WHO rules over us now, according to Voltaire ! ?

[stvdv]

WHO rules over us now, according to Voltaire ! ?

Note: Thank you @Erebus + @ChristineM for the correction. Sadly it is the quote of a neo-Nazi, not Voltaire

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Trump criticizes them thr timenand foolishly withdrew support of them, so I don't really get what you're saying.

 

[Wandering Monk]

WHO rules over us now, according to Voltaire ! ?

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Only if you butcher the metaphor.

 

[Stevicus]

WHO rules over us now, according to Voltaire ! ?

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Fortunately, we're still allowed to criticize anyone or anything we want, at least for the time being.

Of course, there will always be those who react negatively to criticism, but how far they can actually go in silencing their critics is somewhat limited, although that's dependent upon the system of government and the political culture within a given society.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

WHO rules over us now, according to Voltaire ! ?

Is this clever yet surreptitious support for the Trump-maligned World Health Organization or is there some overly obscure point that you're failing to make?

 

[Tambourine]

"Money is always to be found when men are to be sent to the frontiers to be destroyed:
when the object is to preserve them, it is no longer so."

-- Voltaire​

 

[stvdv]

surreptitious

Thank you, I always learn some interesting, very accurate new English words reading your replies

 

[stvdv]

Trump criticizes them thr timenand foolishly withdrew support of them, so I don't really get what you're saying.

Trump seems a puppet, who is given Carte Blanche when it comes to lying, criticizing, grabbing women and what not
I created 3 threads with the word Corona in it, having plenty (>50) replies, but the thread was not "Featured"
Once can be coincidental, twice can be coincidental, thrice starts to become a pattern

I know, that Trump is above Rules.
Voltaire was not talking about Presidents, but about "you"

 

[Erebus]

"I never said that!"

- Voltaire

 

[exchemist]

WHO rules over us now, according to Voltaire ! ?

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Please produce evidence to show we are not allowed to criticise the WHO.

I have read several newspaper article in the last few months analysing its strengths and weaknesses. So far as I am aware, none of the writers has been shot, imprisoned or sacked from their job.

 

[stvdv]

"I never said that!"

- Voltaire

Voltaire admitted that he never said, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
He did say, “Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too," but that doesn’t imply anything to die for.

 

[stvdv]

Please produce evidence to show we are not allowed to criticise the WHO.

I have read several newspaper article in the last few months analysing its strengths and weaknesses. So far as I am aware, none of the writers has been shot, imprisoned or sacked from their job.

So, you have ruled that one out, why should I produce evidence, I don't want to prove anything to you? I believe you on your word.

 

[exchemist]

"I never said that!"

- Voltaire

Oh really, I thought that was Einstein.

 

[exchemist]

So, you have ruled that one out, why should I produce evidence, I don't want to prove anything to you? I believe you on your word.

You have no business to make baseless claims that you cannot support.

 

[stvdv]

You have no business to make baseless claims that you cannot support.

I did not make a claim, I just share a quote of Voltaire that I liked

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I created 3 threads with the word Corona in it, having plenty (>50) replies, but the thread was not "Featured"
Once can be coincidental, twice can be coincidental, thrice starts to become a pattern

Featured threads are determined by an algorithm that picks them based on a formula that has something to do with receiving a certain number of posts within a certain time frame. Its entirely automated and disinterested in topic.

 

[stvdv]

Featured threads are determined by an algorithm that picks them based on a formula that has something to do with receiving a certain number of posts within a certain time frame. Its entirely automated and disinterested in topic.

All my posts were featured when Post #20 was posted, except those 3
I don't complain though, because there was a message a month or so ago, that we should be careful with Corona posts

I think they even made a Rule out of it, but I was unable to find that Rule

 

[exchemist]

I did not make a claim, I just share a quote of Voltaire that I liked

You wrote the title of the thread, did you not? That title makes a claim. A false one.

 

[ChristineM]

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”

Now regularly attributed to Voltaire, this saying seems to originate with something written in 1993 by Kevin Alfred Strom, an American neo-Nazi Holocaust denier,

Voltaire and the one-liner

 

[stvdv]

You wrote the title of the thread, did you not? That title makes a claim. A false one.

Voltaire said "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"

Hence my question in the title became "Who rules over us now?"
I added "according to voltaire" to give away a clue, as Voltaire gave a hint how to get to the answer

So, I did not make any claim. Why should I? I know you always ask for evidence
Voltaire also said: “Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too"

I like Voltaire. Great quotes.