LINUXHIPPIE: Embrace the horror gentleman and know that it is your time to endure. If you aren't thinking about these events with reference to the above, you will find yourself a tool of the very thing you seek to fight.

Do not despair. "If there be not an excess of tyranny it is more expedient to tolerate for a while the milder tyranny than, by acting against the tyrant, to be involved in many perils which are more grievous than the tyranny itself" (De Regime Principum, III, ch. 10). "A tyrannical government is not just, because it is directed, not to the common good, but to the private good of the ruler… Consequently there is no sedition in disturbing a government of this kind, unless indeed the tyrant's rule be disturbed so inordinately, that his subjects suffer greater harm from the consequent disturbance than from the tyrant's government." (ST II-II, Q. 42, A. 2, ad 3) Resistance is not per se seditious, but it becomes so when the violence of the overthrow inflicts more harm on the common good than the tyranny itself. The tyrant, not the resisters, is the true seditious party: "it is the tyrant rather that is guilty of sedition, since he encourages discord and sedition among his subjects, that he may lord over them more securely." "The remedies against the evils of tyranny rather lie in the hands of public authority than in the private judgment of individuals." Where the people have the constitutional right to elect a ruler, they have the correlative right to depose him." Embrace the horror gentleman and know that it is your time to endure. If you aren't thinking about these events with reference to the above, you will find yourself a tool of the very thing you seek to fight.

— Linuxhippie (@linuxhippie) November 4, 2026

from Linuxhippie,

Do not despair. "If there be not an excess of tyranny it is more expedient to tolerate for a while the milder tyranny than, by acting against the tyrant, to be involved in many perils which are more grievous than the tyranny itself" (De Regime Principum, III, ch. 10). "A tyrannical government is not just, because it is directed, not to the common good, but to the private good of the ruler… Consequently there is no sedition in disturbing a government of this kind, unless indeed the tyrant's rule be disturbed so inordinately, that his subjects suffer greater harm from the consequent disturbance than from the tyrant's government." (ST II-II, Q. 42, A. 2, ad 3) Resistance is not per se seditious, but it becomes so when the violence of the overthrow inflicts more harm on the common good than the tyranny itself. The tyrant, not the resisters, is the true seditious party: "it is the tyrant rather that is guilty of sedition, since he encourages discord and sedition among his subjects, that he may lord over them more securely." "The remedies against the evils of tyranny rather lie in the hands of public authority than in the private judgment of individuals." Where the people have the constitutional right to elect a ruler, they have the correlative right to depose him."

Embrace the horror gentleman and know that it is your time to endure. If you aren't thinking about these events with reference to the above, you will find yourself a tool of the very thing you seek to fight.