A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆
"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try, or that you do know the difference, and you prefer evil." https://www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of-human-virtue/
The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

The Reframe
Oct 13, 2025 at 10:01amWeb
Show thread👁Pooka🫣Boo🫵Oct 13, 2025
@JuliusGoat
Well written; however, the good versus evil framing is wrong. Oh yes, it's comforting if one considers themselves on the good side, but it doesn't change the fact that these terms are contextual. I submit that the eternal struggle is not good versus evil, as Hollywood and other billionaire influenced fools love to depict. It's truth versus illusion. We see the objective truth here. It's the need for global human rights, freedom, and democracy, not authoritarianism!
Show threadJWcph, Radicalized By DecencyOct 13, 2025

@lednaBM @JuliusGoat I see what you're saying, but I also think that we can agree that the truth is good & being adverse to it is bad, which is just another word for evil.

The framing is objectively correct. Don't get caught up in trying to be academic about this; evil people will do an end-run around you while you mull over your arguments.

Show threadPeggy Heinkel-WolfeOct 13, 2025

@jwcph @lednaBM @JuliusGoat
I get what your saying too and I’d like to groundtruth why the framing is correct

Walking the dog this morning on a popular rail-trail here, I overheard a woman, engrossed in her take on politics, tell her friend “and that’s why some evil has to happen”

Show threadSue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱Oct 13, 2025
@JuliusGoat I read this aloud to hubby last night — thank you for writing it
Show threadSue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱Oct 13, 2025

@JuliusGoat

so good

"But have you ever noticed that Republicans have gotten everything they ever wanted, and it hasn't made them a bit happier? Have you ever noticed that joy is further than ever from them? And what is sillier than a guy who looks like Dennis Reynolds-meets-Gollum screaming we have beauty! we have light! we have goodness! It will ever be thus; the more that they get the anti-humanity world they insist on, the less joy will be available for them to access."

Show threadWorldTravelerAll7Oct 14, 2025

@JuliusGoat

Excellent article💙
to be a #Repugnican today is a conscious choice that one will be branded with for life

it reminds me of this, The Paradox of Tolerance when someone implies i have to "accept" someone who is maga. i don't consider them part of protected humanity

#MagaIsCancer 💯 #magafree