Search results for tag #morality
"Unlike FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, Pope Leo warned that 'the media must guard against the risk of becoing propaganda so as not to become a mouthpiece for those in power.'”
#Trump #democracy #authoritarianism #fascism #morality #PopeLeo
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"In a rebuke to Trump’s flippant attitude toward war and anti-media tantrums, the pontiff implored news outlets 'to show the sufferings that war always brings to the people; to show the face of war and to relate it through the eyes of the victims, so as not to transform it into a video game.'"
#Trump #democracy #authoritarianism #fascism #morality #PopeLeo
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"Trump may regret shredding America’s moral stature, a historically indispensable part of our influence around the world. He has eradicated the difference between the U.S. and other rogue regimes that invade neighbors and kill innocent people indiscriminately.
Pope Leo XIV has been more vocal with each passing day."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #democracy #authoritarianism #fascism #morality #PopeLeo
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If your core values can be negotiated or otherwise compromised - you never had any genuine #CoreValues at all.
#wankerbutternoodles #NoMorals #NoEthics #TrashyPeople #PersonalCharacter #Morality #CoreValues
"And as the bodies pile up, the White House is propagandizing about carnage as if it were nothing but a violent, nihilistic video game. The casual talk of mass-death and the meme-ification of a regional bloodbath underscore the advanced depravity that drives Trump administration policies, at home and abroad."
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity #morality
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"So it’s no wonder that the man at the top is talking like a serial killer when it comes to how he speaks to the press and the voters about his dumb 'little' war."
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity #morality
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Nick Anderson's cartoon commentary on what Trump has accomplished with his illegal war of choice on Iran.
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity #morality
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/3/16/2373387/-Cartoon-World-on-fire
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A cartoon by Nick Anderson showing the world on fire due to Trump's illegal war of choice against Iran
"The prosecution of Trump’s war has been a massive, blood-caked scandal and crime. Beyond the moral and practical abomination of the operation, the president and ruling party dove backwards into this without even the appearance of a clear mission or plan, and tried to sell the American people a pack of lies to justify the war."
~ Asawin Suebsaeng
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity #morality
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"Today, all of us are obliged to endure a kind of moral injury when we see our government’s response to the news that the United States accidentally bombed a girls’ school in Minab, killing 170 people, mostly children."
~ Mona Charen
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity #morality
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"Pope Leo suggested on Friday that Christian political leaders who start wars should go to confession & assess whether they are following the teachings of Jesus, without naming any specific leaders or conflicts.
'Do those Christians who bear grave responsibility in armed conflicts have the humility & courage to make a serious examination of conscience and to go to confession?' the pope asked in a speech to priests."
~ Joshua McElwee
There is no question that it is indefensible to use generative AI systems as they are currently constituted, especially the commercial ones, once one becomes aware of how they are made and operated and the destructive consequences they have already had and will surely continue to have. Among the many reasons using these tools is indefensible is that they represent an authoritarian invitation. You're invited to trade your morals and ethics for a bit of convenience, a reduction in friction, a learning experience, a rhetorical flourish, or maybe (a kind of) status. You thereby align yourself more and more with people who say things like "water is fake" or "fuck earth" as they make the computer systems enabling the horrors we're watching unfold on social media. You start to tell yourself stories, complexifying stories that explain why it's OK you did this thing that you know is not OK. You move in the direction of people who are already telling themselves stories like this. Maybe their stories have superior analgesic qualities to yours.
Nobody needs to go down this path.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #ethics #morality #authoritarianism
Religious people cannot be moral. All their decisions are based on #dogma, so even if they do good, they only do so because they have to - often under threat of eternal damnation.
Furthermore, dogma is unchangeable, so it is impossible for them to change their behavior when it turns out their “morals” (dogma) results in amoral or immoral outcomes.
@servelan Corporate rights are antitrust, as they negate the rights of diverse interests to have elected representatives and delegates. Corporate sovereignty is ideological and monopolistic; games party divisions by grounding the outcome of elections on the finance of those who control the most capital, so is unsustainable. Its idea of competition depends on exploitation; wage and or indentured slavery to steal others resources so creates authoritarian cults. Interests Sovereignty, is not as it is sustainable. It requires mediation and cooperation to be competitive. How else can an ethically sustainable morality be realised? #PhilosophyofRights #politics #philosophy #sustainability #ethics #morality
"Last night's game says everything about the right's moral rot. ...
When you slap 'Faith, Family, Freedom' on the marquee and then hand the mic to Kid Rock, you’re not defending values. You’re confessing that you don’t have any."
~ Julie Roginsky
#BadBunny #KidRock #Trump #MAGA #pedophiles #morality
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https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/magas-super-bowl-morality-faith-on
"This is the same Kid Rock whose lyrics crow about liking girls 'underage'—a line so explicit it sounds implausible because people understandably assume no movement obsessed with accusing others of grooming could possibly be this reckless. And yet there he was: headlining a values-themed spectacle, draped in flags, baptized by applause."
"I’ve got a question for all of you, What side do you want to be on?
We’re no longer having a political debate. We’re having a moral debate."
~ Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Jan. 25, quoted by James Fallows.
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #morality
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https://fallows.substack.com/p/were-no-longer-having-a-political
"Fallows says he's writing his post 'to document this crucial moment in history and what some people have said and done over these past three chaotic days. I’ll focus on individuals in Minnesota who have exemplified the courage, discipline, and morality that, through this crisis, have distinguished their state as a whole.'"
"This moment is not about party. Walz was emphatic on that point. What is happening in Minnesota, and across the country, is a moral question. It is about empathy, basic decency, and constitutional rights. Minnesota’s record undermines the narrative the administration wants to sell."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #morality
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/i-just-spoke-with-gov-walz-about
"The state ranks near the top in quality of life, health care, education, and happiness. It has low childhood poverty, high insurance coverage, and long life expectancy. Walz believes the administration resents the fact that progressive policies work, that a system built on the idea that everyone matters produces real results."
"The people of Minneapolis have shown such incredible bravery the leadership in Congress needs to prove that they are worthy of that and that they're willing to stand up as well because the fight in Congress is nothing compared to what the average person in Minneapolis is just doing for their neighbors."
~ Edwin Eisendrath
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #morality
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/bye-bye-bovino-edwin-eisendrath-and
"I spent a chunk of my life from 2005 till 2024 hoping that the shit that is happening right now in Minneapolis/St Paul wouldn’t happen. But it has. Along with many fellow compatriots, we crossed the country, wrote books and articles, did tv and podcasts to warn people that the marriage of Republicans, Evangelicals, and Right-wing Catholics would take this country over, and fundamentally change it."
~ Anthea Butler
#Trump #religion #morality #evil
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https://profantheabutler.substack.com/p/1776-2026-what-a-semiquincetennial
"Out of the gate, when someone goes to work for the Trump Regime and cites religious teachings as their polestar, my bullshit-meter goes into overdrive. Because in words and in actions, the Trump Regime is immoral and cruel so how can Trumpers reconcile the hypocrisy?"
~ Katie Phang
#Trump #religion #morality #evil
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https://katiephang.substack.com/p/do-not-stand-idly-by-while-your-neighbors
"A new era of religious leadership in the U.S Catholic Church has dawned — driven by the immoral and destructive extremes of the Trump administration. ... No longer can Catholics within the administration's apparatus or supporters of it twist reality to accommodate policies clearly at odds with Catholic social teaching and the heart of the Christian Scriptures."
~ National Catholic Reporter
#Trump #Catholic #PopeLeo #morality #power
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https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/editorial/editorial-church-speaks-out-new-era-has-dawned
"We have reached, in our national life, that point of no escaping.
There is no hiding from the inhumanity in depriving the neediest abroad of life-saving medicine and food. There is no longer turning away from the brutal treatment of not only immigrants but also U.S. citizens at the hands of a paramilitary force accountable to no one."
#Trump #Catholic #PopeLeo #morality #power #immigrants #ICE #food #healthcare #war
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"There is no rationale that any longer justifies a self-indulgent president and his minions lusting after an irrational and destructive hemispheric hegemony.
We have asked previously what it means to be a Catholic in this country at this moment. The American hierarchy has begun to answer the question and it cannot be surprising that the answer is more challenging than comforting."
#Trump #Catholic #PopeLeo #morality #power #immigrants #ICE #food #healthcare #war
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Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "JD Vance's comments💔justifying the death of #ReneeGood are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith.🚨His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
Since there doesn't appear to be anyone with a moral compass inside Trump's⭕, it's important to amplify influential orgs that've "some" history of⚡defending #HumanRights, other #rights, & #morality.
#Murder #DHS #PopeLeo #USPol
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For the last year, European friends-turned-frenemies of the #UnitedStates have delicately navigated one shock after another, hoping for the best as #Trump threatened to lay waste to the #GlobalOrder.
When Trump scolded #NATO #allies, lambasted #Ukraine’s president, laid on #tariffs & framed ratified #treaties as conditional deals, the go-to play by #Europe was to placate—with #military #spending pledges, #trade concessions, disciplined summits, in language scrubbed of #morality or judgment.
Stop thinking that you can appeal to the morality and conscience of Republicans with the hope that they’ll suddenly break from the unpatriotic and destructive path they’re on with Donald Trump.
The only way to get your country back is to end their reign of terror by voting at the ballot box.
#trump #morality #conscience #MAGA #republicans #democrats #politics #news #elections #America
#Trump #Morality #History #Leadership
Thom Hartmann 12/26/25
Trump’s Christmas message "Scum" wasn’t just offensive. It was a warning.
The future lay before us now, and if we care about the country our children will inherit, we can’t let this moral vandalism to go unanswered.
Read the full article (with links): https://buttondown.com/impureleftist/archive/who-is-welcome-in-our-movements
#collaboration #activism #coalitions #morality #workingtogether #politics
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We stop trying to convince and cajole, and start making small invitations instead.
It makes sense that we hold deep contempt, and even hatred, for leaders who have fundamentally failed us, over and over. And that still doesn't mean those people are our enemies.
It doesn't mean there's no chance we can work together.
The end doesn't always justify the means, and our moral compasses are often very sensitive to this truth. We don't want to compromise ourselves. And we don't want to lose.
What's the solution?
Here's a starting point: The next time you find yourself dismissing a possible collaborator, try asking "What would it take for us to work together?"
And just make a little mental note of your answer—and theirs, if you ask them directly.
Maybe you'll find yourself dialing back the judgment, and dialing up the curiosity.
"I've spoken with now most of the people who were in that video reminding service members about where their loyalties properly lie. And they didn't do it with an eye towards these attacks in the Caribbean. Right. That was just fortuitous timing. Their biggest fear is what's going to happen in the U.S."
~ Ken Harbaugh
#Trump #Hegseth #murder #Venezuela #morality #ethics
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https://ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/saying-no-to-herods-madness
"The Trump administration's drug boat campaign has assassinated about one person each day since early September. These are murders, and our basic humanity demands that we not get complacent about them.
Moral countries don’t summarily execute people without due process, and moral people don’t support countries that do."
~ Radley Balko
"As the collection of authoritarian grifters and neoconservative leftovers take to television and social media each day to sell their various cons and schemes to the public, Trump appears more and more to be a passive actor, watching as the people around him run his administration as they please."
~ Justin Glawe
#Trump #narcissism #flattery #grift #EconomicElites #PaytoPlay #ethics #morality
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-boat-strikes-execute-drug-dealers
In a statement entitled, "Crooked as We Wanna Be, Say The Corrupt GOP Six," Josh Marshall writes:
"In any case, it’s what we know: a corrupt Court at war with the Constitution. They do what they need to do to get the result they want."
#Trump #morality #ethics #corruption #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/crooked-as-we-wanna-be-say-the-corrupt-gop-six
"For the more humble among us, it’s hard to grasp why a 79-year-old billionaire really needs to accrue more wealth. But we should never forget that Trump ran out of ideas decades ago—and every corrupt and wrongheaded thing he does now is based on the tired presumptions and dirty habits of his younger self, present facts be damned."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #morality #ethics #corruption #EconomicElites #SuperRich
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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/president-for-the-rich-and-powerful
"Finally, he gets to put tariffs on everybody! Finally, he can freely call the Somali people (and by association every person of color) 'garbage.' Finally, he can call female reporters 'piggie' or call them 'stupid' to their face and not care what they or anyone thinks."
#Trump #morality #ethics #corruption #EconomicElites #SuperRich #racism #xenophobia #WhiteSupremacy #misogyny
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"Trump now gets to let his freak flag fly—that is, the John Roberts-liberated version where the laws do not apply and racist and sexist outbursts are excused by the crucifix-wearing press secretary/propagandist Karoline Leavitt who tells doubters in the press that she serves 'the most transparent president in history' and they are lucky for the 'unprecedented access' he provides."
#Trump #morality #ethics #corruption #EconomicElites #SuperRich #racism #xenophobia #WhiteSupremacy #misogyny
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"In short order, Trump has managed to corrupt the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice, and the senior leadership of the US military (among other government agencies). He did so by compromising, neutralizing, or replacing small groups of leaders in each of those organs of democracy."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #morality #ethics #corruption #SupremeCourt #military #DOJ #Hegseth #FrankBradley #JohnRoberts #WarCrimes
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/thursday-served-as-a-bracing-reminder
"But for the cowardice and complicity of men and women like Chief Justice John Roberts, Special Operations Commander Admiral Frank Bradley, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, Trump’s lawless reign could be slowed or stopped."
#Trump #morality #ethics #corruption #SupremeCourt #military #DOJ #Hegseth #FrankBradley #JohnRoberts #PamBondi #WarCrimes
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If most #LLMs were trained on the data obtained by the wholesale theft of personal intellectual property over recent years, & if LLMs directly relate to what the general public [including me, who makes no claims at all to deep subject knowledge here] think of as being "AI", then how do peeps in the general public who choose to use, & express a liking for, "AI", reconcile their behaviour with the enormously immoral act on which it is predicated? Does it mean therefore that if such peeps happen to have installed, eg, Do such peeps cheerfully buy cheap clothes made in SE Asia sweatshops that underpay their workers & make them endure unsafe workplaces & conditions? Where are the moral limits for such peeps? Are ostriches the official totem for these peeps?
What if the machine were 10x more complex? 100x more complex? What if part of the machine could misbehave in such a way that the person at the end isn't harmed with certainty, but only with some probability? What if the machine has 10 switches, all of which have to be flipped by 10 different individuals before the machine starts and harms the person; do you hold any of the individuals responsible for the harm?
#morality #ethics #TrolleyProblem
(*) Trolley problems are silly because they are decontexualized, and so are the proposed Rube Goldberg ones. I am satirizing them all, in part, though I do think if you're going to play around with thought experiments RG is a bit closer to modern lived reality than a runaway trolley.