-age-verific

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              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
              @Nonilex@masto.ai

              What a petulant man-baby!

              Furious is considering removing Pirro over filing

              How dare she go on facts & evidence instead of blindly arguing his unfounded batshit crazy ?!


              cnn.com/2026/08/03/politics/je

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                [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                @Nonilex@masto.ai

                seekers could be sent directly to under new federal rule
                
The admin rule, which took effect immediately, could transfer nearly 450,000 cases to “judges” [immigration judges are part of the not the ], who could dismiss the asylum petitions.


                washingtonpost.com/immigration

                  [?]WIST Quotations » 🌐
                  @wistquotes@friendica.world

                  A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

                  Will we ever learn to use reason instead of force in the world, and will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

                  Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
                  Column (1939-10-16), “My Day”

                  More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/60…

                    [?]WIST Quotations » 🌐
                    @wistquotes@friendica.world

                    A quotation from Montesquieu

                    The gods […] have attached to liberty almost as many misfortunes as to servitude.
                     
                    [Les dieux […] ont attaché à la liberté presque autant de malheurs qu’à la servitude.]

                    Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
                    Essay (1724-02), “Dialogue of Sulla and Eucrates [Dialogue de Sylla et d’Eucrate] [Sulla], Mercure de France [tr. Carrithers / Stewart (2020)]

                    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/85165/

                      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                      @Nonilex@masto.ai

                      Substance in van was NOT drugs, district attorney’s office says testing confirms


                      cnn.com/2026/07/24/us/houston-

                        [?]WIST Quotations » 🌐
                        @wistquotes@friendica.world

                        A quotation from Abigail Adams

                        I long to hear that you have declared an independancy — and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.

                        Abigail Adams (1744-1818) American correspondent, First Lady (1797-1801)
                        Letter (1776-03-31) to John Adams

                        More about this quote: wist.info/adams-abigail/29421/

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                          [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                          @Nonilex@masto.ai

                          In case there was any doubt, is fully condoning the by .

                          Federal Agents Were Told Will No Longer Investigate ICE “Confrontations”

                          Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.


                          nytimes.com/2026/07/19/us/poli

                            [?]Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ » 🌐
                            @persagen@mastodon.social

                            Companies invariably incentivize greed / profit - not the public / common good - regardless of front-facing statements and policies.

                            Capitalism is the cancer destroying societies / planet Earth.

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                            Wealth <--> protects <--> power

                            : military, prison, poverty ...
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                            Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = anthropogenic climate change

                              [?]Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ » 🌐
                              @persagen@mastodon.social

                              🇺🇲 U.S. military machine destroying our planet
                              therealnews.com/abby-martin-th

                              “It’s time for you guys to wake up, because we don’t want our planet destroyed [by] your out-of-control government and military empire.” << 100x this

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                              Wealth <--> protects <--> power

                              : military, prison, poverty ...
                              vs.

                                [?]WIST Quotations » 🌐
                                @wistquotes@friendica.world

                                A quotation from Lincoln

                                Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read “all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.” When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

                                Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
                                Letter (1854-08-24) to Joshua Speed

                                More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2555…

                                  [?]WIST Quotations » 🌐
                                  @wistquotes@friendica.world

                                  A quotation from Thomas Jefferson

                                  Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

                                  Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
                                  Document (1776-07-02), “Declaration of Independence”

                                  More about this quote: wist.info/jefferson-thomas/220…

                                    [?]WIST Quotations » 🌐
                                    @wistquotes@friendica.world

                                    A quotation from E. B. White

                                    When liberty’s position is challenged, artists and writers are the ones who first take up the sword. They do so without persuasion, for the battle is peculiarly their own. In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into a panic. His is a double allegiance to freedom — an intellectual one springing from the conviction that pure thought has a right to function unimpeded, and a selfish one springing from his need, as a breadwinner, to be allowed to speak his piece.

                                    E. B. White (1899-1985) American author, critic, humorist [Elwyn Brooks White]
                                    Essay (1939-01), “One Man’s Meat,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 178

                                    More about this quote: wist.info/white-eb/84790/

                                      [?]Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ » 🌐
                                      @persagen@mastodon.social

                                      🇺🇲 Christofascism Tennessee HB754: Tracking trans folx - Extremist GOP anti-trans bill will force doctors to help create list of trans residents 🤨
                                      lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/new-ex

                                      capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Bill/

                                      Nazi's did something similar, btw

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                                      mastodon.social/@persagen/1141

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                                        [?]anti-tyranny Linuxian » 🌐
                                        @Anonymous_But_FOSS@toot.community

                                        (LEGALLY PROTECTED FREE SPEECH)

                                        California wants to implement 24/7 surveillance for every 3d printer to scan for 'guns', but the implications on privacy and offline printing are too huge. It will also monopolize 3d printer making, since only the big companies can comply. This is too much, and besides that 3d printing a gun is already illegal.

                                        ACT NOW!!!

                                        eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-c

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                                          [?]anti-tyranny Linuxian » 🌐
                                          @Anonymous_But_FOSS@toot.community

                                          "If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy."

                                          Phil Zimmermann, Creator of PGP

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                                            [?]anti-tyranny Linuxian » 🌐
                                            @Anonymous_But_FOSS@toot.community

                                            People's reaction to the age verification pandemic. names are hidden for privacy :)

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                                              [?]OCTADE » 🌐
                                              @octade@soc.octade.net

                                              The elitists plan to eliminate cash. The elimination of the penny is just one baby step in the gradual plan. The end goal is a central bank digital currency that is tied to the AI monitoring system and your social credit enforcement profile. This profile is a bludgeon to control and punish dissenters who won't bend the knee.

                                              The world rulers are playing a game of drones. Either you will serve the masters of the hive or you will be fed to their digital dragons.


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                                                [?]OCTADE » 🌐
                                                @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                This is gold. The police who arrested him would have to wear his name on their uniforms.

                                                Arrested for Telling a Cop to Shut UP-James Freeman is Suing to Rename This Texas City

                                                https://youtu.be/zyLnHzg4Xrg


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