platoinct.bsky.social
Psychiatrist, philosopher, social thinker, inspired by Socrates, Hegel, Arendt; enamored of Being, which we used to share before materialism estranged us from each other.
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I’d be ok with his being *self-exported*
But 2m Catholics might not😐
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Yes
As they are people, they will also have the capacity to do or say the unexpected, since in life we discover ourselves as we live:
Forster makes the point that the writer must not force his characters to do what they don’t want to do.
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Presence in the Public Square
IS the response to Admin attempt to Erase Politics,
Which is what it is,
Replacing it with fiction📌
…idiotic fiction.
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“Socialism” is the ‘smear word’ used by invidious men
To persuade the public of their own purity
While robbing them.
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Ha!
If they want to bring Christianity into school,
They should follow the teachings of its inspiration,
Rather than pride themselves on their own declamation📌
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The mantle of North America goes to Canada 🇨🇦🍁 🇨🇦
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“Signaling” illegal separatism,
AVOID Fed record-keeping, EVADE scrutiny.
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Tax Cuts💥
While top bracket was 70% tax [down from 91% thru ‘62], it was dumb to take home big $
Better to reinvest it in worker wages so they could “buy the cars” [HFord, 1913!]
We did, it worked
Tax cuts broke it apart
My graph of tax rate/inequity 1910-2010
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‘Personality’ has replaced policy, the outcome of 40+ yrs of Republican atrophy
When in ‘64, Goldwater lost in a landslide,
Rs resolved NEVER to tell the truth abt policy📌
Power was to come from dissolving politics into suprematist fantasy📌
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Children who experience love will enter the world accordingly.
One cannot be *taught* to love any more than one can be *taught* to be hungry:
All it produces is the experience of *being taught,* and the result depends on one’s feeling for the teacher:
Is he/she a loving person?
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Yes
And a device for securing southern colonies’ endorsement, via enhanced repr’n in House.
We lose sight of how narrowly Const’n reached requisite 9 state approval📌
(VA was opposed, until Madison cd reassure Henry that townsfolk cd keep muskets to man slave patrols [2nd Am])
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Even this “serfdom” is nothing but nostalgia,
‘Makin’ Thunderbirds’ is done by Robots now,
Corp profits depend on max production with min wage costs:
It is an unsolved problem, unaddressed, and growing.
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The underlying problem
Is that ALL production must be absorbed by consumption,
And econ well-being depends on Production, which reaches absurd levels:
“The fault is not in our stars, dear Brutus, it is in our logic”
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Ah
As in early Genesis, Goodness in one evokes Shame and Envy in another…
Cain therefore slew Abel, and Barabbas was someone the people could understand:
The problem is fear of one’s unfathomed self.
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Politics
Is in the Public Square📌
If a power is installed that replaces the Public Purpose with cruelty and deception,
Replacing our civic bonds with corrupt purposes, and rancor among the people instead of respect,
The People must reclaim the Public Square📌
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Serious indeed📌
Microplastic contamination in bees
-increases disease susceptibility
-contributes to colony collapse
-impairs memory
-lowers pollination
And in plants,
-thwarts fertilization.
We have created this looming crisis.
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A lesson in how to stand up to bullies📌
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Oh, those *left-wing* capital markets that have ‘attacked’ his reputation,
Dropped Tesla’s share price,
And left-wing car markets that cut his profits by 72%!
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It is always about ‘campaigning,’ the *asserting* of oneself,
And those who seek to assert do so in order to *hide* themselves in the act of asserting📌
Jesus was concerned with *being* which is the opposite of asserting, and is destroyed by it.
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Indeed,
But the central point is that these idiots are “standing” APART from the Govt that WE stand for:
Their intent is cabalistic to begin with📌
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Bingo📌
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Beyond everything else wrong with this (insecure, reckless, grandstanding),
Wd note: use of Signal, by intent, was to ELUDE Federal Record-keeping📌
Itself a grievous, separatist disloyalty📌
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Their express purpose is to evade accountability and even history, evading Fed Records Act,
Indicating a radical separatism from Public Government itself:
We installed a cabal that seeks to replace *us* with *them*
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Habeas corpus, since 1166 [Henry II of England]
Has affirmed the prerogative of Courts to adjudicate,
So Trump et al are ignoring 859 yrs of settled law.
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He knew that the American experiment was flying asunder under the inconsistencies that put human beings at the mercy of inhuman powers,
And that it was the duty of Govt to make us a ‘more perfect union’
And he had the self-possession to hear all voices with equanimity.
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Rule of Law!
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Some people, it is said, have ‘sold their souls to the devil’
But he is someone who has sold his soul to himself.
(And stiffed the buyer)
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Habeas corpus, since 1166 [Henry II of England]
Has affirmed the prerogative of Courts to adjudicate,
So Trump et al are ignoring 859 yrs of settled law.
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How mild and ordinary that time was!
But it reflected what GOP concluded after Goldwater’s landslide loss in ‘64:
“Never tell public the truth”📌
In ‘68, RMN colluded to kibosh VN peace talks, which wd hv given HHH a win, and which FBI had on tape.
W’gate burglars in ‘72 sought that FBI file📌
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This time is far worse.
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Ah
‘Waste, Fraud, and Abuse’ has gone from being a dubious claim abt Fed Govt
To being Central Elements of THIS Govt’s practice📌
“We didn’t find much, so we’re DOING A LOT OF IT.”
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“Waste, Fraud, and Abuse”
were never economic realities, merely a handy justification for taking aim at Govt📌
But “Lay Waste”
“Commit Fraud”
and “Inflict Abuse”
have become the Action Plan📌
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Let’s not ignore 2 factors:
1) a huge increase in ‘clinicism, -> to ‘diagnose because now we can, armed with criteria,
And 2) a vast rise in parental tension, as a desperate drive to succeed has produced an ‘unbreathable’ emotional environment for children forming themselves,
So they recoil📌
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Ah, yes
But thankfully they are really bad at almost everything (except creating Waste, perpetrating Fraud, and inflicting Abuse…)
So there’s opportunity, through collective resolve, on each matter and in every way, to resist, to push back,
And to turn the political tables
💥
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I’m thinking they use ouija boards…😐
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If it were, Board cd be voted out, CEO replaced, and all be sued for defrauding shareholders📌
But whole scheme was based on 3 lies
1) Fed debt is problem
2) US credit, like Argentina’s, in peril, needing ‘chainsaw’
3) “Waste, fraud, abuse” is fact:
NO, not fact but Amin “Action Plan” instead📌📌
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Yes!
Thus are they all, deficient beings who must borrow a myth to replace whatever uselessness they would see if they were to look in a mirror without rushing to adorn the image with something imaginary.
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Yes, and I expect it will grow
- The “banality of evil,” to use Arendt’s apt phrase, is not vibrantly inspiring📌
-To allege (falsely) that there is “waste, fraud, and abuse” is one thing, but then to COMMIT them as your plan of action is to reveal yourself as a liar📌
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“Public sentiment” is not to be dismissed📌
Trump’s only ‘hold’ is threat of primary challenges to incumbents,
And THAT depends ENTIRELY on public sentiments:
If it turns away from Trump, his power to compel loyalty IS GONE:
Only then would Rs join to turn things around.
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Yes,
Ball is back in District Court, which could issue contempt citations,
Which, if appealed, are likely to be affirmed:
If/when SC affirms, AND Trump defies it,
HISTORY will register, and Public Outcry will intensify.
This is abt habeas corpus, NOT abt ‘foreign affairs’📌
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Yes, Roberts will have to re-enter,
And test Trump against the Constitution:
If Admin defies flagrantly, the public’s response will test the question:
Does Trump want this so soon?
Wd this lose him the public?
If so, his leverage over Congress melts quickly!
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Spot on📌
Angry at exclusion, much of public wants vengeance,
And long failure to tax wealth adequately has bred it:
In US, 80’s tax cuts broke New Deal framework, which rt-wing were intent to destroy, as Dems diddled w/ neolib’sm,
And lost to a savage boy seeking to trash his own house.