The Picture of Dorian Gray is in my top 5 list. I only read it a few years back and I blamed myself for not reading it earlier. It’s astonishing. Same as The Prince, by Machiavelli. It’s the most refined, intelligent, and comprehensive political essay I’ve ever read. They’re both works of geniuses.
November 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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(1 of 1,287) This is not so much a question - but rather more a dialectical postulation in the vein of Niccolò Machiavelli. First, the fact that you would even give such a monotonous critique demonstrates that your interpretation was fundamentally discordant with the...
November 2, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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WIT OF THE DAY
"You are stupid because you believe appearances are truth. That is why you are ruled."
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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"You are stupid because you believe appearances are truth. That is why you are ruled."
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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November 2, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Well he has to be seen worrying about christians lots of christians here in the US are the ones stupid enough to vote for him. Pandering to the cult.
“There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious. (christian)”
- Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1532)
“There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious. (christian)”
- Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1532)
November 2, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Defrost ICE
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Purge the Cult
Refuse Unlawful Orders
Unseat Machiavelli Johnson
Reject the Lies & Delusions
End the Republican Shutdown
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Defrost ICE
Swear Her In
Purge the Cult
Refuse Unlawful Orders
Unseat Machiavelli Johnson
Reject the Lies & Delusions
End the Republican Shutdown
SCOTUS is for LAW not POWER
Release the Homan Bribery Tapes
The GOP has no balls to need a room for
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Mike Johnson’s back—this time explaining hunger like it’s a paperwork error.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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No Kings
Defrost ICE
Swear Her In
Purge the Cult
Refuse Unlawful Orders
Unseat Machiavelli Johnson
Reject the Lies & Delusions
End the Republican Shutdown
SCOTUS is for LAW not POWER
Release the Homan Bribery Tapes
The GOP has no balls to need a room for
Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein
No Kings
Defrost ICE
Swear Her In
Purge the Cult
Refuse Unlawful Orders
Unseat Machiavelli Johnson
Reject the Lies & Delusions
End the Republican Shutdown
SCOTUS is for LAW not POWER
Release the Homan Bribery Tapes
The GOP has no balls to need a room for
Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein
November 2, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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avvolge e protegge.
Le leggi senza cultura sono inutili.
Bibliografia
“Riflessioni sulle cause della libertà e dell’oppressione sociale”, Simone Weil.
“Il principe”, Niccolò Machiavelli.
“Economia e società”, Max Weber.
Le leggi senza cultura sono inutili.
Bibliografia
“Riflessioni sulle cause della libertà e dell’oppressione sociale”, Simone Weil.
“Il principe”, Niccolò Machiavelli.
“Economia e società”, Max Weber.
November 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Machiavelli ci mostrò la contraddizione tra il “Bonum omnium”, la ricerca di un bene comune che giustifica, in qualche modo, un mezzo non completamente etico e la pura volontà di potenza di stampo, successivamente, nicciano. Hannah Arendt, ha messo in luce viceversa una dimensione nuova della
November 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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youtu.be/7tch1CuMV9M?... shrug. THEY chose technofeudalism. jbcthey got an early jump on it doesn't mean that they're necessarily the best at it? Henry 8th vibes. machiavelli had that example of using brutal admin who cracked the whip and then made an example of for brutality. denkept the laws hard
Excalibur - When a Man Lies
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November 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I just quoted Machiavelli in my computer science thesis and can't stop giggling like a little girl.
November 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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The nation has been ghosted by the Machiavelli Johnson's House Republicans.
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No Kings
Defrost ICE
Swear Her In
Purge the Cult
Reject the Lies & Delusions
End the Republican Shutdown
Release the Homan Bribery Tapes
The GOP has no balls to need a room for
Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein
8647
No Kings
Defrost ICE
Swear Her In
Purge the Cult
Reject the Lies & Delusions
End the Republican Shutdown
Release the Homan Bribery Tapes
The GOP has no balls to need a room for
Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein
November 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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*looking at guy grasping with his mortality by accepting (building Pharaoh projects like the ballroom) and deny it (third term talk)*
fuck man, Machiavelli has NOTHING on this genius
fuck man, Machiavelli has NOTHING on this genius
November 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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You too. Bon chance my friend. Keep hoping and remember 'if we go to Hell we'll be in the company of popes, kings and princes.' (stolen from N. Machiavelli)
November 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Generations of failsons reading Sun Tzu and Machiavelli
November 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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People who aren’t woke: Thucydides, Thrasymachus, Diogenes, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and especially Baudrillard. Okay… Nietzsche was kind of woke. But compared to him, Timothy Leary, Dave Chappell, Charles Manson, and Jerry Seinfeld are extremely woke.
November 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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to divide the people and destroy their natural leaders, and to keep faith with no one, since no one will keep faith with him.
A condemnation of the times? How could it be?. This is the premise of the book "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli (1513)
A condemnation of the times? How could it be?. This is the premise of the book "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli (1513)
November 1, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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(1 of 23) This is not so much a question - but rather more a deconstructive rumination in the vein of Niccolò Machiavelli. First, the fact that you would even give such a bland critique demonstrates that your interpretation was quintessentially misaligned with the...
November 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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This is some weird medieval succession ploy, this is Machiavelli material, George R.R. Martin couldn't write a more ridiculous plot
November 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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That’s what Machiavelli discovered. He dressed in the evening as if he expected to meet the great men of the past.
October 31, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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You can't take the sky from @adapalmer.bsky.social!
On pg 237 of Inventing the Renaissance, chuckling at an imagined dialog between Machiavelli, a newly formed Milanese Republic, and other parties when I read this and just die...
"Milanese Guelphs: Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"
On pg 237 of Inventing the Renaissance, chuckling at an imagined dialog between Machiavelli, a newly formed Milanese Republic, and other parties when I read this and just die...
"Milanese Guelphs: Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"
October 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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A wedding uniting the Borgias and the Medici. Machiavelli would be pleased.
October 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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“Se non batti il tuo nemico esso si rafforzerà”.
Ha detto Confucio, Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler, Stalin, Machiavelli eccetera eccetera eccetera.
A quando i palazzi di Mosca? Non perché sia giusto: perché inevitabile… ⛵️
Ha detto Confucio, Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler, Stalin, Machiavelli eccetera eccetera eccetera.
A quando i palazzi di Mosca? Non perché sia giusto: perché inevitabile… ⛵️
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Every movement for progress faces resistance from those invested in the past. Real change threatens power, and that’s why it’s worth fighting for. #Progress #Democracy #Reform #Surge4Democracy
October 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Op zaterdag 1 november vanaf 9.00 uur zijn Kevin de Jonge (VVD Gouda) en Wim Schmidt (Gouda Positief) te gast bij Machiavelli, het politieke programma over #Gouda van @gouwestad.bsky.social. Te beluisteren via qxjr001.digiplay.nl/stream/9140/... en terug te luisteren via gouwestad.nl/wp/podcasts/...
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