Failures are a part of life, and they happen to the best of us. And when such misfirings happen, we often credit the person for taking a shot, at the very least.
But of course, not everyone deserves kudos for their efforts. Some of them deserve to be shamed and called out, especially if they attempted to conceal their sanctimonious behaviors. Unfortunately, some of the world’s most influential people are guilty of such faults, as you will see in this list.
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To Insult Linus Torvalds (Creator Of Linux) By Calling Him "Woke"
To Go To Lunch…
To Recruit A 17 Year Old For The Us Military
People often call out hypocritical behavior by telling the erring individual to “practice what they preach.” However, as neuroscientist and author Dr. Dean Burnett points out, maintaining that moral h**h ground is a considerable amount of work for anyone.
“Hypocrisy allows you to appear principled without having to be so, which is much easier than adhering to strict principles,” Dr. Burnett wrote in an article for The Guardian.
To Lie About Her Son
To Go After Ms. Rachel For Caring About Palestinian Children
To Vandalize An Anti Ice Mural
A person may also act hypocritically because they have a self-serving bias, which, according to Dr. Burnett, is part of human nature. As he noted, we inherently evaluate our capabilities far more highly than they really are because of our brain’s natural wiring.
“The brain is riddled with cognitive and memory biases that are geared towards making us feel like we’re good and decent and capable, no matter what the reality,” Dr. Burnett explained.
To Have A Free Press
To Win A Political Slap Fight With Australia
They are not "allowing children to starve". They are intentionally starving children. It's EVIL.
To Tell Canada What To Do
Behavioral scientist Erman Misirlisoy shared a similar sentiment, stating that self-interest is one of the strongest (if not the strongest) catalysts for hypocritical behavior. In an article for Medium, he noted that many people may say that “personal costs” are enough to outweigh the “intention to act morally.”
“Essentially, we all want to act fairly until we are put on the spot and are facing our own personal consequences,” he wrote.
To Get A Nobel Peace Prize
To Be Taken Seriously As Astronauts
she is right. She is talking about amazon sending women "to space" for 10 minutes, as a promotional stunt. Not NASA sending female astronauts to the ISS
To Ignore Epstein’s Victims In Hopes They Go Away
In his article, Misirlisoy pointed out another observation: we tend to hate hypocrites more than outright liars. According to him, it’s because the former employs a “double layer of deception,” which is one layer more than the latter, who simply says they “act morally when they haven’t.”
To Troll Newsom - Newsom Won This One
I didn't love him as a governor, but as a Trump troll he gets an A+++++++++++
Michigan citizens VOTED to have a redistricting committee comprised of 2 of each party to redraw. Perfect? no, effective? I like to think so. At least it's not done by fiat.
And in Ohio, the legislature ignored the requirements of the Constitutional amendment the citizens voted for, because what do we know about what we really want.
Load More Replies...To Attain Justice In The Trump Era
The files will never be released, every hard copy and digital version will be destroyed. Trump will eventually pardon Ghislaine as he thinks she has "suffered" enough, while believing she is a good person.
To Have A 'Bring Your Child To Work Day' Without An Hr Incident
yeah, anyone trying to kink shame should take a look at themselves and wonder why they are sexualising everything.
Misirlisoy dropped one unavoidable truth: we’ve all had our hypocritical moments. However, a sensible, upstanding person will subject themselves to honest self-criticism and admit when they fail to live up to their own standards.
“If we’re going to lie, that’s bad enough; let’s try not to fool and distract other people by pointing the finger,” he wrote. “(That) may be a good foundation for integrity.”
By Ibm In 1979 To Stand Against Computers Making Decisions For Humans (From Their 1979 Training Manual)
To Quickly And Quietly Ouster The C.d.c. Director For Rejecting Rjk Jr.’s Stance On Vaccination Policy. She Is Refusing To Leave!
To Be Gender Neutral
To Follow Customer's Anti-Pickle Request
To "Smoke" In Peace
To Give A Speech
To Get Trump To Snap
Sorry, but to be legit, it needs to have a 2" lift, and stacks coming up from the bed.
To Comply With The Law
To Enter Australia
Even Djokovic learned the hard way that Australia is not a FAFO country. You FO when you make your FA intentions known.
To Rewrite History
By Will Smith To Pass Off This AI-Generated Crowd As Authentic
To Make The X (Elon's) AI Not A Libtard
To Follow The Rule Of Law
To Build A C****************p
To Say "Is It Wrong To Be More Sexually Attracted To Your Daughter Than Your Wife," Like It's Actually A Question
To Be Against Cancel Culture
They honestly, never ever see the self own...it's like a wilfull blindness.
To Not Omit Tasmania
To Arrest Foreign Child A****r
To Convince People That This Was Good But The Homeless Are Unacceptable
To Keep A Republic
To Enforce The Law
At Censorship
To Criticize Coldplay
He didn't just say that. He asked some young fans where they were from and when they replied "Israel" he went silent for a few moments and then said he was going to treat them as humans regardless of where they come from. He followed this up by saying: “Although it's controversial maybe, I also want to welcome people in the audience from Palestine, out of the belief we're all equal humans.” It was a strange thing to say all round. Why would someone think a couple of women at a pop concert weren't human because of the country they come from and why would anyone think it would be controversial to allow Palestinians to attend a Coldplay concert?
To Hold A Press Conference In The Rain
To Maintain Canadian Sovereignty
To Deny A Genocide
And Trump wants a Nobel Prize for letting it happen, if not actually encouraging it!
To End Corruption
To Rig The Election
To Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs To The Us
MAGA indeed. Few were complaining, except the 'little people' when NAFTA was enacted. Isn't it ironic that the aim of making Mexico able to lift themselves out of poverty by enhancing their economy, has not dimmed the desire of Mexican citizens to come here(US) to make their lives better? FAIL!
To Protect The First Amendment
America hasn't really cared about protecting the first amendment in a long time, it's just a thing we say we do to feel superior over the "enemy"
To Grow Food And Not Be Forcibly Starved, As 95% Of Both U.S. Parties' Politicians Watch And Facilitate It
Israel is committing a genocide, but our politicians are too weak to say so.
To Distract From The Fact That Trump Is In The Epstein Files
To Just Give A Nice Compliment
To Clean Up Washington's Crime Scene (And End Up Cleaning Up Parks Instead)
It's alright...they train once a month...if they can't get out of it...just for this.
To Frame 'Stop K****g Children' As Jew Hate
To Count On Bernie's Support
At Bio War
It wasn't a fart...it was a full diaper...taco s******g himself daily...for years...is the worst kept "secret" in New York, and Washington.
To Have A Normal Childhood In The Us
To Sell Souvenirs To World Leaders In The Maga Gift Shop
To Make Another Terrible Image That Almost Represents The N**i Party In Ww2
To Prosecute America's Favorite Pro-Bono Food Delivery Worker
To Hide Advanced Ageing
But what the heck is the make-up covering?? And, given his facility with hair dye and orange face, why is it so noticeable??? curious, but don't really care.
To Say Protesting Doesn't Work
To Not Make Supporting A Predator Your Whole Personality
To Stop A Pedophile
To Protect Free Speech In America
“Israel is the national state, not of all its citizens, but only of the Jewish people.” - Benjamin Netanyahu, March 2019
To Convince People That The National Guard Should Be Rounding Up The Homeless And Dealing With Protesters While America Burns In Need Of Aid
To Be The Law & Order President
Since when has a little thing like law stopped the overgrown diaper wearing Great Orange Buffoon getting it's way.
To Make A Joke About Starving Palestinian Children
To Be A War Hero
To Have The Correct Response
To Be An American Farmer
To Make The Social Security Administration More Efficient
To Keep Children Healthy
To Create Fake Chats
To Push An Agenda
To Have Standards And Not Lack Self Awareness Entirely
To Deny Trump’s In Bad Shape
To Find A Parking Spot
To Make People Distracted From Epstein Files And Lie To People
To Appear Apologetic For Taking A Hat But It Went The Opposite Way
To Have A Spine
To Question Stephen King During An Ama
To Make America.......... Again?
To Make A Legible Map By The Cdc
To Justify The Occupation Of Dc
To Lie About Throwing (Probably Medical) Waste Out Of A White House Window
At A Gotcha! To The “Fake Gays”
To Intimidate Me (A Palestinian) By Doing A Hate Crime
To Look Like An Edgy Potus
To Resist The Mar A Lago Makeover
Not only are many of them about politics, but it's almost as if they are slanted in one direction. I know, it's only a feeling that I have.
Load More Replies...The headline " there was an attempt but the universe had other plans" had, to me at least, nothing to do with the content. Way to much america bad, trump bad, everything bad i could not care less about. Nothing funny either, complete waste of time
I agree, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, why get so hateful if you don't agree with it?
Load More Replies...Not only are many of them about politics, but it's almost as if they are slanted in one direction. I know, it's only a feeling that I have.
Load More Replies...The headline " there was an attempt but the universe had other plans" had, to me at least, nothing to do with the content. Way to much america bad, trump bad, everything bad i could not care less about. Nothing funny either, complete waste of time
I agree, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, why get so hateful if you don't agree with it?
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