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A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Oct 13, 2025

"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.

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👁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!

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JWcph, Radicalized By Decency Oct 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.

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Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe

@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”