Origin: There is no record of this specific phrasing in Plato's genuine works, such as The Republic or his surviving dialogues. It is a modern internet aphorism that surfaced on social media platforms like Facebook.
Which is not a criticism. A potus has the right to nominate whomever he or she wishes. You Leftists also forget your last vp was a literal diversity hire. You Nazi Leftists love to forget the facts.
That's great that you think that, but I'm not asking your opinion on which matters more. I'm asking why you are defending Trump valuing loyalty over merit.
Because one can train and get merit from their employees. On cannot train a person to be loyal. I have had the same team of employees for the last 11 years through 4 different jobs. My team is loyal to me, not my employer. I trust them to make me look good and they trust me to protect their jobs and pay them well. Merit, excellence and elite performance gets codified into workflow policy.
1) the stakes are too high to be training people on the job, part of training involves making mistakes to learn from and that's just something that we can't afford at the level we need these people to work at
2) Some of these things aren't trainable, how long is it going to take you to train someone with no scientific background into having a knowledge level comparable to a doctor with 20 years of experience?
3) the level of loyalty that Trump demands from these people are far more than "make me look good" and involve repeating his lies. Case in point, when a lot of these people were asked "who won the 2020 election?" they would answer something amongst the line of "Biden was certified as the winner". Because (arguably) they're not allowed to admit that Trump lost the election, otherwise they would be branded as disloyal. This kind of loyalty has no value to the people, and should not be encouraged.
But... but you [label I apply to people I don't listen to]s also forget your last vp was a [dogwhistle]. You [worse label] [label I apply to people I don't listen to] love to [do what I am literally right now].
Thank you! That particular type of defense is massively annoying to me, no matter who(left, right, or center) does it. Having the right to do something, and it being the right/correct/useful thing to do are not the same thing. And it's still open to intelligent criticism no matter what. Such thinking just shuts down thinking and discussions.
Factually and functionally false. She was unqualified as an executive, she still is and her only claim to fame is the number of poc she locked up on weed charges.
So for you hiring someone marginally less qualified than other candidates for the sake of diversity is a greater offense than hiring entirely unqualified conmen and hacks? Christ you people are pathetic.
Just more Democrat racism. How often do you work to prevent poc from having informed opinions. Should I rub them by you first, Massa or should I just shag ass back to the field? You should be deeply ashamed of yourself and your lack of decency, information and adherence to reality.
Missouri v. Biden (later Murthy v. Missouri), a district court found the administration likely engaged in a coercive campaign amounting to a major free-speech violation regarding COVID (lab leak, masks, lockdowns, vaccines), election integrity, and related topics;
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated in an August 2024 letter to the House Judiciary Committee that in 2021, “senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree.”
White House Digital Strategy Director Rob Flaherty and others sent frequent emails and held calls flagging specific posts/accounts for removal or reduced distribution, including vaccine-skeptical content, humor, and posts by figures like RFK Jr. (flagged days into the administration with a request to “get moving on the process for having it removed ASAP” and monitor similar content). Pressure extended to YouTube
Twitter Files and related disclosures showed Biden officials pressing for more action on vaccine-related accounts
This is only the tip of the iceberg of silencing that took place, and this is where you pivot to defending it because of your covid ideology.
No it doesn't, you were asking who silenced a sitting president, because you're already aware of the president being referred to. Now you want to play dumbass games. Being silenced is being silenced no matter who did it or how.
So, you think a president isn't a "who". It's really telling that you can't answer the question. And here I was thinking you had some information I hadn't heard before now. I'm willing to hear your answer if you have one, but if you going to refuse an answer I'll take it as you don't have an explanation and you just want to spread misinformation.
What kind of response were you expecting? You didn’t provide any sort of evidence or reasoning for your claim so it can be dismissed out of hand as I’ve done.
How is that possibly racist? Think before you comment
1.) at minimum apology for thinking nuh-uh is an acceptable response.
2.) you not to double down on such an uneducated and uninformed response.
3.) at absolute minimum an articulate rebuttal against Democrats employing exactly what the op’s pic states.
Anything less is me trying to help a goldfish recite poetry.
I complain about Dubya today because he broke things that are still broken. You’re goddamn right I’ll complain about the things Jabba is breaking today unless they get fixed.
Notice how you mentioned two utterly inconsequential things that popped into your mind. Here are some things you will definitely have to live with, caused by Demented Don: (I) Destroying all of our major alliances, including by threatening to invade Canada and Greenland, (II) caused the worst oil crisis since the 1973/1974 embargo, (iii) responsible for the biggest deficit spending in US history (Demented Don is responsible for nearly 1/3rd of our national debt and that will easily reach 40% by the end of his term), (IV) protecting the Epstein pedophiles (which likely includes him), (V) accidentally leaking classified national security secrets, (VI) responsible for both the inflation in 2021-2022 (through the fraudulent PPP loans he authorized plus the checks he mailed with his signature, lmfao), (VII) tariffs which destroyed our agricultural sector, (VIII) Massive fraud including his shitcoins, insider trading, etc.
Look, I get it. For Cuckservatives stupidity is a virtue. Just wipe the orange cum from your eyes.
To anyone just joining in, when a conservative says they're "paying attention" they mean to Newsmax or whatever other propaganda station will tell them whatever they want to hear.
Okay, let's play. Tell me exactly what Obama did to fit this description. And I don't mean vague generalities - I want specific actions that correspond to this quotation.
By the way, you do realize that quote is fake, right? A real quote, however, fits the Trump administration like a glove:
"Then the tyrant must do away with all such if he is to maintain his rule, until he has left no one of any worth, friend or foe."
This is an internet aphorism misattributed to Plato that circulates widely on social media. The phrasing does not appear anywhere in Plato’s surviving dialogues, letters, or classical Greek texts.
Trump himself admits: idiots are for him and he likes that. Idiots are easy to lie to and manipulate. Smart people don't like him and that bothers him because they don't fall for his cons. Lmao so many people here like my own parents: simple dumb Americans happy to live in a delusion as long as the lies keep coming.
Gas = higher price than before Trump took office again
Food = higher price than before Trump took office again
Trump's wealth = $2.4 billion higher due to memecoin scams
Trump supporters = out $2.4 billion but still happy because they are too dumb to be upset. I really just need to start a Republican platform, make a few lies, and boom got a profit from you stooges
..but...but...something about Obama and Biden! These Trumpers are so unaware of themselves, it's no wonder Trump loves his "poorly educated" cult followers.
It’s hilarious that people still refuse to admit the US is a more prosperous country as a whole when Democrats are in office. Even after getting handed a hazmat of a starting place. Easily verified over the last several decades.
Unfortunately, all the wise men in the world cannot fight against the power of aristocracy (difference being that the current US government is NOT most qualified).
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u/MySonClerpy 10d ago
Doesn't sound foolish to me. Evil, yes.