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[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Any organisation that needs to remind themselves not to be evil is already intrinsically evil.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Very overtly and loudly claiming a quality which should be self-evident in oneself, one's company or one's nation invariably means it's not really there.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

"People's Democratic Republic"

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"The Greatest Democracy In The World" - Lots of US politicians, including those activelly engaged in gerrymandering and passing vote supression laws.

The dictum, supposedly from Einstein, about only the universe and human stupidity being infinite, needs to be ammended to include hypocrisy.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The country with the most Freedom™*

*Freedom™ must be redeemed in Freedom™ tokens; sufficient Freedom™ tokens entitles you to trample others' Freedom™; insufficient Freedom™ tokens entitles you to die in the gutter

[-] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

I think they changed it didn't they?

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I think it's "do the right thing" now

[-] DEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

For the shareholders

[-] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Ahh, much more leeway

[-] JonEFive@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Right - "Do no evil" uhhh... Is that not your default setting?

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