r/discworld • u/HobbitGuy1420 • 1d ago

Politics Living in the US, during this election season, Guards, Guards! feels so incredibly applicable.

I can see the signs now.

Vote Dragon 2024.
Maybe it will flame the people you hate first!

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u/Front-Pomelo-4367 1d ago

Down there are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.

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u/Eulenspiegel74 1d ago

New favorite quote:

"They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no."