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Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social · Feb 03, 2023
“Mass #propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in #cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.” ― Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" #quotes #mediaStudies #commOdon #truth #agnotology #history
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benroyce
⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce) @benroyce@mastodon.social · Jul 14, 2026
Boosted by Trending Bot @trending@homestead.social
#ICE kills another person This time in #Maine 😩😔 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/biddeford-maine-ice-investigation-fatal-shooting-rcna587279 #SusanCollin's office is swarmed with #protesters chanting "vote her out" YES! They get it! This is how we fix it This is why we're even in this predicament: people didn't vote Fuck you and your fucking #perfectionism Fuck you and your fucking #cynicism You have blood on your hands. You are to blame for these deaths as much as #MAGA if you did not vote, do not vote #VOTE you fucking whiny useless motherfuckers
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Nairolf Slednib @slednibnairolf@mastodon.social · Jul 04, 2026
"He has the most who is most content with the least." - Diogenes of Sinope (aprox. 412 BC to 323 BC) Diogenes lived in Athens during the shift toward Hellenism. He rejected social conventions and material wealth, famously living in a ceramic jar to demonstrate true freedom through self-sufficiency. Source: Diogenes Laërtius (compiled via Google Gemini) #GreatThinkers #philosophy #cynicism #diogenes #freedom #history #wisdom
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benroyce
⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce) @benroyce@mastodon.social · Jun 02, 2026
Replying to @UnassumingKiwiReborn@kolektiva.social
@UnassumingKiwiReborn@kolektiva.social so what i argue for is taking over the #democraticParty from the #left the #Mamdani template this confuses people fake leftists, who do not argue for an ideologically #leftist position, but merely vibe mindless #cynicism and #toxicIdealism- not #voting therefore helping #MAGA, assume, because i ask for a #vote, that i am a corporatist shitlib meanwhile, shitlibs think i am one of their own because i say "vote", when i despise the #DNC #democrats do not lie about me
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ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES @benroyce__dup_2975@mastodon.social · Feb 26, 2026
Boosted by Greg Bell @ferrix@mastodon.online
"#Hungary's opposition #Tisza party widens its lead ahead of #Orban's #Fidesz" 🤞 🤞 🤞 If Hungary goes sane in April, and then if enough of the lazy entitled lumps in the #USA show up to #vote in November (after showing up in the #primaries to get real left candidates: BE THERE), then we can put a real dent on our emergent #fascism Fuck your #cynicism VOTE Let's do this, "degenerate Westoids" 🤭
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