Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 07/02/2026I respect the complaints against AI because of the corporate ownership model. It’s very capital intensive, which lends itself to centralization in the hands of VC backed companies. (Even tho DeepSeek et al exist) In a better world, these would be publicly funded megaprojects à la CERN 020
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 07/02/2026I mean, how do you think we get Fully Automated Luxury Communism, if not … automation 150
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 05/02/2026“When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die” 000
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 30/01/2026We must dare to dream in decades 000
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Do you plan to go kill people and get killed personally, or would you like someone else to do it for you 000
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 26/01/2026They cannot comprehend a good man genuinely trying to help his neighbors, and his people genuinely grieving his death. “and the Light shineth in darkness, and darkness comprehendeth it not.” 010
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 20/01/2026“professionals talk logistics” 020
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 17/01/2026“In a world too often governed by corruption and arrogance, it can be difficult to stay true to one's philosophical and literary principles” 010
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 17/01/2026If they were going to escalate to “mowing down protestors with automatic fire, thousands dead, piles of bodies in the street” anyway - why haven’t they yet? Presumably there’s a reason 110
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 16/01/2026most unrealistic detail is their posts weren’t rejected for having the wrong X-Origin-Universe header set 010
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 14/01/2026varies by who’s saying it yes but to me one of the definitional questions is “do you want a dictatorship of the proletariat or do you not want a dictatorship of anybody” 000
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Liberalism was never, in fact, supposed to have any notion of meaning “cowardice or lack of conviction”, and its high time we show everyone exactly how much it doesn’t 000
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 11/01/2026The thing is. If you are in fact going to take the “do crimes” path, you have to be actually strategic and tactical about it in order to be effective. Or else you just throw your life away against the wall of the state. You can’t just firebomb a Walmart and expect it to lead to Utopia 010
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 11/01/2026They will break against us. We will win 000
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Firebombing a Walmart presumably 060
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 09/07/2025I’m skeptical of “high coordination” tbh 010
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Again: these are not the actions and tone of a regime that is secure in its power 010
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 20/06/2025If you actually thought the end was coming hoarding ammo in a solitary compound is not the way, anyways 000
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Given the recent MN assassin impersonating an officer, it’s only a matter of time before someone fires on these unidentified men claiming to be ICE in self defense The resulting court cases will be interesting, to say the least 010
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Logistics Rules Everything Around Me 020
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 12/06/2025yeah like, this is bad, but mostly because of what it indicates about the Trump admin, but less because of what it indicates about enlisted personnel 010
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 10/06/2025All hard problems are coordination problems in disguise 000
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 10/06/2025statecraft, the acquisition, consolidation and effective use of state power, is a real skill and the current fuckers do not know how to do it 021
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 10/06/2025That doesn’t mean it’ll work An American military dictatorship will not hold power for long, if it even manages to successfully consolidate power in the first place 030
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Langston Hughes already got this one covered 000
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025The twitch-streamer-ification of everything continues 020
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 22/02/2025 No. I don’t like a single thing about Donald Trump or his policies. Which is why I voted against him. What? 110
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 22/02/2025damn, voting as a statement of identity ~= purchasing as a statement of identity I should not be surprised by this connection, and yet 000
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 21/02/2025they were right that we live in an age of moral degeneracy and the virtues of the past have been lost they were just talking about themselves, as usual 030
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Just say bodybuilding is MtM gender affirming care 010
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Yes. Not just funding homebuyers but causing more to be built. Zoning laws are local, though, so idk how much the Federal government can do there 000
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025This depends on the law and context It's not pro-social to run red lights and endanger other drivers, for example. It's not pro-social to sexually assault people, or poop in public transit. It may, sometimes, be pro-social to engage in civil disobedience, or interfere with ICE operations, etc. 100
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Liberalism means belief in political norms, rules and social contracts *and* the readiness to enforce those norms against illiberal, anti-social would-be tyrants not all of us have forgotten the second 010
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025If you cheer for an asteroid to cause widespread damage, destruction and death (without ending humanity, as this one won’t) - how is that better than advocating for genocide 010
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025You understand all the groups we fight to protect, such as trans / queer people and POC, are included in “humanity” and will also be destroyed if humanity is destroyed A love of humanity is the whole *reason* to be progressive 100
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Retvrn to American Civic Religion No kings, no tyrants 010
Reposted by Social Contract RespecterAdam @adam35.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The Republic Endures 13736158
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Yes, you can You fight Nazis with violence (or a credible threat thereof), ultimately, but words and lawsuits give legitimacy to the violence You need to conclusively show they've broken the law & social contract before you legitimately enforce the contract upon them 030
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025the time of Solarpunk is nigh 020
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025This is why, as leftists, our mission must be to reject nihilism & destruction and promote a positive vision of a better, more meaningful world 010
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025It’s all “boring pleasant bureaucrats vs sexy murder poets”, isn’t it 010
Reposted by Social Contract RespecterFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/02/2025It’s not too late to improve the situation until we’re all dead. This is another of my own key takeaways from reading a lot of history. 739155
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 16/02/2025The motto of the 101st Stancilist Brigade 1330
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 14/02/2025At a certain level, wealth does not represent personal possessions but the power to direct the productive capacity of society, and it is anti-democratic to concentrate that power in such a small number of hands 070
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 14/02/2025The most politically effective strategy is courage 011
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Reconstruction 2 is going to be amazing 020
Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 14/02/2025When Dems hold power, they use it to pass policy that is better (though not perfect) than R policy. ACA, CHIPS, IRA, etc. At state levels, things like free school lunches. These matter. If Harris had won, she would not be doing the same things the Trump admin is doing now 100