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@wraithe@mastodon.social
2026-02-05 19:17:30

Any Christian who voted for Trump ever tries to talk to me about morality again should understand that I would respect someone farting in Morse code more highly than what I think of their moral opinion.

@theodric@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-03 21:04:03

I need everybody to understand that international law isn't real, doesn't exist, and isn't a thing you can read or cite, BECAUSE (most importantly!) it does not effectively constrain sovereign actors. You can piss and moan on Mastodon all you want, but unless YOU PERSONALLY have a military ready to enforce YOUR definition of morality, countries will continue to just do whatever they want as they have for millennia, and you are (as always) just along for the ride, very much in the…

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2026-03-02 17:12:33
Content warning: Uspol, Iran, necropolitics

Seeing Iran appoint new leaders and continue to fight is seeing the more literal kind of necropolitics in action, as a hierarchical system continues to function while replacing the expendable human parts that it lost. The system is of course changed and influenced (and ultimately was built) by humans, but it has become something undying, or at least almost as hard to kill as an idea, and it maintains a terrible inertia in it's destructive tendencies (e.g., "Morality Police" continue to patrol the streets).
Lest anyone think this somehow expresses approval of US actions, the same logic applies here too: what once had a (thin) verneer of democracy, a system which loudly proclaimed to be controlled by "the people" (but which never was nor was ever intended to be) has lost its paint job, exposing the inhuman machinations beneath. Trump is a symptom, not cause, of an institution built on blood and spoils, whose alignment with the Epstein class (and moreover, their institutions) is ever more apparent with each disregarded law and principle.
Stepping back for a moment, this systems/necropolitics perspective is just a perspective, with its own distortions and blind spots. To paraphrase LeGuin, any institution built by humans can also be changed or destroyed by them. But I think it's very useful to put on the systems goggles in this moment, especially when some are fond of preaching about the dangers of "overwhelmingly powerful systems unaccountable to humans which pursue destructive ends" without actually examining the plethora of existing systems that do just that.
P.S. yes, United Healthcare is another good example of this.
P.P.S. yes I bending the meaning of necropolitics here, but the two are related: these systems would not be so free to profit from human death and suffering if they were more vulnerable to the deaths of their constituent parts. Necropolitics of the standard variety is of course present as companies like Raytheon and Lockeed Martin profit from the carnage. The F-15 caught by friendly fire? Just as profitable for Beoing to replace as one downed by the enemy.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-25 00:45:50

We Should Talk About The Morality of Political Violence (Ken White/The Popehat Report)
popehat.com/p/we-should-talk-a
memeorandum.com/260124/p74#a26

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-02-12 16:45:02

How MAGA's anti-empathy campaign upends Christian morality
religionnews.com/2026/02/12/ho

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2026-01-08 23:38:40

Rest in Peace
US Constitution
Effective March 4, 1789
Terminated January 8, 2026
On January 8, 2026 trump declared himself dictator (but avoided using that word):
'In a new interview with the New York Times, Trump said the only constraint to his power as president of the US is “my own morality, my own mind”.'
<…

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-01-26 19:37:33

"But it’s become impossible to watch the courage of whistle-blowing everyday citizens putting their lives on the line to fight for the neighbors they don’t even know, or to see the utter depravity of top government officials slandering innocent murder victims while their bodies are still warm, and not conclude: Yes, there is good and evil in this world."

@ebinger@bildung.social
2026-01-28 05:54:11

Ich würde es mir anschauen, das Rhinozeros im Raum von Itamar Gov in #Magdeburg
Ist leider nur ein bisschen weit weg.
itamargov.com/projects/the-rhi

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-01-26 18:42:07

“My father warned us, ‘When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind,’” Bernice King, the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., wrote of Pretti’s murder. “What we are witnessing now (masked raids, people taken without due process, vigilante, Gestapo, and slave patrol-like tactics, normalized under the color of law) is a moral crisis.”
#Trump

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-08 19:45:58

Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by 'My Own Morality' (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/poli
memeorandum.com/260108/p100#a2