kctiptonFeb 10
In Trump's push to punish and desecrate, a rejection of King David – The Forward https://forward.com/opinion/804211/trump-renee-good-king-david/ "In our modern U.S., we must ask: What would have happened if David had responded to Nathan’s story by digging his heels in? If he had tried to blame Bathsheba’s dead husband or desecrate his memory, would that make what Nathan did futile or unimportant?" #religion #ethics #Trump #KingDavid #shame #shamelessness
In Trump's instinct to punish and desecrate, a rejection of the values of King David

President Trump's supporters sometimes compare him to King David. His response to tragedies like Renee Good's death shows they're not alike.

The Forward
André OurednikJan 31
What makes Trump unusual, is the synthesis of Berlusconi's #shamelessness, Andrew Jackson's #grievance (election fraud obsession), Napoleon III's institutional #vandalism (in the name of "people against system"), Longian #clientelism, Chavista #polarization, George Wallace-style cultural #backlash, P.T. Barnum's #hoax culture, Caligula's murderous #arbitrariness, Nero's #narcissism, and Mussolini's corporate strongman aesthetics. Compound into a single organism sustained by #X and #FoxNews
Mix Mistress Alice💄Jan 15

"Paddy O'Connell speaks to so-called 'rock star' philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek, who argues the case for a more “authoritarian” left-leaning leader on the global stage."

A new age of shamelessness" | Slavoj Žižek on Trump, authoritarians and "the new left" >

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx_J1MgokV4

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"A new age of shamelessness" | Slavoj Žižek on Trump, authoritarians and "the new left"

YouTube
WIST Quotations Has Moved!Nov 20

A quotation from Moliere

   DON JUAN: It’s no longer shameful to be a dissembler; hypocrisy is now a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtues.
 
   [DON JUAN: Il n’y a plus de honte maintenant à cela ; l’hypocrisie est un vice à la mode, et tous les vices à la mode passent pour vertus.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Don Juan [Dom Juan], Act 5, sc. 2 (1665) [tr. Wilbur (2001)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/moliere/80407/

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Don Juan [Dom Juan], Act 5, sc. 2 (1665) [tr. Wilbur (2001)] - Moliere | WIST Quotations

DON JUAN: It's no longer shameful to be a dissembler; hypocrisy is now a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtues. [DON JUAN: Il n’y a plus de honte maintenant à cela ; l’hypocrisie est un vice à la mode, et tous les vices à la mode passent…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Nov 13

A quotation from Moliere

   SGANARELLE: Have you no fears about returning here? It was here, Sir, that you killed that Commander, six months ago.
   DON JUAN: Why should I be afraid? Didn’t I kill him properly?
 
   [SGANARELLE: Et n’y craignez-vous rien, monsieur, de la mort de ce commandeur que vous tuâtes il y a six mois?
   DON JUAN: Et pourquoi craindre? ne l’ai-je pas bien tué?]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Don Juan [Dom Juan], Act 1, sc. 2 (1665) [tr. Wilbur (2001)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/moliere/80359/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #donjuan #dueling #fear #killing #propriety #remorse #selfrighteousness #shamelessness

Don Juan [Dom Juan], Act 1, sc. 2 (1665) [tr. Wilbur (2001)] - Moliere | WIST Quotations

SGANARELLE: Have you no fears about returning here? It was here, Sir, that you killed that Commander, six months ago. DON JUAN: Why should I be afraid? Didn't I kill him properly? [SGANARELLE: Et n’y craignez-vous rien, monsieur, de la mort de ce commandeur que vous tuâtes il y a…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 24

A quotation from Ben Franklin

To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1742 ed.)

More info about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/79…

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Poor Richard (1742 ed.) - Franklin, Benjamin | WIST Quotations

To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish. See Pope (1711)

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N-gated Hacker NewsAug 18, 2025
🎭✨ "Shamelessness as a strategy" is essentially a life hack for aspiring Merlins who fancy themselves as board game savants. 🤔🃏 Who knew that the path to success was paved with pretending to be less clueless than others? 🤷‍♂️
https://nadia.xyz/shameless #Shamelessness #LifeHack #BoardGameStrategy #AspiringMerlins #SuccessMindset #HackerNews #ngated
Shamelessness as a strategy

I’ve enjoyed playing a game called Avalon recently. I won’t go too far into the rules, but it’s a hidden role game in the vein of Secret Hitler or Werewolf, where one team is “good”, trying to uncover who among them is “evil”, before the evil team wins.

Nadia Asparouhova
Hacker NewsAug 18, 2025

Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)

https://nadia.xyz/shameless

#HackerNews #Shamelessness #Strategy #2019 #Tech #Culture #HackerNews #Innovation

Shamelessness as a strategy

I’ve enjoyed playing a game called Avalon recently. I won’t go too far into the rules, but it’s a hidden role game in the vein of Secret Hitler or Werewolf, where one team is “good”, trying to uncover who among them is “evil”, before the evil team wins.

Nadia Asparouhova
WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jul 10, 2025

A quotation from Cicero

Although fear was turning you into a good citizen, fear is only in the short term a teacher of duty; and that unscrupulousness of yours, which never deserts you so long as you are not afraid, has turned you into a scoundrel.
 
[Quamquam bonum te timor faciebat, non diuturnus magister officii, improbum fecit ea, quae, dum timor abest, a te non discedit, audacia.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 36 / sec. 90 (2.36/2.90) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. Berry (2006)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Mar 1, 2025

A quotation from Twain

It is my belief that no crime, however cowardly and however shameless and cruel, can be imagined which there isn’t somebody in Christendom willing to commit.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Autobiographical Dictation (1908-06-26)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/twain-mark/75290/

#quote #quotes #quotation #Christianity #cowardice #crime #cruelty #religion #shamelessness #evil #immorality #vice