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Coach Pāṇini ®The Sons of the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#American</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Enlighment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enlighment</a> were steeped in a classical education and valued <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtue</a> above all else.Because the Creepy Weirdos have no redeeming values, they hate that about themselves, and insist on generating alternate <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> that doesn’t make them look like human waste.<a href="https://www.404media.co/white-house-partners-with-prageru-to-make-ai-slopified-founding-fathers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.404media.co/white-house-partners-with-prageru-to-make-ai-slopified-founding-fathers/</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®You cannot “teach to test” on <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtue</a>.<a href="https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/02/29/normalize-expressing-virtues/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/02/29/normalize-expressing-virtues/</a>

WIST Quotations<a href="https://wist.info/marcus-aureleus/77557/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from Marcus Aurelius</a><blockquote>As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has tackled the game, a bee when it has made the honey, so a man when he has done a good act does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season.   [ἵππος δραμών, κύων ἰχνεύσας, μέλισσα μέλι ποιήσασα, ἄνθρωπος δ̓ εὖ ποιήσας οὐκ ἐπιβοᾶται, ἀλλὰ μεταβαίνει ἐφ̓ ἕτερον, ὡς ἄμπελος ἐπὶ τὸ πάλιν ἐν τῇ ὥρᾳ τὸν βότρυν ἐνεγκεῖν.]</blockquote>Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 5, ch. 6 (5.6) (AD 161-180) [tr. Long (1862)] Sourcing, notes, other translations: <a href="https://wist.info/marcus-aureleus/77557/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7755…</a><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotation</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#qotd</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=marcusaurelius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#marcusaurelius</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=marcusaureliusmeditations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#marcusaureliusmeditations</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=boasting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#boasting</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=carryon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#carryon</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=character" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#character</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=gooddeed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gooddeed</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=humannature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humannature</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfaggrandizement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfaggrandizement</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfawareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfawareness</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtue</a>

anilmcUnarmada for Gaza: Long bars, extreme content

Coach Pāṇini ®<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kdkorte" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@kdkorte</a> Maybe it should be about cultivating <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtue</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/humanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanism</a>.The alternative got us here.

Coach Pāṇini ®If you can’t laugh at your country, you might not be a <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/patriot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#patriot</a>.A <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#American</a> nationalist, maybe.But without any <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtue</a>.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18NxSCsi4r/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18NxSCsi4r/</a><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/comedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#comedy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/NimeshPatel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NimeshPatel</a>

M. Grégoire“Virtue is like a muscle that grows with its exercise,” Carney said, in about as brief as summary of Aristotelian-Thomistic ethics as can be imagined at a political rally. “We become just by doing just acts; brave by doing brave acts. When we are kind, kindness grows.”Fr. <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/RaymondJDeSouza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RaymondJDeSouza</a> While Poilievre is humbled, Carney calls for humility <a href="https://nationalpost.com/opinion/while-poilievre-is-humbled-carney-calls-for-humility" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nationalpost.com/opinion/while-poilievre-is-humbled-carney-calls-for-humility</a><a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/MarkCarney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MarkCarney</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/CanPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CanPol</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtue</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/NationalPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NationalPost</a>

Wisdom in SpaceSearch others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. -- Benjamin Franklin⬆ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wisdom</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quotes</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BenjaminFranklin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BenjaminFranklin</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Virtue</a>⬇ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Photography</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Panorama</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TheMaze" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheMaze</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dollhouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dollhouse</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Canyonlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Canyonlands</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Utah</a>

Paul Houle✊ Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”<a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/04/melenchon-virtue-universalism-humanity-creolization/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jacobin.com/2025/04/melenchon-virtue-universalism-humanity-creolization/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creoles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#creoles</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtue</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/france" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#france</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®Politics, White Supremacy, Immigration, Nazis In Charge

Coach Pāṇini ®<a href="https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@GhostOnTheHalfShell</a> I highly recommend this book: <a href="https://a.co/d/cp6fgP7" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://a.co/d/cp6fgP7</a>And if you have 20 min, my Inconvenient Truth-like meditation on the subject, viewing the USA like a platform product: <a href="https://youtu.be/tUbrn3HhOPg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/tUbrn3HhOPg</a><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#American</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/republicanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#republicanism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtue</a>

David August ❌👑Representative <a href="https://mastodon.social/@RepCasten" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@RepCasten</a> wrote a smart and timely multi-post thread about what we must do and believe to have our democracy prevail, and I've put it into an easier to read article. <a href="https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@SeanCasten</a>'s insights are heartening and it's well worth reading: <a href="https://davaug.medium.com/virtue-and-the-law-b96d2d2848a3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://davaug.medium.com/virtue-and-the-law-b96d2d2848a3</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SeanCasten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SeanCasten</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtue</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#democracy</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®<a href="https://mastodon.social/@whknott" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@whknott</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@ErickaSimone" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ErickaSimone</a> <a href="https://podvibes.co/@evoterra" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@evoterra</a> The founding <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FirstPrinciples</a> are noble and rooted in <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtue</a>, which was the only thing sons of the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#American</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Enlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enlightenment</a> valued in the late 1700’s.Reputation is a function of promise and delivery.The delivery has fell short since inception.But the promise?Huge upside.

the roamer<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Plutarch</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ParallelLives</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pericles</a> 2/ These two men [Pericles and Fabius Maximus] were alike in their virtues, and more especially in their gentleness and rectitude, and by their ability to endure the follies of their peoples and of their colleagues in office, they proved of the greatest service to their countries.[Section 2]<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtue</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/leadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#leadership</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#resistance</a>

Kent Pitman<a href="https://me.dm/@stoicteacher" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@stoicteacher</a> > "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." -CiceroPersonally I don't like seing it as parent of others. It feels like it reduces the others to, or at least nudges them toward, cheap transactionalism.Even the head felon of the US is capable of virtue-like behavior borne of gratitude, yet those are not real virtues exactly because selfishness is everpresent, and because selfish gratitude has always to be tangled in to any pretended virtue spawned.Empathy, I would say, is the more rightful parent of other virtues because it acknowledges a hope of value that transcends self. And I don't see any useful meaning to "virtue" if it cannot achieve escape velocity from one's self.<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/stoicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stoicism</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtue</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®<a href="https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@knittingknots2</a> So much to unpack here: the sons of the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#American</a> Enlightenment valued <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtue</a>, in a callback to the ancient <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/pagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pagan</a> republics of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a>.Also, Crusader states are not - and have never been - sustainable.Eschatologists and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/neofeudal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#neofeudal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/reactionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reactionaries</a> have become a cancer on the Republic.This is why we can’t have nice things.<a href="https://mastodon.world/@paninid/113781420041738193" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.world/@paninid/113781420041738193</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®Plato viewed oligarchy as a flawed and unstable form of government, characterized by the prioritization of wealth over <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtue</a> and political skill. In The Republic, he described it as a society where wealth determines political power, leading to a sharp divide between the rich and poor. This division fosters class conflict, weakens societal unity, and erodes moral obligations. 2/3

Coach Pāṇini ®<a href="https://union.place/@scaramanga" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@scaramanga</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@GhostOnTheHalfShell</a> The <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#American</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FirstPrinciples</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtue</a> do not align with God-Kings, they have been tricked <a href="https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/08/13/skeptical-of-god-kings/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/08/13/skeptical-of-god-kings/</a>

Tucker TeagueOnce again, I have to say, I absolutely love Catherine Liu’s book, VIRTUE HOARDERS: THE CASE AGAINST THE PROFESSIONAL MANAGERIAL CLASS. I am rereading it again and it makes even more sense this time. I realize that I have been a member of the PMC (on a lower rung for sure) for years and have, at times, fallen for its wiles. I think it’s fair to say this is the class that lost the 2024 election, and predictably so. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PMC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PMC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#culture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#liberals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtue</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®culture is formed in the development of personal character<a href="https://www.historynet.com/ben-franklins-gift-keeps-giving/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.historynet.com/ben-franklins-gift-keeps-giving/</a><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#culture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/character" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#character</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtue</a>

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