MetaPublius
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MetaPublius
@metapublius.bsky.social
Exploring metamodern forms of democracy.
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I keep putting this up all the time but this is only a portion of what is going to hit when this bill takes effect. Look it up on @House.gov. read the whole bill it'll scare the shit out of you.
October 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
"If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind." -Hamilton
January 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
", whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. " (2/🧵)
January 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"The method is simple. It is, first, discord, a dissemination of discord. A group --not too large -- a group that may be sectional or racial or political -- is encouraged to exploit (their) its prejudices through false slogans and emotional appeals...." (2/🧵)
December 24, 2024 at 2:19 AM
-Thomas Jefferson to John Wyche, May 19, 1809
December 21, 2024 at 2:51 PM
"They must either seize the chance for a better future or else become a nation which is satisfied in spirit merely to repeat indefinitely the monotonous measure of its own past." -Herbert Croly, The Promise of American Life, 1909 (2/2)
December 12, 2024 at 12:59 AM