Mastodawn

Do Not Obey Nov 29, 2023

I am currently reading “Lost Cause”, and I really don’t know how @pluralistic is going to pull off a denouement that will defuse the seething rage I feel right now.

Why do we let billionaires poison the world? Why do we tolerate the owned politicians who enable them? Why do we respect a legal system which lacks any and all legitimacy? Why do we let a small minority of incomprehensibly dumb fucks dictate what is “right”?

Grr.

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Steven Lipton

@maugen @pluralistic It’s a tale as old as time. You don’t have to be religious to find a polemic about rulers nestled in I Samuel 8:11 about kings being greedy dumb f—s. the rest of Samuel and Kings goes on to prove the point. Most humans will do and sacrifice a lot to avoid taking responsibility for themselves and others.