Interesting how your can theoretically pardon yourself. Very ethically sound. — Benkei
Something bigger than any individual is very wrong.
2h — unenlightened
Indeed, democracy is a bad system when most of the population is insane. — unenlightened
democracy is a bad system when most of the population is insane. — unenlightened
Nietzsche was right in calling democracy a slave morality. — Merkwurdichliebe
Trump might be seen by N as an uberman, so much a master that he was able to live by a master morality despite specific democratic structures that were designed to make sure he was not treated as above the common man. — Hanover
:100: :fire:I think Trump would be seen by Nietzsche as an exemplar of the last man. The uberman is first and foremost not a matter of dominance over others but of self-dominance, self-mastery, self-overcoming. The uberman is a higher man, a superior man, a man of a higher order. The creator of new higher values not someone who disregards values. — Fooloso4
It just goes to show you that even though the MAGA base is fiercely loyal to Trump if he diverges too far from their core values or beliefs they will boo him and voice their disapproval. — GRWelsh
Hell, at this point it would be an improvement to have a republican president commit to a peaceful transfer of power, and then honour that commitment. — flannel jesus
.All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs. — Enoch Powell
what I call the "reality warping" effect of Trump — GRWelsh
But Trump said he did, so people believe it. They believe it even though it has been explained over and over again that the VP doesn't have the power to do this. — GRWelsh
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth. — Max Planck
There was a moral panic when Trump showed up on the scene. He was the next big dictator, compared to everyone from Mussolini, to Mugabe, to Mao. He was the harbinger of a new fascism. He was a Manchurian candidate. He was going to start world war 3 and throw us into nuclear holocaust. — NOS4A2
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