news
Welcome to c/news! Please read the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember... we're all comrades here.
Rules:
-- PLEASE KEEP POST TITLES INFORMATIVE --
-- Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed. --
-- All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. --
-- If you are citing a twitter post as news please include not just the twitter.com in your links but also nitter.net (or another Nitter instance). There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ or archive them as you would any other reactionary source using e.g. https://archive.today/ . Twitter screenshots still need to be sourced or they will be removed --
-- Mass tagging comm moderators across multiple posts like a broken markov chain bot will result in a comm ban--
-- Repeated consecutive posting of reactionary sources, fake news, misleading / outdated news, false alarms over ghoul deaths, and/or shitposts will result in a comm ban.--
-- Neglecting to use content warnings or NSFW when dealing with disturbing content will be removed until in compliance. Users who are consecutively reported due to failing to use content warnings or NSFW tags when commenting on or posting disturbing content will result in the user being banned. --
-- Using April 1st as an excuse to post fake headlines, like the resurrection of Kissinger while he is still fortunately dead, will result in the poster being thrown in the gamer gulag and be sentenced to play and beat trashy mobile games like 'Raid: Shadow Legends' in order to be rehabilitated back into general society. --
view the rest of the comments
Relevant excerpt from one of those old timey poems that went pretty hard:
"First Envy, Eldest-Born of Hell, embrued Her hands in blood, and taught the Sons of men to make a death which Nature never made, and God abhorr'd, with violence rude to break of life ere half its length was run, and rob a wretched brother of his being.
With joy Ambition saw, and soon improv'd the execrable deed—'Twas not enough by subtle fraud to snatch a single life, puny impiety! Whole kingdoms fell to sate the lust of power; more horrid, the foulest stain and scandal of our nature became its boast.—One Murder made a Villain, Millions a Hero.—Princes were privileg'd to kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
Ah! why will Kings forget they are Men? And Men that they are Brethren? Why delight in human sacrifice? Why burst the ties of Nature, that should knit their souls together in one soft bond of amity and love?
Yet still they breathe destruction, still go on inhumanely ingenious to find out new pains for life, new terrors for the grave, artificers of Death! Still Monarchs dream of universal Empire growing up from universal ruin."
"Artificers of Death" pretty much sums up our modern "kings" and "princes" just as well as it did then. These people truly live by the old idea that they are heroic for killing millions, but no one else better even think it's kinda funny or at least karmic if one of them gets got.