The New Ethics

So, this is how things work now?

"Yeah I robbed the bank and got caught, but since I apologized I'm keeping the money."

"Of course I used anabolic steroids, HGH and blood packing, but since the drug tests showed that and I'm ever so sorry I'll keep my Olympic medals."

"Sure I plagiarized my doctoral dissertation; who wants to do all that work? Turnitin caught me, but due to my shame for doing so, I'm keeping the degree."

"Yes, that was my car in the handicapped space, and I got ticketed, but as I am filled with remorse I'm not paying the fine."

"Well sure the DNC stacked the deck against Sanders, and the emails detailing that were leaked, but since we are sorry........."

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WindDancer13's picture

No need to apologize, feel remorse or say I'm sorry. HRC has never done any of those, and I understand that hers is the high standard that we are being told to aspire to. She has said that it was a mistake, mistakes were made or I wouldn't do it again.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

Ajaradom's picture

paradigm shift or is it a paradigm shift of ethics ---- lol whatever way you look at it it's a change for the fucking worse --- and I don't see no one expressing their sorry, regret or remorse no where --- I see lots of arrogance, entitlement and superiority oh and a whole heapin lots of fucking smugness!

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That never worked when I tried that as a kid!

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Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.

dervish's picture

Election Justice USA has put out a report on election fraud during the 2016 primaries.

Here it is

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

Thanks - an amazing and very comprehensive report, although in this first reading I wound up skimming some and zipping over other large areas, the latter rather ironically due to a shadow-bar which appears across the document and over the top arrow whenever your cursor begins to approach, stopping you from going back if you touched the bottom arrow a smidge too high, while there's no movement from touching it a smidge too low... Says - even only regarding the exit polls, among the myriad dirty tactics used - that it appears that 'Sanders may have handily won the primary'. If not for the massive voter suppression and cheating itemized and analyzed within the report, of course...

In any event, such as this report, such evidence trails as the DNC emails leaks and the findings of various lawsuits will be figuring in Bernie's strategies, where he can do one of his patented 'impossible' wins, although in this case, it would be more a question of having his existing win recognized/replicated.

No wonder Trump and his supporters are trolling Bernie supporters and attempting to label Bernie as a sell-out or coward - Trump can beat Clinton in real votes, but not Bernie, not in a fair election, any more than Hillary would have been able to.

And if, in the event of an observed election re-do, many of Bernie's actual supporters can be convinced to abandon him to stay with the Green Party or vote for Trump, the split vote could enable the corporations to win after all. But any election re-do has to be forced from outside the Dem Party/White House -and Bernie himself cannot initiate or even demand this, without being destroyed, and the best final chance to break out toward democracy with him.

At this point, it seems that massive protest will be required to make it clear that The People are not willing to let yet another electoral theft and corporate-selected candidate 'win' 'left to stand as a done deal'.

Especially with the stakes literally life or death for humanity and planetary life, along with The People's right of protective domestic law and legitimately democratic government, rather than a corporate for-profit tyranny.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

It's different when you're all psychopaths Clintons, billionaires and their other stooges together!

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

GreatLakeSailor's picture

...and that is socioeconomic status of the transgressor.

Authoritarianism 101: it is not the act but the actor that determines right from wrong, good from bad, moral from amoral, legal from illegal.

Yah see, these people in the DNC were really important with really impressive high-up titles that work really hard for your benefit...

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Compensated Spokes Model for Big Poor.