A form of bias based on Winston Churchill's famous quote about democracy being "the worst form of Government except for all those other forms"—used to justify abuses, atrocities, and crimes committed by democratic, quasi-democratic, semi-democratic, or pseudo-democratic governments, particularly Western and liberal democratic ones. The bias works by establishing an impossible standard: democracy is judged against utopia, while alternatives are judged against their actual historical performance. Any democratic failure is excused by "but it's better than the alternatives"; any authoritarian success is dismissed as exceptional or temporary. Government exception bias allows democratic states to commit human rights abuses, wage illegal wars, and suppress dissent while maintaining the moral high ground—because, after all, they're not as bad as those regimes. The bias is most visible in discussions of Western foreign policy, where "flawed but still the best" becomes a blanket justification for anything.
Example: "When criticized for drone strikes killing civilians, he deployed government exception bias: 'Democracies make mistakes, but at least we're not a dictatorship that murders its own people.' The comparison was true but irrelevant—it excused specific atrocities by appealing to general superiority. The victims didn't care about comparative political science; they cared about being dead. Government exception bias had done its work: changing the subject from crime to comparison."
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(Talking about a rich person)
“You can tell they ain’t never got a taste of that Government Cheese”
(Talking about making it out)
“Can’t believe I used to live off Government Cheese”
(Talking about someone poor)
“They look like they have Government Cheese for every meal”
“You can tell they ain’t never got a taste of that Government Cheese”
(Talking about making it out)
“Can’t believe I used to live off Government Cheese”
(Talking about someone poor)
“They look like they have Government Cheese for every meal”
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Get the gores764 mug.Isn't it crazy that they can just sit there and allow a mentally retarded contractor steal my shit so I have to keep working... And the shut down the Government so THEY don't have to work! So they don't have to ARREST A LITERAL CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING RING.
Hym "So the Republicans are covering for pedophiles while a mental retard absconds with my work. If you think these people are going to do anything other than replace you with the AI I created (which they are already doing) and you are more concerned with dragging me down with you than what's going to happen after they replace ME. If they are going to replace the AI creating genius, even if it means they have to sacrifice your kids, then they are going to replace you next. Why wait till September? What's in September? Nothing. The government shutdown is bullshit. They let your idiot kids weaponizes schizophrenia and get themselves kill after reading everything I wrote, as I wrote it. Ignoring my warning, my moral argument, and my legal argument entirely. Now, they let Epstein and HIS FRIENDS (Whoever THEY are I don't know WHO was FRIENDS WITH EPSTEIN but his friends fuck kids) molest kids and now they are helping his friends get away with it. All because you have no ability to make them do anything about anything! They don't even have to warn you if your little girl is about to down in a flood! THEY MAKE US WORK FOR BILLIONAIRES BUT DON'T HAVE TO DO THEIR JOB... AT ALL! And they get away with it because if you're not going to grab your gun, go to Mike Johnsons house and avenge your drowned daughter the who gives a shit!? Right?"
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“Where are all of the gores at?”
“Which one of you gores bought the newest Call of Duty game?”
“How about some games with the gores?”
“Which one of you gores bought the newest Call of Duty game?”
“How about some games with the gores?”
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