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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 20:38:15 JST goatsarah

   Humanity throughout history is beset by fuckers. Right now, for example, we have overtly homicidal fuckers like Putin and Netanyahu, would be homicidal fuckers like Trump, and common or garden “hoarding all the money like some fucking dragon or something” fuckers like Musk, Bezos, Thiel, etc.

   There are also lots of other variety of fuckers: hatemongering fuckers like Farage, Murdoch or LePen: grifting fuckers swinging a wrecking ball at society because mummy didn’t like them or something.

   And it seems to me that the problem is that for every fucker who gets to encounter the “and find out” stage: Hitler, Charles I of England, Louis XVI, etc, there are more for whom the only people finding out are the rest of us who have to live (or die) with their fuckery: Stalin, countless people with that Hapsburg chin, Henry Ford, and so-on.

   I honestly think the world would be a much better place if fuckery were inherently a much higher risk strategy, and far less likely to leave all the important fluid pipes running through the neck intact (this is a traditional “and find out” method throughout history, but far from the only one), but alas, the fuckers are the ones who by and large get to structure our society, and they do their best to ensure it’s structured in a way that keeps finding out as far from them as possible.

   It is a great tragedy and it makes me sad.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 20:41:27 JST goatsarah

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     Just seems to me that the proportion of fuckers is related to the risk inherent in the strategy of fuckery, and that risk is far too low right now, hence the high and frankly unsustainable level of fuckery we encounter in our time.
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     Miguel Arroz (arroz@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 00:31:56 JST Miguel Arroz

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     @goatsarah Just want to say “far less likely to leave all the important fluid pipes running through the neck intact” is one of the best things I’ve read here.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 00:41:51 JST goatsarah

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     • Phil Harrison
     @OldGitPhil he asked the time once on a tram. I didn’t recognise him, then the conductor asked for his autograph. True story.
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     Phil Harrison (oldgitphil@mastodon.org.uk)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 00:41:52 JST Phil Harrison

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     @goatsarah
     I can't believe this is 17 years old but more relevant than ever.
     https://youtu.be/xRGGbyZzuTg?si=1gkKTE8MMoU4n9uO

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     Kevin A (kevinsmusings@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 06:23:05 JST Kevin A

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     @goatsarah 👏 If we ever adopt a written constitution, this should be the opening paragraph.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 06:26:11 JST goatsarah

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     • Kevin A
     @KevinsMusings Praise indeed! Thanks!