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Fishercat<p>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.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privilege</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/privileges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privileges</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/masking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>masking</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CovidIsntOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsntOver</span></a></p>
Fishercat<p>The Cognitive Load of It All, or the Response Matrix [US/pols, prepping, Ω] by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@siderea" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>siderea</span></a></span> </p><p>"As our country slides into catastrophe, part of what a lot of people are struggling with is the sheer overwhelm of all there is to deal with cognitively, so it might be helpful to have a high-level overview, on a meta-level, of what all there is, just to help grapple with it all. This is not a map, this is like the coordinate system that gets overlaid on an old-school paper map"</p><p><a href="https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1869655.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">siderea.dreamwidth.org/1869655</span><span class="invisible">.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToDo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ToDo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SelfCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfCare</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prepping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prepping</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealth</span></a></p>
Fishercat<p>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. </p><p>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?</p><p>*Acquiring masks won't keep you from eating or paying rent.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rant</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/masking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>masking</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pandemics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsNotOver</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/medical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medical</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a></p>
Brad Rosenheim<p>Roses are red,<br>Rabbits eat violets.<br>Will we be able to solve<br>The climate crisis without class violence?</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ValentinesDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ValentinesDay</span></a> <br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/EcologicalEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EcologicalEmergency</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>I note from the US, to China, to the Global South, we're all raging at the breakdown of the Social Contract, as the Rich in every country have decided the correct response to Climate Change is Feudalism.</p><p>It is morally right to ice a Healthcare Insurance CEO because of the breakdown of the Social Contract. This is the world they wanted after all....</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Feudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Feudalism</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations has moved!<p>A quotation from Johnson, Lyndon:</p><p>«<br>The war on poverty is not a struggle simply to support people, to make them dependent on the generosity of others. It is a struggle to give people a chance. It is an effort to allow them to develop and use their capacities, as we have been allowed to develop and use ours, so that they can share…<br>»</p><p>Full quote, sourcing, notes: <br><a href="https://wist.info/johnson-lyndon/72482/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wist.info/johnson-lyndon/72482</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/equalopportunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>equalopportunity</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/waronpoverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waronpoverty</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/opportunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opportunity</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/sharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sharing</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/socialcontract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialcontract</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Richardson concludes,</p><p>"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."</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CommonGood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommonGood</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <br>/9</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>“'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.'”</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CommonGood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommonGood</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <br>/8</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>(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. </p><p>“'None of the papers ran even half as many Trump indictment stories as they did on Clinton’s server,' Gertz wrote."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CommonGood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommonGood</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <br>/7</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"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)</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CommonGood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommonGood</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <br>/6</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>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.</p><p>She writes, </p><p>"In Public Notice today, Noah Berlatsky listed the many articles claiming that Harris is avoiding the press…."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CommonGood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommonGood</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Atlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atlantic</span></a><br>/5</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>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.”</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CommonGood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommonGood</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Atlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atlantic</span></a><br>/4</p><p><a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-10-2024" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">heathercoxrichardson.substack.</span><span class="invisible">com/p/october-10-2024</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"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."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CommonGood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommonGood</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a><br>/3</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"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."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CommonGood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommonGood</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a><br>/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"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."</p><p>~ David Kurtz</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CommonGood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommonGood</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a><br>/1</p><p><a href="https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/what-it-looks-like-when-one-side" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.</span><span class="invisible">com/p/what-it-looks-like-when-one-side</span></a></p>
ErosBlog Bacchus<p>A fast comment I made on here about evolving public manners reminded me of a 2008 ErosBlog post that dove into how the rules have changed (in less than a human lifetime) on how much violence between strangers is socially acceptable, and for what reasons. Context: an old fart gives a swift kick to a squatting porn model making non-consensual public urination videos:</p><p><a href="https://www.erosblog.com/2008/02/09/enforcing-the-social-contract/?refresh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">erosblog.com/2008/02/09/enforc</span><span class="invisible">ing-the-social-contract/?refresh</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/Violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Violence</span></a> <a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/Kicking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kicking</span></a> <a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/Public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Public</span></a> <a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/Boxing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Boxing</span></a> <a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/FistFights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FistFights</span></a> <a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/PublicUrination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicUrination</span></a> <a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/Pissing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pissing</span></a> <a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/Pee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pee</span></a> <a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/Piss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Piss</span></a> <a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/Porn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Porn</span></a></p>
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