Government Exception Bias

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."

by Dumu The Void February 18, 2026

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Government Shutdown

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?"

by Hym Iam July 23, 2025

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government whore

My entire family, being part red neggur or NigguRed had to marry government whores.

Greek fire was so far up the USAs ass they bought some government whore meats on the cheap.

by EDONITIYAKANIYA September 2, 2025

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Government Shutdown

Oh hey, would you look at that? They're taking another vacation! Fantastic! I'll just sit here and let the infection continue to eat away at my brainz and then you just fuck off into the night and do whatever, right?

Hym "Ho! That is not a surprise at all. There was never a 'Well maybe we won't shut it down if so-and-so does whatever.' No. The government shutdown was always going to happen. They are going to do to the rest of you what they are doing to me and what they have been doing at those town halls. Walk away from you as you're talking to them. Go to their homes. Pull up the shutters. And wait it out. Wait for you to tire yourselves out. They are going to come back later with 'Alright guys we did it. We did the deal-contract and now we can get back to talking about UFOs. FuUuUuck me! No I'll just sit here though. Don't mind me."

by Hym Iam October 1, 2025

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Goderator

A Reddit moderator who bans you from their subreddit, deletes your posts and comments then typically blocks you, after, of course, having the last word. Usually the reason they do this is because they disagree with you, or simply because they are having a bad day, which is every day.

Their natural habitat is the basement of a parent or grandparent, and they have little to no power in their own lives. This is why they lash out on random people, because it's the only "power" that they have. They are the mighty, the powerful, the Gods of Reddit.

Jason: "What the hell? I posted a thread on the 90 day fiancé subreddit about what I thought of one of the episodes, but I didn't say anything rude or hateful, and I definitely didn't break any Reddit or 90 day fiance subreddit rules!"

Jessica: "Oh shit, you ran into a Goderator."

by Just an Average Jess October 11, 2025

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