No link, because why the fuck would you link to this garbage

  • Vampire [any]
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    2 years ago

    the meaningless Latin he threw in there to sound intellectual

    or did he mean 'ipso facto'

    • The_Grinch [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      A yeti, saving infinite children drowning in infinite ponds. Behold, a moral monster.

      • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I was going to say this.

        The way he uses moral monster all the time is clearly supposed to be a crypto-religious crudgel to align people doing benign things with Hitler or the Devil.

        But whenever I read it I just imagine a nice, furry, cuddly storybook monster that teaches kids about sharing and being nice to each other and so on.

        Which admittedly is probably the same thing he imagines too, but is warped enough to think that is a horrifying image on the level of Hitler or the Devil.

        • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          align people doing benign things with Hitler or the Devil.

          Fairly sure he had Stalin in mind, mfer always gets that feverish glow on his face whenever he's blathering about how powerful the Führer's charisma was. He's very obviously a total Adolf Hitler fanboi.

    • Antoine_St_Hexubeary [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I'm a de jure moral monster. I have the rules for being a moral monster written out on a little card in my wallet, and I always consult the card before making big decisions.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      de facto means "in fact" or "as actually practiced" while "de jure' means "what the law says" with the implication that the law is not being followed. I'm not even sure if they're real Latin or just dog Latin that has become an English expression. But both terms are pretty commonly used. I'd honestly never even considered that they were Latin until you mentioned it.

      • Vampire [any]
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        2 years ago

        'de facto' doesn't really add anything to the tweet.

        It's not grammatically incorrect there or gibberish, but it's redundant.

        'ipso facto' is I think what he meant: if they do x, they are ipso facto a monster