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2026-04-26 04:37 UTC
@peterjriley2024@mastodon.social @Cloudslave@aus.social Ambrose Beirce updated that, saying: "Patriotism is the first refuge of the scoundrel".
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@peterjriley2024@mastodon.social 2026-04-26 04:48
@kauer@aus.social @Cloudslave@aus.social Yes K Thanks Patriotism noun Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. —Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary