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Mark Lansbury

The Greatest Threat Posed by Trump

In the upside-down world of #MAGA morality, vice is virtue and virtue is vice. My colleague Jane Coaston even coined a term, “vice signaling,” to describe how Trump’s core supporters convey their tribal allegiance. They’re often deliberately rude, transgressive or otherwise unpleasant, just to demonstrate how little they care about conventional moral norms.

Absent public virtue, a republic can fall. And a Trump win in 2024 would absolutely convince countless Americans that virtue is for suckers, and vice is the key to victory.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/opinion/donald-trump-culture-decline.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk0.RRW3.7A62oybsG1pN

#America #Trump #immoral #dictatorship #vice #Election2024

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wist@diasp.org
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A quotation from Pratchett, Terry

“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”

“It’s a lot more complicated than that –”

“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes –”

“But they starts with thinking about people as things …”

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Carpe Jugulum [Granny Weatherwax, Rev. Mightily Oats] (1998)

#quote #quotes #quotation #dehumanization #evil #sin #objectification #vice #fundamentals #immorality #othering #people #simplicity
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Carpe Jugulum [Granny Weatherwax, Rev. Mightily Oats] (1998) - Pratchett, Terry | WIST Quotations

"And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is." "It's a lot more complicated than that --" "No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting...

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guillaume_f@diaspora.psyco.fr
Guillaume F

[Vice] Die neuen Gabber – Hardcore never dies

Un beau film documentaire hollandais sous-titré en allemand, qui parle de la scène techno hardcore aux Pays-Bas, en s’intéressant particulièrement aux personnes qui écoutent ce style de musique, en faisant leur connaissance, en nous présentant leur histoire personnelle, en expliquant la place que le hardcore a eu (par exemple, dans le fait de lutter contre un cancer ou un mal-être) ou a encore dans leur vie. (durée 47 minutes)

Glatzen, Trainingsanzüge, große Pupillen und 180 BPM, das war Gabber in den 90ern. Was als Undergroundbewegung begann, wurde aber bald vom Mainstream kooptiert und erstickte dann schließlich an seiner eigenen Beliebtheit. Aber ganz ließ sich Hardcore nie verdrängen – und ist heute wieder zurück.
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Die niederländischen Raver Gabbahontaz, Earlyvenus und DJ Dissoactive bezeichnen sich alle als Gabber. Sie alle haben ihre eigene Sicht auf die Entwicklung der Hardcore-Szene von der Blütezeit in den Neunzigern bis heute.
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Wir folgen diesen drei jungen Gabbern im Vorfeld des Hardcore-Festivals Ground Zero in den Niederlanden. Der Dokumentarfilm unserer Kollegen in Amsterdam zeichnet ein Bild der lebendigen Hardcore-Subkultur durch die persönlichen Geschichten dieser ‘neuen Gabber’.

#Hardcore #Gabber #NeuenGabber #Netherland #Nederland #Niederland #german #Deutsch #Techno #HardTechno #Music #Musik #Vice #ViceAufDeutsch #180BPM #Hardcore #TechnoHardcore #Frenchcore #Uptempo #Thunderdome #GroundZero #Dominator #Qlimax #Festival #Rave #Raver #Teuf #Teuffeur #FreeParty #RotterdamTerrorCorps #Neophyte #DJKorsakoff #Angerfist #ThaPlayah #Ophidian #Dissoactive #DrPeacock #ArteTracks

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HU Art Sound

The Cuck Obsession Has Cucked Our Brains

Whether it's jokes about Jeff Bezos and his fiancé or the endless “masculinity” memes, we've endured the cucking discourse for far too long.

For the last several years, to be a cuck has had little to do with your sexual proclivities or those of your partner. It has instead been a sort of energy: Being cucked is about being spiritually and philosophically submissive, resigning your values to some dominating ideological or cultural force, and telling yourself you like it. The threat of being cucked no longer comes down to whether your wife would cheat on you—now, the risk of anyone being cucked is near-constant. And as these recent weeks have made clear, we can’t get that idea off our minds.

Last week, the cuck conversation took two forms. The first was through a viral illustration of a line of naked men all waiting to have sex with a single woman. Among all these naked men is one man in a suit, holding a bouquet of flowers. It circulated via a masculinity and dating-centric Twitter account with over 200,000 followers called “The Man Maker,” who shared the image saying, “Ignoring her past will ruin your future.” Just two days later, the account posted it again, edited so that the line appears to extend into infinity, the woman at the end no longer even visible. “You can’t keep a woman who belongs to the streets,” the caption said. “I didn’t make these rules, nature did.” ...

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#cuck #cucking #masculinity #vice #vicenews

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faab64@diasp.org
Farhad A

Vice Media Headed For Bankruptcy

📌 Vice, the brash digital-media disrupter that charmed giants like #Disney and #Fox into investing before a stunning crash-landing, is preparing to file for bankruptcy, according to two people with knowledge of its operations.

📌 The filing could come in the coming weeks, according to three people familiar with the matter who weren’t authorized to discuss the potential bankruptcy on the record.

📌 The company has been looking for a buyer, and still might find one, to avoid declaring bankruptcy. More than five companies have expressed interest in acquiring Vice, according to a person briefed on the discussions. The chances of that, however, are growing increasingly slim, said one of the people with knowledge of the potential bankruptcy.

📌 A bankruptcy filing would be a bleak coda to the tumultuous story of Vice, a new-media interloper that sought to supplant the media establishment before persuading it to invest hundreds of millions of dollars. In 2017, after a funding round from the private-equity firm TPG, Vice was worth $5.7 billion. But today, by most accounts, it’s worth a tiny fraction of that.

📌 In the event of a bankruptcy, Vice’s largest debtholder, Fortress Investment Group, could end up controlling the company, said one of the people. Vice would continue operating normally and run an auction to sell the company over a 45-day period, with Fortress in pole position as the most likely acquirer.

#vice #Media #Bakruptcy #Politics #Economy #US

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/business/media/vice-bankruptcy.html

Vice Is Said to Be Headed for Bankruptcy

The company, which was once valued at $5.7 billion, has been struggling to find a buyer this year.

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WIST

A quotation from La Bruyere

Men don’t so much blush for their Crimes, as for their Weaknesses and Vanity.

[Les hommes rougissent moins de leurs crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanité.]

Jean de La Bruyère (1645-1696) French essayist, moralist
The Characters [Les Caractères], _ch. 4 “Of the Heart _[Du Coeur],” § 74 (4.74) (1688) [Bullord ed. (1696)]

#quote #quotes #quotation #blushing #crime #failing #shame #sin #vanity #vice #weakness
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The Characters [Les Caractères], ch. 4 "Of the Heart [Du Coeur]," § 74 (4.74) (1688) [Bullord ed. (1696)] - La Bruyere, Jean de | WIST

Men don't so much blush for their Crimes, as for their Weaknesses and Vanity. (Source (French)). Alternate translations: Men blush not so much for their

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