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Social Contract Respecter

@socialcontractor.bsky.social
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Third Amendment originalist

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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I 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
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I mean, how do you think we get Fully Automated Luxury Communism, if not … automation
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
“When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die”
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
We must dare to dream in decades
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Do you plan to go kill people and get killed personally, or would you like someone else to do it for you
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
They 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.”
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“professionals talk logistics”
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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”
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
If 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
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
most unrealistic detail is their posts weren’t rejected for having the wrong X-Origin-Universe header set
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
varies 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”
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Liberalism 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
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The 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
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
They will break against us. We will win
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Firebombing a Walmart presumably
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I’m skeptical of “high coordination” tbh
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Again: these are not the actions and tone of a regime that is secure in its power
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
If you actually thought the end was coming hoarding ammo in a solitary compound is not the way, anyways
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Given 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
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Logistics Rules Everything Around Me
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
yeah 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
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
All hard problems are coordination problems in disguise
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
statecraft, the acquisition, consolidation and effective use of state power, is a real skill and the current fuckers do not know how to do it
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
That 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
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Langston Hughes already got this one covered
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The twitch-streamer-ification of everything continues
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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?
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
damn, voting as a statement of identity ~= purchasing as a statement of identity I should not be surprised by this connection, and yet
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
they 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
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Yes. We will win
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Just say bodybuilding is MtM gender affirming care
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Yes. 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
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This 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.
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Liberalism 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
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
If 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
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
You 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
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Retvrn to American Civic Religion No kings, no tyrants
Scene from "The Apotheosis of Washington". The scene depicts a woman fighting for liberty with a raised sword, a cape, and a helmet and shield (in the colors of the U.S. flag) trampling figures representing Tyranny and Kingly Power. To Freedom's left assisting her is a fierce bald eagle (the national bird of the United States) carrying arrows and a thunderbolt (reminiscent of the arrows carried by the eagle in the Great Seal of the United States).
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Adam @adam35.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The Republic Endures
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Yes, 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
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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 19/02/2025
Join or die cartoon in pride colors
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
the time of Solarpunk is nigh
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This is why, as leftists, our mission must be to reject nihilism & destruction and promote a positive vision of a better, more meaningful world
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
It’s all “boring pleasant bureaucrats vs sexy murder poets”, isn’t it
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/02/2025
It’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.
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The motto of the 101st Stancilist Brigade
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Here for it
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
At 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
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The most politically effective strategy is courage
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Reconstruction 2 is going to be amazing
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Social Contract Respecter @socialcontractor.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
When 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
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