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New peer-reviewed publication by my favorite #philosophistorian Richard Carrier:

#God is therefore unnecessary to ground #moral facts, and moral facts derive fundamentally from the conjunction of #rationality and the situational facts of any potentially moral decision, and therefore are empirically discoverable as such.“

📝 mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/8/1061
✍️ Blog-post: richardcarrier.info/archives/3

#Project2025 Is Dead. Long Live Project 2025.

#Trump, #Vance and the #hateful horizons of “#TradFuturism.”

by Sarah Riccardi-Swartz July 31, 2024
Published in #InTheseTimes

Excerpt: "When news came several weeks ago that Trump had chosen Ohio Sen. #JDVance as his running mate for the 2024 presidential election, my X (formerly Twitter) feed was abuzz with commentary about the selection. Out of the various comments, criticism and praise heaped upon the Hillbilly Elegy author and onetime ​'#NeverTrumper' was the assessment of #DarrellScott, pastor of a Cleveland Heights, Ohio, church ministry and one of Trump’s former spiritual advisors.

" 'JD Vance is not only the pick for today, but also for the future,' Scott proclaimed. ​'He will be the presumptive nominee for President in 2028, and will keep the #MAGA movement going, retaining Trump as an advisor/​consigleri [sic]. Rubio, Haley, Burgum, Carson, etc wouldn’t.'

"Scott’s emphasis on MAGA’s future vitality caught my eye as a prime example of a phenomenon I call trad futurism, with the Trump campaign’s selection of Vance serving as part of a world-building project aimed at creating a future for the United States that is not founded on the principles of democracy and freedom but rather on #Identitarian politics and the policing of people and bodies that don’t conform to so-called #TraditionalValues.
Trad futurism is a moral project that unites ideologically disparate #RightWing groups to craft a world in opposition to secular progressive democracy.

"What is trad futurism? Trad is shorthand for #traditionalist / #​traditionalism. Recently, there has been broad discussion of far-right groups like ​'trad wives' on TikTok or ​'#RadTrad' young Catholics. Trad futurism is part of that conversation, but it’s not just about a return to the simple life or a Latin Mass. Rather it’s a moral project that unites ideologically disparate right-wing groups to craft a world in opposition to secular progressive #democracy.

"Right-wing writer #RodDreher’s 2017 book #TheBenedictOption, which urged Christians to withdraw from a corrupted world into cloistered purist communities of the faithful, is one type of trad future: small and local. But some trad futurist projects are far more expansive, aimed at creating a ​'#moral' future for America, in which laws and social policies reflect the ​'traditional values' of conservative Christianity. Throughout the United States, various groups of traditionalists are doing their part to build that world.

"#ChristianNationalists position their values as American values. Institutions, including the massive #Heritage Foundation and countless otherconservative lobbying groups, are courting right-wing leaders and crafting manifestos for their ideal vision of the country’s future."

Read more:
inthesetimes.com/article/proje

In These TimesProject 2025 Is Dead. Long Live Project 2025.Trump, Vance and the hateful horizons of “trad futurism.”
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And #Europe needs to #unite under #values and in #solidarity, not under #racism, #christofacism & #cyberfacism.

youtube.com/watch?v=Msfrit12u0

This fight isn't about #Ukraine or even #Finland, but about whether we allow #billionaires and/or #autocrats to run the world into the ground for their #profit or whether we as #society if not #species realize we only have this planet and that we've to "adult up" and get our shit together!

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@dejan

Wobei anzumerken ist, es handelt sich nicht um ein ausschließlich die #cdu betreffendens Thema.

SPD, Grüne, Linke, usw. bedachten oder bedenken, egal ob in den Kommunen, Bundesländern oder im Bund, ihre jeweiligen Freundeskreise mit einflussreichen und/oder lukrativen Stellen, oder auch Aufträgen.

Bei #spahn wird es lediglich aktuell besonders auffällig.

Es wäre also, nach vorne gedacht, zu überlegen: wie kann künftig verhindert werden, dass es zu solchen, zumindest ethisch zu beanstandenden, Vorfällen kommt?

Macht korrumpiert nicht zwangsläufig, es gibt -vermutlich die Mehrheit- viele, die verantwortungsvoll mit der ihnen geliehenen Macht umgehen. An Einsicht und Moral zu appellieren erschiene etwas naiv.

#nepotismus#csu#spd

Das #Fleischparadoxon, die Akrasia des Omnivoren und die #Tierethik - PMC
Zusammenfassung
Psychologen verwenden den Begriff „#Fleischparadoxon“, um zu erklären, warum Menschen zwar ihr Interesse am #Tierwohl betonen, aber dennoch #Fleisch essen, dessen Produktion nichtmenschlichen Lebewesen Leid zugefügt hat.
Der Artikel verwendet den Begriff „Omnivoren-Akrasia“, um einen Zustand zu beschreiben, in dem man an den Wert des #Tierwohls glaubt und dennoch Produkte konsumiert, die #Tierleid verursacht haben. Die These des Artikels lautet, dass das Verständnis des Fleischparadoxons durch philosophische Ansätze zur Akrasia, die Begriffe wie moralische Vernunft und Tugend betonen, erheblich erweitert werden kann.
Eine weitere These ist, dass sowohl das Fleischparadoxon als auch die #Omnivoren-Akrasia durch die Verbesserung der eigenen moralischen Fähigkeiten reduziert werden können.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/
#Ethik #Ernährung #Philosophie #Moral #Vernunft #Tierleid #Meatparadox #Cheeseparadox

PubMed Central (PMC)The Meat Paradox, Omnivore’s Akrasia, and Animal EthicsPsychologists have used the term “meat paradox” to explain why people may emphasize their concern for animal welfare and yet eat meat, the production of which has caused suffering to nonhuman creatures. This paper explores the meat paradox through ...

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a. So, let's name & shame this person: "Johnathan Christopher 'Chris' Booth, 37, lives in the unincorporated community of Coral, a part of Maple Valley Township in Michigan’s Montcalm county & is married to a senior local #Republican official." And #YouTube, what are you doing broadcasting this #fascist filth? Don't you have a #moral #responsibility NOT to poison the minds of young people with it?

The Guardian · Unmasked: the man behind one of the fastest growing far-right YouTube channelsBy Jason Wilson

washingtonpost.com/sports/2025. Does having #CTE absolve a person of #criminal & #moral #responsibility? An interesting question. We know that #brain #injury produces changes to the #personality - there is the famous case of Phineas Gage (see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_), & there are many others, but our #legal system is founded on the notion of free will. Proof of determinism would undermine it completely.

The Washington Post · NYC shooter’s brain will be tested for CTE, officials sayBy Mark Maske

„In den einzelnen Episoden einer jeden Staffel streift das Anthologie-Narrativ durch unsere #gesellschaft die sich fortwährend mit dem technologischen Fortschritt verändert. Dabei legt Black Mirror ein besonderes Hauptaugenmerk auf den Umgang mit diesen Entwicklungen und wie sich diese auf den Alltag der Menschen auswirkt - teilweise mit verheerenden Folgen. Am Ende ist es jedoch nicht zwangsläufig die Technologie, die den Weltuntergang beschwört, sondern menschliches #Versagen im Zusammenspiel mit dieser.“
#blackmirror #techbros #usa #palantir #technology #dystopien #musk #zuckerberg #thiel #terrorism #netflix #moral

moviepilot.de/serie/black-mirr

MoviepilotBlack Mirror | Serie 2011 - 2025 | MoviepilotCharlie Brookers Anthologieserie Black Mirror ist eine Sammlung dystopischer Visionen unserer nahen Zukunft. Jede der einzelnen Episoden erzählt dabei eine e...
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@jeremy_pm @klegdixal @DarrenDonovan @QasimRashid

you don't understand me at all

i support #palestine. i support #israel. i support the #TwoStateSolution

but embedded in both are the murderers

parasites

fed by the other's malice, and feeding the other's malice

#likud kills, so #hamas kills. hamas kills, so likud kills, etc, ad nauseum

since before i was born

and long after i'm dead

unless enough of us take a #moral stand against *all* #massMurder

side with #morality

not tribe

please

Hannes Schilling – “Good News (2024)

Ein Mann lügt. Nicht aus Bosheit, sondern aus Angst, aus Eitelkeit, aus Not. Und ein anderer Mann glaubt ihm – weil er muss. Das erste Langfilmprojekt von Hannes Schilling ist kein Film über den globalen Süden. Es ist ein Film über das Zentrum. Über den Kern westlicher Erzählungen, über Medien, über “unsere” Gewalt der Repräsentation. (ARD, Neu)

NexxtPress · Hannes Schilling - "Good News" (2024)
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#ard#berlin#debut