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3. "No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death;

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Sun Sep 21, 2025, 07:53 AM

Sep 21

and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" - Thomas Hobbes, 'Leviathan' (1651).

The world Trump and his fellow billionaires envision for the rest of us.

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I Look at This Country and I See a Stranger [View all] elleng Sep 21 OP

So true. Destruction of norms and civility is their goal. Onthefly Sep 21 #1

"Trump is remaking the country in his image: crude, harsh, gratuitously mean." Irish_Dem Sep 21 #2

"No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; sop Sep 21 #3

It's maybe worth reading the entire essay if you think it's wrong to murder somsai Sep 21 #4

I'm not in the "pro-murder camp" either. Far from it. Paladin Sep 21 #5