Mastodawn

"It’s not so much that there’s 50-something percent of the country that is committed to Trumpism. But there’s just a huge amount of the country that is not doing well—and I mean that in an emotional way, I mean that in a political way, civically."

#Trump #MAGA #SocialContract #individualism #CommonGood #solidarity
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William Lindsey

4d ago

"If we don’t take seriously some of these more underlying problems—that we are a deeply isolated and lonely and distrustful country that is focused on material wellbeing and status and is more dislocated and civically apathetic than maybe we’ve ever been—we’re going to get more Trumps, because that’s just fertile breeding ground for people like him."

~ Alan Elrod

#Trump #MAGA #SocialContract #individualism #CommonGood #solidarity
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https://newrepublic.com/article/208976/transcript-trump-america-deeply-unwell-it-time-say

Transcript: Trump’s America Is Deeply Unwell, and It’s Time to Say So

As Trump reveals his unfitness in stark new ways, a political theorist argues that our election of this man to the presidency twice should prompt deep introspection about what we’ve become.

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Kevin Stevens Apr 10

Knowledge is power. Feel free to help yourself to some:
https://youtu.be/bbbgfnpJN9w?si=9MD_0d5zXb6ouDsx
#uschamberofcommerce #lewispowell #powellmemo #useconomics #consumer #labor #environmental #socialcontract #workers #shareholder #politicalcombat #uspol #jointorganizing #jointfundingn #tradeorganization #bigbusiness #businesscrusade #corporatepolitics #lobbyists #ftc #federaltradecommission #consumeradvocate #congress #advertising #reaganadministration #corporatemisbehavior #corporateamerica #scotus #citizensunited

How the Corporate Takeover of American Politics Began | Robert Reich

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Silkester Mar 8

There Is Reason For Hope. Here's The Proof - Barry's Economics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66wen6C4UNw

#NeuroScience #Apathy #Change #SystemicOppression #Default #Community #Resistance #SocialContract #HumanRights #Empathy #Hope

There Is Reason For Hope. Here's The Proof - Barry's Economics

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WIST Quotations Feb 9

A quotation from Shakespeare

Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise
Hath chid down all the majesty of England;
Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,
Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage,
Plodding tooth ports and costs for transportation,
And that you sit as kings in your desires,
Authority quite silent by your brawl,
And you in ruff of your opinions clothed;
What had you got? I’ll tell you. You had taught
How insolence and strong hand should prevail,
How order should be quelled; and by this pattern
Not one of you should live an aged man,
For other ruffians, as their fancies wrought,
With self same hand, self reasons, and self right,
Would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes
Would feed on one another.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Sir Thomas More, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 55ff (c. 1592)

More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #anarchy #breakingthelaw #conflict #foreigners #immigration #insecurity #lawbreaking #lawlessness #mob #mobrule #mobviolence #riot #socialcontract #violence #xenophobia

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🌱🏴‍🅰️🏳️‍⚧️🐧🔧📎 Ambiyelp Feb 5

@log

I know what the social contract is in relation to political philosophy, I'm familiar with Hobbes, what I'm curious about is how it relates to your personal understanding of why you get to hurt innocent chickens

What precisely about the specific social contract you are invoking means that you should be allowed to hurt chickens who have done nothing to hurt you

#Ethics #ThomasHobbes #SocialContract #PoliticalPhilosophy #Chickens #Speciesism #HumanSupremacy

Ellis C. A. Arcwolf (Author)Feb 3

LOL.

Homelessness gave me COVID. Thank you, Pittsburgh, for giving so little of a shit that you killed me.

#Pittsburgh #COVID19 #Homelessness #PublicHealth #Sarcasm #RadicalHonesty #NoirLife #Absurdism #SocialContract #SteelCity #LivingInTheVoid

Aimee Surprenant Jan 28

Americans are socialized from an early age that if you can’t help everyone, you shouldn’t help _anyone_. It starts in kindergarten—did you bring enough for the whole class? If not, then no one can have any. This paralyzes us and makes us feel guilty rather than good when we help just one person—what about all the other deserving people you aren’t helping? It has partially led to our crisis of empathy. Is it the same all over the world?

#giving #generosity #charity #community #SocialContract

Jürgen Jan 20

Heute bin ich wieder mal nicht gut bestrahlt im #opnv #öpnvtales #opnvgeschichten : allgemein scheint das ja inzwischen der akzeptiert #socialcontract zu sein, dass man immer zwei Sitze blockiert. Einer für den eigenen Hintern und einer für die Tasche. Was heute neu war: dass auch noch für die Tasche das kleine Tischen runtergeklappt wird. Und dass man an der engsten Stelle des Bahnsteigs stehenbleibt um sich lasziv in den mantel reinzuräkeln passiert auch nicht oft. Was ein asoziales Gesocks!

Srijit Kumar Bhadra Jan 17

Human conflicts trouble me. And I am not a subject matter expert. Yet, I have been reflecting on the dominant empirical patterns in human conflicts that I am aware of. At their core, these conflicts arise from hunger and existential threat. Over the past two centuries, economic desperation, scarcity of resources, and a lack of trust have consistently served as enabling conditions for war and major unrest. This lack of trust may appear as weakened social or political institutions, mutual suspicion among groups or nations, or institutional collapse. These factors often intertwine with power politics, ethnic divisions, nationalism, ideological struggles, and failures in governance.

Prosperity alone does not guarantee peace. However, populations that are well fed, economically secure, embedded in high-trust societies, and protected by functioning social contracts generally remain calm and non-violent. In contrast, desperation and distrust create conditions that make mobilization into conflict far more likely. Exceptions may exist, but this pattern holds broadly.

#Human #Security #Trust #Peace #ResourceScarcity #SocialContract #EconomicDesperation