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Farage: "We want to massively restrict postal voting so it's only for people who really need it." Journalist: "Didn't you vote by post at the last election?" Farage: "Yes." Hypocrisy is lost on these 🤡🤡🤡🤡
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A formal Hypocrite is ev'ry way / Directly like an Actor in a Play; / Who (what e're the spectators of him deemeth) / Is not the same which then in shew he seemeth. — Donne

A formal Hypocrite is ev'ry way Directly like an Actor in a Play; Who (what e're the spectators of him deemeth) Is not the same which then in shew he seemeth.
John Donne, “14. Of Hypocrisie.”

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This is a perfect instance of the gap between stated principle and self-serving conduct—a core obsession of the satirists in the canon.
The problem
A public figure advocates for a principle he exempts himself from, revealing the distance between the words used to move crowds and the conduct those words are designed to excuse.
Search queries
power justifying different rules for itself and others, the rhetoric of restriction applied selectively by those exempt, hypocrisy as systematic blindness the speaker cannot see
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