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I’m awfully curious as to how the author would explain away state socialists regularly reporting on the oppression of Palestinians.

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[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

to forgive the oppressors of humanity is cruelty, to persecute them is clemency

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is that a quote? If you made it up yourself. It goes really fucking hard

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

- Maximilien de Robespierre

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Despite being french dude was spittin

The only good liberal

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It’s an inversion of what he said, though

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I read it backwards the first time. blob-no-thoughts

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Haha, I am being a bit imprecise and also misreading a bit myself - the meaning is effectively the same in the end. I’m not much for forgiving billionaires though.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago

I just remembered I speak french and tried to find the quote in what I supposed was the original language. Search engines are fucking useless now. Anyway, found it and was a bit curious cause English translations of french tend to fuck up how a sentence should be ordered and getting it backwards made me curious. Anyway, I was just flip flopped and the translation is really literal