Post 9jaHeQNeA4ZG0yWHEO by 361.xj9@social.sunshinegardens.org
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 (DIR) Post #9jaGeh229ULJhhyTiq by hector@explosion.party
       2019-06-06T22:33:16.856682Z
       
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       People think that evil looks like a mad scientist cackling with glee as he disintegrates innocent bystanders, but in reality it looks like hundreds of thousands of "normal" people doing mundane tasks to support the government surveillance and war machine and its corporate "national defense" functionaries.
       
 (DIR) Post #9jaHeQNeA4ZG0yWHEO by 361.xj9@social.sunshinegardens.org
       2019-06-06T22:44:25.372823Z
       
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       @hector we need more mad scientists and less normies
       
 (DIR) Post #9jaIP7xCUMAKTaQ34i by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2019-06-06T22:52:53.005897Z
       
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       @hector And the ~good guys often looks like punks?
       
 (DIR) Post #9jaJnrRb6mOqSwzkTA by hector@explosion.party
       2019-06-06T23:08:32.966579Z
       
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       @lanodan you don't have to be a punk to be a good guy, but yes that is a possibility.
       
 (DIR) Post #9jaK5kpiQVdlAtoAWu by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2019-06-06T23:11:46.055308Z
       
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       @hector Yeah, meant it this way
       
 (DIR) Post #9jaP5WxEWjWTtx2Mi0 by jack@freespeechextremist.com
       2019-06-07T00:07:47.103505Z
       
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       @hector People falsely believe their own neighbors won't torture and kill them. But those people never have any problem collecting a government paycheck for doing the most depraved things, because the culpability is carefully managed. >All I did was write the program to tap the phones.>All I did was target the suspect.>All I did was compile the report. >All I did was sign the warrant.  >All I did was fuel the helicopter. >All I did was transport the prisoner. >All I did was follow the interrogation protocol. >All I did was strap down the condemned. They will all call themselves blameless. All that matters is that we don't let them get away with it.
       
 (DIR) Post #9jbOVgsaLJrHPsjWC0 by jonne@mastodon.arjoranta.fi
       2019-06-07T06:34:22Z
       
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       @hector Hannah Arendt coined the term "banality of evil" to describe this in her book about the trial of the nazi Adolf Eichmann.
       
 (DIR) Post #9jbOVh7pQe3GB9rgx6 by hector@explosion.party
       2019-06-07T11:35:59.182838Z
       
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       @jonne yeah I know. Quite underappreciated concept really.
       
 (DIR) Post #9jbdWsg3SkMrbotj9M by ffs@shitasstits.life
       2019-06-07T14:24:18.012838Z
       
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       @xj9 @hector the problem is that normies bully mad scientists to death, usually they suicide. This is why dumbs outclass smart.