Yeah, that’s because moral relativism is cool when you live in a free and decent society.

The irony is that you can afford to debate morality when society is moral and you’re not facing an onslaught of inhumanity in the form of fascism and unchecked greed that’s threatening any hope for a future.

But when shit hits the fan, morality becomes pretty fucking clear. And that’s what’s happening right now. Philosophical debates about morality are out the window when you’re facing an existential threat.

In February, Trump fired the chair of the Kennedy Center board, David Rubinstein, and appointed himself to the position. He also dismissed numerous trustees and brought in new board members, including Usha Vance.

“I have decided to immediately terminate multiple individuals from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture,” the president wrote on Truth Social.

In a separate post, Trump shared an AI-generated image of himself dressed as a conductor alongside a caption that read, “welcome to the New Kennedy Center.”

He also expressed discontent with the “direction” the Kennedy Center was taking with its shows.

“Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP. The Kennedy Center is an American Jewel, and must reflect the brightest STARS on its stage from all across our Nation. For the Kennedy Center, THE BEST IS YET TO COME!” he wrote.

In response to the president’s takeover of the iconic venue, which typically takes a neutral political stance, the producers of the hit stage musical Hamilton cancelled a run set for 2026. Actor and musician Issa Rae, among other artists, took the same route.

The Washington Opera and the National Symphony Orchestra both call the Kennedy Center home. The centre puts on more than 2,000 performances annually.

The National Post is US-owned and conservative-leaning.

If only lemmy posts showed up on search engines, reddit would be finished.

10 Democrats joined the Republicans to censure him:

• California Representative Ami Bera,
• Hawaii Representative Ed Case,
• California Representative Jim Costa,
• New York Representative Laura Gillen,
• Connecticut Representative Jim Himes,
• Pennsylvania Representative Chrissy Houlahan,
• Ohio Representative Marcy Kaptur,
• Florida Representative Jared Moskowitz,
• Washington Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, and
• New York Representative Tom Suozzi.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/al-green-censure-house-trump-speech-democrats

Canada should take them in.

Putin wins.

Jesus fuck… These fucking people are so fucking weak. It’s pathetic.

Grow some fucking balls. This was the moment to unite Europe and the free world with Ukraine, but these guys are so feckless.

How is a one-month truce gonna prove anything? You can’t trust anything Putin says or Trump. Get that into your fucking skulls.

It’s fucking incredible how people learn nothing from history.

These two idiots, Trump and Putin, only respond to strength, not this weak wishy-washy “let’s give it a month just to see” shit.

Europe and Canada should be having a field day recruiting disgruntled employees.

The brain-drain is going to be serious in the US in the coming years if there is no civil war or world war.

People are being bombarded with low quality information and disinformation.

They get their news from people like Joe Rogan, tik tok, Facebook, twitter, and their other stupid friends.

While the “good” people are trying to share quality information (truth), which takes time and effort, the “bad” people just straight up lie. So they can flood all these channels with their lies, and people just eat it up.

What’s astonishing is that the governments are just letting all this happen. Just letting these tech companies peddle all these lies without any pushback.

Only Brazil seems to be actually doing something about Twitter and Musk, for example. Why haven’t other countries cracked down on Musk? It’s baffling…

Putin?

Yes, you can actually “brainwash” yourself this way. Every time you remember something, you’re basically rewriting the memory into your brain. So every time you remember something, it becomes less reliable as it has more chances of being corrupted by new information.

So if you remember a childhood memory, then for some reason you add a detail that wasn’t there before, that’s the new memory.

Example: you remember going to the zoo as a kid, and you remember seeing a monkey. Then your mom shows you a photo album of your trip to the zoo, and in it, there’s a picture of you watching a lion.

Next time you remember that trip to the zoo, you’ll probably remember seeing a lion too, even though originally you didn’t at all.

Memory is incredibly unreliable.

That’s kind of terrifying if it translates to humans the same way.

Are future generations just gonna be walking around with aneurysms, limping about with reduced brain function and start dropping dead from strokes left and right at a certain age?

ABC paid $15 million, as far as I know CBS hasn’t paid anything yet.

Is Trump gonna take in all those people? Maybe they can live at Mar-a-Lago. Or start a Palestinian community near his house.

Take in the 2 million Gazans and give them a nice place to live.

Let’s see how Florida and his base of xenophobes like that.

And what do you do with the ones that don’t want to move? Put them in a train by force and ship them somewhere? Sounds familiar?

You can try this.

https://fodmapchecker.com/

It’s not perfect, but whatever is missing, you can just search it up.

Have you tried an image search lately? It’s fucking terrible. It’s all AI generated crap. They need a filter to filter out any AI generated image.

This doesn’t eliminate the paradox. Why does the contract exist in the first place?

It’s a moral standard. If moral people didn’t decide that tolerance was a good thing for society, the contract wouldn’t exist.

So yes, thinking about it as a contract sidesteps the paradox, but the paradox still exists.

So Karl Popper was still right and society shouldn’t tolerate the intolerant.

Yeah, not really. Only the Capitol Police are saying that.

I bet most cops are happy.

I hope they do and replace Facebook. But in their current iteration, they won’t. That’s all I’m saying.