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#selfishness

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RonSupportsYou

"Perhaps, when Mr. Biden fought to run for a second term, he was acting on hope. But it’s hard not to think that he, and the people around him, were partly operating out of denial. Denial prevents people from being able to plan for the worst":
nytimes.com/2025/05/21/opinion
#Biden #health #ego #selfishness #politics

The New York Times · Opinion | Hope for the Best, but Plan for the Worst While PresidentBy Rachael Bedard
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

The enemies of democracy are now trying, by every means, to destroy our unity. The chief weapon they now use against us is propaganda, propaganda that appeals to selfishness, that comes in ever increasing quantities, with ever increasing violence, from across the seas. And it is disseminated within our own borders by agents or innocent dupes of foreign powers.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

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@AlexanderKingsbury @gimulnautti There is a diagnosis in psychiatry called #AltruisticNarcissism or #CommunalNarcissism Many #Libertarians and people in the #HelpingProfessions (Firemen, EMTs, Doctors, Nurses, Pastors) could be diagnosed as this. They don't help because they are #Altruistic. They help because they get positive attention. It's a cover for their #Selfishness.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissi
youtu.be/uZFQiz8bOTI?feature=s

en.wikipedia.orgNarcissistic personality disorder - Wikipedia
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Chris Lamke

John Kenneth Galbraith's observation about conservatism is as relevant as ever.

"The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

#conservatives #selfishness #usa #Economics #PoliticalPhilosophy

wist.info/galbraith-john-kenne

The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities. The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor. The man who has struck it rich in minerals, oil, or other bounties of nature is found explaining the debilitating effect of unearned income from the state. The corporate executive who is a superlative success as an organization man weighs in on the evils of bureaucracy. Federal aid to education is feared by those who live in suburbs that could easily forgo this danger, and by people whose children are in public schools. Socialized medicine is condemned by men emerging from Walter Reed Hospital. Social Security is viewed with alarm by those who have the comfortable cushion of an inherited income. Those who are immediately threatened by public efforts to meet their needs — whether widows, small farmers, hospitalized veterans, or the unemployed — are almost always oblivious to the danger.
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@flyhigh @GNUmatic When I was young I considered myself a #Libertarian. It was because I lived among angry, impoverished people who never lived outside the #BubbleOfPrivilege. I came to understand that it is a #Euphemism for #Selfishness. I then became a #Republican because I am #FiscallyConservative. I taught at a girls school 100km north of Nairobi, Kenya (84-86). When #TrentLott changed the #GOP to the party of Bigots. I became a #Libtard. I've been across the spectrum.

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