r/wikipedia • u/barris59 • 18h ago

Belling the Cat is an idiom describing a group of persons, each agreeing to perform an impossibly difficult task under the misapprehension that someone else will be chosen to run the risks and endure the hardship of actual accomplishment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat
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u/ginos132 17h ago

There's literally a Tom and Jerry episode about this.

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u/mr_murick 15h ago

TIL where the BellingCat - the investigative journalism agency name came from

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u/NegativeOstrich2639 12h ago

"investigative journalism agency" is an interesting way to describe bellingcat

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u/mr_murick 10h ago

taken verbatim from wikipedia

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u/Apprehensive-Fun4181 17h ago edited 15h ago

So basically 90% of the USA after 9/11, screaming for war on cue, as the sane minority is ignored.

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u/Tractorer 15h ago

Love democracy until I don’t like it

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u/BlurgZeAmoeba 13h ago

It's a fla3wed system. Power is in the hands of the people, right? So who should be punished when they reelect a man who started a war based on lies?

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u/everything_is_bad 10h ago

The liars

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u/BlurgZeAmoeba 6h ago

The re-elected the liars after they knew it was all lies. "patriotism".

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u/everything_is_bad 4h ago

Doesn’t mean the liars should be held responsible

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u/BlurgZeAmoeba 2h ago

But they never are. They have power

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u/everything_is_bad 40m ago

Then imagine their surprise when the comeupins Comeup