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+{{a|g|[[File:Imagine.png|450px|thumb|center|Imagine having the lack of self-awareness to think this was a good idea.]]
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+}}{{quote|''Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. ''
-:''Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. ''
+:—St. Matthew, 6:ii.}}
-::St. Matthew, chapter 6, verse ii.
 A form of preaching to the choir with auxiliary moralising, to [[virtue-signalling|virtue signal]] is ostentatiously declare something that ''looks'' brave, but isn’t. A flamboyant yet safe, inexpensive and at the limit cowardly gesture that will not change anything or help anyone, but — without putting one at any personal risk or expense — is [[calculated]] to burnish one’s own, inevitably [[libtard]], credentials.