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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

With neofascists it’s never about free speech, but rather convenient speech. Their idea of freedom actually means compliance. And they never mind watching the world burn. TL,DR: Resist now. Or you will be removed later.

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. - Dunno who said it first

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

There is a cult of ignorance in the US, and has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. - Isaac Asimov

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

It isn’t “my” single issue. I understand that democracy is a bus, not a taxi - you pick the one that gets you closest to your destination. But Gaza was one if not the single issue for ~6.9m dem voters, besides race & gender: 2016 Clinton 65.9m 2012 Obama 65.9m 2024 Harris 74.4m 2020 Biden 81.3m

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

There was no choice for liberal voters. So they didn’t vote. 2024 was moderate conservative democrats bombing Gaza vs paleo conservative & fascist republicans bombing Gaza. When a restaurant only offers two meals, and both taste like shit, don’t blame mindful customers for not ordering anything.

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. - Charles Bukowski

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

My preferred visual metaphor for the coming four years is the burning Colossus at Six Flags.

Six Flag’s Colossus roller coaster burning.

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. - Frederick Douglass

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Boyd, Donna, and Kenny. I’m royally fucked either way, right?!

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. - P. J. O'Rourke

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. ― Bertrand Russell

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. ― Robert A. Heinlein

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. - Denis Diderot (1713-1784)

Denis Diderot, painting by Louis-Michel van Loo, 1767.

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Cheers! Also, and you have to trust a Bavarian on this one, please ask Santa for a proper Weissbier glass.

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. ― Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway sitting in front of a door, holding one of his polydactyl cats.

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

When I see someone with six-pack abs, I know we won’t have fun. Their idea of a good time is putting on tight shorts and working on their stomach muscles. Someone with love handles is putting on oven mitts and working on baking the perfect cinnamon buns. They’re fun. ― Tom Papa

Tom Papa leaning against a wall, looking sideways

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

For those less fluent in Hideo's mother tongue: it's a poster for Mohammad Rasoulof's "The Seed Of The Sacret Fig". And yes, you should watch it, it's time and money well spent.

Movie Poster for "The Seed Of The Sacred Fig"

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

“Do you hate people?” “I don't hate them... I just feel better when they're not around.” - Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski sitting in front of a bookshelf.

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ― Søren Kierkegaard

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing. ― Trevor Noah

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The Great Offender (wtf/wtaf) 🇪🇺 @helmutweigel.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in. ― Doug Stanhope

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