At @theblindsp0t we think about the Roman Empire all the time, and since we also have a penchant for looking at the world through the prism of Anacyclosis (the theory of rotational political change) we also like to commemorate the Ides of March formally. Here’s this year’s contribution from @plebsmedia https://t.co/GyY1KiZmk3
"Where you failed with a dagger, may we succeed with a ratio."
From our #IdesOfMarch special to #Brutus. Here, we consider the question: just how does one go about saving a republic?
@izakaminska How much have you thought about #SPQR today, @elonmusk?
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Today is #ConstitutionDay.
Something about which no intelligent student of history can be smug.
For the past generation or two have revealed that the Constitution is but a brake that cannot halt the wheel it was conceived to arrest.
#Anacyclosis
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In 1776, John Adams described to Abigail Adams the Lex Sempronia Agraria of Tiberius Gracchus as a "genuine republican Measure".
In 2023, he would describe something of the sort, as adapted for modern economic circumstances, as an urgent measure.
#Anacyclosis
#OTD 10/30/1735, John Adams was born in Braintree, MA. Writing to wife Abigail from Philly in 1777, he mused “Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it.”
Happy Birthday John Adams 🇺🇸, born #OTD 1735
Adams 🇺🇸 is 1 of 8 Presidents born as British subjects in "British America" 🇬🇧:
- George Washington
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- James Madison
- Monroe
- John Quincy Adams
- Andrew Jackson
- William Henry Harrison
#POTUS 🎂🎈
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Our Beloved 2nd First Lady and 1st 2nd Lady Abigail Adams.
Wife of 2nd President John Adams.
Mother of 6th President John Quincy Adams.
Her Words Shine like the Legend she is and Grows in Popularity.
#abigailadams@VICEPOTUSDAY#johnadams#firstlady#johnquincyadams
A memorandum from #Gracchus to the People of the United States on the need to enforce a social aspect ratio of 10,000:1.
The outcomes of the top households must rise and fall lockstep with the calculation of the median net worth.
#Rationism#Capitalism
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Perhaps the most important figure of the American Revolution without a memorial on the National Mall, John Adams was born #OTD in 1735. Efforts to honor the "Atlas of Independence" & our 2nd president with a memorial in #WashingtonDC have been persistent, but unsuccessful so far.
Happy 286th Birthday to 1st Vice President and 2nd President JOHN ADAMS.
Born on October 30, 1735, he is 286 Today.
Visitors in Massachusetts at his Tomb to Remember one of America's Greatest Presidents.
#JohnAdams#Massachusetts#VicePresidentsDay@VICEPOTUSDAY#usa#Quincy
Happy #LaborDay America!
Fun Fact: Labor's been screwed out of $30 TRILLION since World War II.
This exceeds the entire net worth of Japan!
Based on annual GDP labor share delta from 1947 (1st year of @BLS_gov data).
No wonder Americans are furious.
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#JohnAdams knew:
The LEGAL FORM of a Democratic Republic is a matter of CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.
but the POLITICAL SUBSTANCE of a Democratic Republic is a matter of HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS.
No INDEPENDENT MIDDLE CLASS, no Democratic Republic.
#Rationism
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