28.02.2025 06:17 — 👍 4426    🔁 885    💬 54    📌 31

It will be said that a despot gives his subjects the assurance of civil tranquillity. Very well, but what does it profit them, if those wars against other powers which result from a despot's ambition, if his insatiable greed, and the oppressive demands of his administration, cause more desolation than civil strife would cause? What do the people gain if their very condition of civil tranquillity is one of their hardships? There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable? The Greeks lived in peace in the cave of Cyclops awaiting their turn to be devoured.

Rousseau would have been a great blogger I think.

28.02.2025 15:29 — 👍 2601    🔁 550    💬 39    📌 24

Hey #canada and #canadians, would you like an additional province that's basically Canadian already? Just tack Maine onto New Brunswick, we're a natural fit.

24.02.2025 14:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy to see you on here, especially as we got the bad news that our university is now being targeted and our funding withheld. Needed to see something bright!

24.02.2025 14:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Evil labors with vast power and perpetual success - in vain, preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in." JRR Tolkien, Letter 146 Evil cannot conquer forever! In the end, it was not the might of men or elves that unmade the power of the Ring: it was the hobbits, in their unassuming frailty, who brought about the downfall of Sauron. Though we may feel small, remember Frodo and take heart. Never resign yourself to despair. Keep going.

#tolkien #resistance #rememberFrodo #lordoftherings

08.02.2025 20:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please step aside and let AOC take over leadership. You feckless Dems are almost as bad for this country as Maga.

07.02.2025 23:16 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I don't have my grandfather around to ask how he survived two brutal authoritarian regimes, but we all have Tolkien. This fandom is booming right now.

06.02.2025 22:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is a great idea.

18.01.2025 03:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Agree it would be in bad taste.

18.01.2025 03:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0