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MHowell

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I'm tired, Randy, you be the boss for awhile.

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georgetakei, to random
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Judge Tanya Chutkan, who had stayed her gag order pending appeal, reinstated it after Trump came after Mark Meadows. She ruled that this “almost certainly” would have been a violation had it been in effect. Now, we know that Donald Trump can’t help himself. He’s sure to violate it again. So the parties will be back before the judge not long from now arguing what the appropriate sanction should be. A big fine? He won’t care. Send him to jail? That will make him a martyr and turn the trial into a circus. It will certainly be interesting to see what she does next time he crosses her.

MHowell,
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He CAN and HAS controlled himself. He is choosing not to, until the consequences exceed the perceived benefits. Don't feed into the myth that he isn't able to control himself. This is deliberate.

appassionato, to bookstodon
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Millions Like Us
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We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. But in conditions of "Total War" millions of women -- in the Services and on the Home Front - demonstrated that they were cleverer, more broad-minded and altogether more complex than anyone had ever guessed.

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MHowell,
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My grandma, a widow with 2 young girls, was made Director of Admissions at a large university hospital during the war, basically because they didn't have a man available. She retired from that job in 1986.

Barros_heritage, to psychology
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THE ILLUSION OF MORAL DECLINE by Adam M. Mastroianni and Daniel T. Gilbert (Nature, 2023).

"In a series of studies using both archival and original data (n = 12,492,983), we show that people in at least 60 nations around the world believe that morality is declining, that they have believed this for at least 70 years and that they attribute this decline both to the decreasing morality of individuals as they age and to the decreasing morality of successive generations. Next, we show that people’s reports of the morality of their contemporaries have not declined over time, suggesting that the perception of moral decline is an illusion. Finally, we show how a simple mechanism based on two well-established psychological phenomena (biased exposure to information and biased memory for information) can produce an illusion of moral decline."

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06137-x

MHowell,
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Check, but I'll raise you 'Biden and Trump running neck-and-neck in the polls.'

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@Barros_heritage @academicchatter @histodons @psychology
Read the indictment. Yes, I do.

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@Barros_heritage @academicchatter @histodons @psychology
That doesn't make them moral.

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@Barros_heritage @academicchatter @histodons @psychology
What do you suggest? In my mind, morality defines a fair and safe system that values and protects individuals.

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@Barros_heritage @academicchatter @histodons @psychology
I would have conceded this to you in 2018, but that was many crimes under the bridge, and children separated from their parents. Morality.

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@ConnorMoran @Barros_heritage @academicchatter @histodons @psychology
I won't defend Ronald Reagan's policies, but he (ouch, this hurts) had more morals than Trump, on a sliding scale. Just because history is full of miscreants/psychos doesn't mean we can't ask for/DEMAND better.

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