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The social permissioning effects of Trump on frontline psychopaths in federal agencies is far worse than anything he’s personally complicit in. He’s not imaginative enough to be involved in anything worse than tawdry low-hanging fruit $ grifts. But people he enables... wow.
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There’s a curious kind of cluelessness where people decide acting out of a sense of personal integrity without regard to actual integrity of people around you is principled behavior. It’s the flip side of “look what you made me do”
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“I don’t personally steal so if I leave the safe unlocked knowing there are thieves in the building, I’m still acting with integrity” = “I’m a thief but not a murderer, so if I create means and opportunity for murderous people through inaction, I’m still at most a thief”
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Proximal trigger news. I hope this turns out to be fake news rather than Exhibit 234453 in support of this thread.
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Whistleblower: There Were Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility | Law & Crime lawandcrime.com/high-profile/l
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Exhibit 234454. The other end of the chain looks like trump loyalists getting promoted in charge of federal California lands (like 50%?) sabotaging any attempt at wildfire mitigation.
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Trump on climate change: "It'll start getting cooler. You just watch ... I don't think science knows, actually."
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Exhibit “who’s counting anymore?” (esp look at the cute 5 year old kid trotting out the “flu kills more people” talking point). In the age of information war, this is like African warlords handing AK-47s to child soldiers. That kid’s life is over, now that he’s been weaponized.
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This has to be an SNL skit. It just has to be.
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it's hard to simultaneously hold that personal integrity must involve some element of the actions of others, and also hold at the same time that giant bureaucracies & their cultures, policies aren't in the control of the rank-and-file