mhoye

Re-upping this annually, as I must:

You need to internalize the idea that hypocrisy is not a meaningful accusation to the right. Of course they're hypocrites. That you are bound - by rules, standards, logic, human decency, some fundamental moral consistency, anything at all - and they are not? That is their conception of what power is, and why they seek it. So they can exercise power, without constraint, and you cannot.

That is the point.

Hypocrisy is the virtue-signaling of fascism.

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Show threadAlexanderVISep 18, 2025

@mhoye the character limit prevents me from posting the entire extract from Sartre's "Anti-Semite and Jew" but

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play."

Show threadRob IsaacSep 19, 2025
@mhoye This needs to be carved in letters of stone ten feet high, and high school graduation should require you to physically climb over it.
Show threadJustin DerrickJan 5
@mhoye I point out the hypocrisy, not because I think I can guilt the hypocrites into changing direction, but to alert others to the existence of the double standard, in the hope that they can recognize it on their own the next time it happens.
Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®Jan 5

@mhoye

YES! This! ☝️

https://inaniludibrio.com/2025/03/25/the-most-important-thing/

The Most Important Thing

The Creepy Weirdos believe that rules should only apply to others, not to themselves. They think it’s okay to treat different people differently, even when it’s not fair. The most impor…

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Show threadBill SeitzJan 5
@paninid @mhoye interesting bit on hypocrisy here: http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/DiamondAge#:~:text=hypocrisy%20was%20deemed%20the%20worst%20of%20vices
Diamond Age

Diamond Age

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Show threadLuke (Shiv)Jan 5
@mhoye You can do anything if you are willing to risk the consequences. Bullies revel in the lack of consequences.
Show threadJef PoskanzerJan 5
@mhoye Yes. Also, even if this wasn't true - and it absolutely is - accusations of hypocrisy are *lazy*. They let you say someone did wrong without needing to say which thing they did was the bad one.
Show threadVolineJan 5

@mhoye @mick_collins

"Never believe that anti‐Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti‐Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. "

— Jean-Paul Sartre. Anti-Semite and Jew (1944).

Show threadmk30Jan 5
@mhoye @nolitimere it's the "waddaya gonna do about it?" School of thought.
Show thread1a1nCJan 5
@mhoye So what argumetns do work against such people? I can think of only two right now 1) appeal to their own self interest - what you are doing will actually make things worse for yourself / your in-group 2) show of force - either political, finiancial or actual physical
Show threadmhoyeJan 5
@1a1nC You don’t argue with them. They’re trying to waste your time. Engaging at all is losing.
Show threadDmitry BorodaenkoJan 5
@mhoye @1a1nC This. Ignore what fascists say and create consequences for what they do.
Show threadGinevraCatJan 5
@mhoye @researchfairy Wow!
Show threadCybarbieJan 5
@mhoye fascists employing their favorite life-hack: cheating and lying.
Show threadmhoyeJan 5
@nf3xn it doesn’t even rise to the level of lying. That would involve some concession that there was something called the truth and the distinction mattered. This is nothing but posturing noises, the bleating and grunting of dominance games and herd-animal allegiance.
Show threadedhaswellJan 10

@mhoye

Corollary of Wilhoit's Law.

Show threadjohnny anhedonicJan 10
@mhoye this lesson must be learned. early and often. as many times as necessary.
Show threadThe Silicon SorceressJan 29

@mhoye "Vice signalling".

People who haven't experienced narcissistic abuse don't seem to understand the difference between lying for deception, and lying to demonstrate contempt.

Deception is when someone steals your lunch and says they don't know what happened to it to avoid consequences.

That's very different from someone looking you in the eye and tells you they don't know what happened to your lunch as they eat it in front of you.