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How did you use your privilege today? How are you planning to leverage it tomorrow? It's a cold hard rain pummeling us; maybe think about sharing your umbrella with someone who doesn't have one.
#privilege #privileges #SocialContract #MutualAid #racism #disability #fascism #masking #CovidIsntOver
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." - Martin Luther King
Good health is a temporary privilege. Some people get to enjoy it for most of their lives. Others for a shorter time, or not at all. If you're healthy now, and it's *possible for you to mask up to protect others, but you don't, you're either an asshole, or a short-sighted fool.
Even if there *weren't* another pandemic starting, if you live long enough, your health will deteriorate so you'll need others to protect you. If you don't help normalize that behavior today, why do you expect other people will take care of you when you need it?
*Acquiring masks won't keep you from eating or paying rent.
#rant #masking #pandemics #CovidIsNotOver
#health #medical #SocialContract
Roses are red,
Rabbits eat violets.
Will we be able to solve
The climate crisis without class violence?
#ValentinesDay
#ClimateCrisis
#SocialContract
#EcologicalEmergency
The liberty we obtain by being members of civilized society, would be licentiousness, if it allowed us to harm others, and slavery, if it prevented us from benefiting ourselves. True liberty, therefore, allows each individual to do all the good he can to himself, without injuring his neighbor.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 226 (1820)
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#quote #quotes #quotation #freedom #liberty #licentiousness #slavery #socialcontract #society
Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. It will then have been proved that, among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case, and pay the cost.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1863-08-26) to James C. Conkling
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#quote #quotes #quotation #ballot #bullet #civilwar #democracy #elections #freedom #insurrection #peace #politicalviolence #revolution #socialcontract #violence #voting
Letter (1863-08-26) to James C. Conkling - Lincoln, Abraham | WIST Quotations
Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. It will then have been proved that, among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the…WIST Quotations
Hear me out, #Mastodon. It's past time to #normalize #jurynullification for plaintiffs that that have destroyed the #environment and #socialcontract.
When The Slumlord Looting Starts...
#slumlords #slumlord #crapitalism #capitalism #capitalismkills #socialcontract #establishment #theestablishment #lafire #lafires #losangeles #losangelesfire #palisadesfire #eatonfire
The Paradox of Freedom and Coercion in Rousseau’s Social Contract
🤔 The paradox in Rousseau: obeying laws from the general will is seen as freedom, but within a representative system, it can lead to majority tyranny. How do we reconcile individual consent with imposed laws? 🏛️ Exploring this tension through Nussbaum’s capabilities approach reveals paths toward authentic representation and collective action. 🔍 #Rousseau #SocialContract #Freedom #Nussbaum #Justice…
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The Paradox of Freedom and Coercion in Rousseau’s Social Contract
🤔 The paradox in Rousseau: obeying laws from the general will is seen as freedom, but within a representative system, it can lead to majority tyranny. How do we reconcile individual consent with im…Homo Hortus
Richardson concludes,
"In the past in the U.S., when the media has appeared to become captive to established interests, new media have begun to give a voice to the opposition."
Note how the phrase "captive to established interests" is a huge indictment of the corporate media in this critically important election cycle, and an explanation of why those media have abandoned any pretense of defending democracy.
#KamalaHarris #Trump #democracy #media #CommonGood #SocialContract
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“'Indeed, every paper ran more front-page stories that mentioned Clinton’s server [than] they did total stories that referenced Trump’s indictment.' 'The former president continues to benefit from news outlets grading him on a massive curve,' Gertz wrote, 'resulting in relatively muted coverage for his nakedly authoritarian, unfathomably racist, and allegedly criminal behavior.'”
#KamalaHarris #Trump #democracy #media #CommonGood #SocialContract
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(continued from /6) "in the week after then-FBI director James Comey announced new developments in the story than they did about the unsealing of a new filing in Trump’s federal criminal indictment for alleged crimes related to the January 6 insurrection earlier this month.
“'None of the papers ran even half as many Trump indictment stories as they did on Clinton’s server,' Gertz wrote."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #democracy #media #CommonGood #SocialContract
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"In a piece today, Matt Gertz of the media watchdog Media Matters reports that five major newspapers—the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post—produced nearly four times as many articles about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s email server in 2016" (continued in /7)
#KamalaHarris #Trump #democracy #media #CommonGood #SocialContract
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Richardson finds this endorsement an echo of the Atlantic's 1860 warning that the presidential election “is a turning-point in our history.” As she also notes, both endorsements in 1860 and now show a new press challenging an older system.
She writes,
"In Public Notice today, Noah Berlatsky listed the many articles claiming that Harris is avoiding the press…."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #democracy #media #CommonGood #SocialContract #Atlantic
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Heather Cox Richardson looks at the Atlantic's endorsement of Kamala Harris, only the fifth time it has made such an endorsement since its founding in 1857 and third time it has endorsed Trump's opponent. The journal says that Trump is “one of the most personally malignant and politically dangerous candidates in American history.”
#KamalaHarris #Trump #democracy #media #CommonGood #SocialContract #Atlantic
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.…
October 10, 2024
Hurricane Milton made landfall yesterday evening as a Category 3 storm just south of Sarasota, Florida.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"Most of political journalism fails to meet the moment because it has chosen to maintain – or is unable to break free of – the illusion that the 2024 campaign is another in the long line of great quadrennial public debates engaged in mostly good faith by two sides seeking to coalesce the will of the people around their preferred vision for the country."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #democracy #media #CommonGood #SocialContract
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"It is a mark of the poor health of our democracy that democracy itself is on the ballot at all. A choice between democracy or not democracy isn’t a choice but an existential threat that doesn’t sustain or nourish civic life."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #democracy #media #CommonGood #SocialContract
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"The country is poised at a great fork in the road, with a historically significant decision to be made between democracy or authoritarianism, pluralism or cultism, the rule of law or Trumpian retribution. Yet the national political conversation, the news coverage of it, the pace of daily events doesn’t seem to be rising to the momentousness of the occasion."
~ David Kurtz
#KamalaHarris #Trump #democracy #media #CommonGood #SocialContract
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What It Looks Like When One Side Rejects Democracy
INSIDE: Donald Trump ... Barack Obama ... Ethel KennedyDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)