On a related note, the latest Trump administration cabinent picks and antics unironically cured my impostor syndrome.

If these gaggle of fucking demented backstabbing morons are good enough to run this country...

And they can show that about half the country is actually so stupid and or intentionally blind and or evil to somehow not realize their cult leader just obviously is a huge rapist and pedoohile...

Then I am better than this country.

Better qualified, more empathetic, more competent.

Turns out it was just angry clowns gaslighting us the whole time.

Well uh fuck em, this is all so stupid that I now actually have the correct amount of self-confidence and self-respect, it is indeed this entire society that is a joke, not that I am somehow fundamentally inadequate.

Chatting with a buddy of mine this morning. He is looking at stuff he did in his life. He went to see the play, Annie, when he was a kid.

"They wouldn't do Annie today, it's too woke" I said. Then, it dawned on me. "I'm wrong. Annie would be totally fine.

Short review: 'An orphaned girl is bought by a billionaire real estate magnate and groomed at a luxury resort," would fit right in with the morals of a political party

Honestly, I think my moral OCD needed to hear this.

And make sure to turn off all the lights and appliances you're not using to save power for the AI. This future is trash.

While people in power are absolute evil most of the time, this is not an excuse to change your own morals for the worse.

Small acts of kindness, when taken in decent quantity, change the world no less than massive fraud and sex trafficking.

That said, one of the most moral things to do is to be on the lookout for powerful people doing nasty things and do everything in your capacity to prevent or at least retaliate. This makes abuse less common, and goes a long way to restore democracy and responsibility for everyone.

Apparently this is not a shower thought🤔 /s

Our leaders are so disconnected from the average person only them being forced to confront their own mortality can snap them out of it.

Just finding out? Haha, no, we've known about this ring for the better part of a decade now. The wealthy and powerful probably a lot longer than that.

Don't expect the world to reward your good behavior. You will find your own internal motivation, or maybe not. But judging others never ends well. Just focus on your own actions. Nobody says being a good human being is easy...

Are you really feeling guilty about not tipping because of the moral implications, or do you just feel socially shamed? Important distinction.

I am surprised by you being surprised, I knew for about 10 years.

Epstein also definetly did not kill himself but the media in my country is already reporting him as suicide now, and people forget.

Just finding out? Hasn't all of this been known for almost a decade now?

I would go with modern socialism/communism but, ever since Joe McCarthy, america tastes bile in their throat every time those words are bandied about. Pavlov and B.F. Skinner would be proud.

No, your notion of morality is accurate, there's no reason to race to the bottom because someone else sucks more.

Capitalism rewards the most heartless greedy pieces of shit. Simple as. It is, in fact, not the best type of economy for any kind of moral society.

Don't forget, while the Qanon BS is flourishing, a former Speaker of the House (3rd in line to the presidecy) gets imprisoned for molesting at least four teenage boys.

I've learned paedophiles seem to be naturally skilled with grabbing power throughout history and the present is no differnt. I'm more aware of that fact now.

I've also learmed a large percentage of humans actually are fine with their leaders raping children. One might think they're fine with it in general.

Morality and laws are for the plebs. If you’re rich or powerful enough, you get to do whatever you want, so long as you don’t harm another rich or powerful person.

we known it since 2019, when he epsteined himself. and it went back decades, the MSM did thier best to not report it for the last 4 years. because too many politicians, both US and the world leaders, plus many donors. just like with the panama papers.

Maxwell's father worked for various intelligence agencies. This appears to be a blackmail operation by the Mossad and/or the CIA. The former Israeli Prime Minister visited Epstein's home several times.

It's a tough go for the people who believe in pacifism or nonviolent change.

The thing is:

The little things do matter. They shape who you are. They shape the lives of the people around you. They're important.

But this is like a death-penalty-on-the-table-murder-trial being interrupted by a nuclear bomb. And that shit always happens.

Yes this other shit happens more, yes it's a priority, and yes none of your everyday decency will influence it in the slightest, but it still matters.

You just also have to fix that other shit.

It's not'nothing matters' its 'fuck, more work'.

Don't worry, as the economy becomes more stressed and people become more desperate, morality will fly out the window and become completely secondary to survival. Even those who succumb to that desperation will be ahead of the game on the morality spectrum though. There is a huge difference between stealing to feed your family and steeling purely out of greed.

Also, tipping culture is a cancer that needs to die. So don't feel guilty about not tipping.

You're just finding out maybe.