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@CilComLFC Where have we seen this authoritarian move before?

I can’t believe I’m posting this, but I believe the Irish Government has FROZEN my Bank Account. My bank card has not been working since yesterday - when my posts about the current protests in Ireland began to go viral. This is insanity. The Irish Government is drunk on power.

I'd forgotten about this event, where Laurie Penny got her arse deservedly handed to her after she made an unprovoked personal attack on David Starkey. I expect it was about this time that she started suffering from PTSD.

If London is so safe, swap your bulletproof jeep and armed bodyguard and travel around on a bike like Boris did. Prove us “wrong” Sadiq.

Those cheering on the ‘Online Safety Act’ and the termination of anonymous access to the internet - including all the Tories who not only passed it in the first place but now applaud Starmer’s authoritarianism: you are ushering in an era when the likes of Khan will crush all dissenting speech.

@Jonas_Ceika Ok you now need to ask it to name your track.

I sent ChatGPT an audio file of a series of FART sound effects and asked what it thinks of "my music" and this is what it said

@triffic_stuff_ Imagine if we had a Prime Minister who looked at world events and then made the necessary adjustments to domestic policy in order to shore up defenses both militarily and economically. No we have a feckless human rights lawyer who thinks lecturing people to behave will work.

🚨STARMER BLASTS TRUMP: IT’S TRUMP’S FAULT UK FAMILIES HAVE SKY HIGH ENERGY BILLS! 😳 Prime Minister Points Finger Directly At Us President For Punishing British Households With Wild And Soaring Price Swings Whoa! Keir Starmer has taken the gloves off completely and is now openly blaming President Donald Trump, alongside Putin, for the sky-high and fluctuating energy bills hammering UK families and businesses. Speaking during his Gulf visit as oil prices surged above $110 a barrel amid escalating Middle East tensions and Trump’s strong rhetoric, the Prime Minister unleashed his frustration at global leaders he claims are causing the chaos. “I’m fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy, businesses bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world,” Starmer declared. This provocative swipe escalates transatlantic tensions, but critics are pointing to Starmer’s net zero obsession, refusal to allow new North Sea drilling, and heavy green taxes have left Britain dangerously reliant on volatile imports, making UK energy prices among the highest in the world regardless of international events.

So the Green Party want to open borders, make drugs legal & abolish prisons! Wow. I genuinely think you need to be missing your marbles if you vote for this.

@ArchRose90 Not far right, just right so far.

People like this are calling you “far-right”. I’m happy to be on the opposite side of whatever this is.

@Daisy_Dook He blinks only 3 times in the space of that 30 seconds. Psychopath.

It's disgraceful It's disgusting It's not to be tolerated It's wrong It's unlawful We are not going to tolerate it We will take action The arsehole is talking about 'X' I Guess our children getting raped by immigrants doesn't anger him enough, not one little bit! I've seen more personality in a plank of wood.

🚨IRELAND ON THE BRINK! In the last 24 hours, Irish patriots have shut down the nation! Truck drivers, bus operators and farmers have paralysed cities with massive blockades. Even as Gardaí threaten 6 months in jail, more patriots flood the streets in defiance. Ireland is primed for revolution.

@OneloveninjaJoe @kaizen000000000 If you've figured out how to stop rape, why haven't you done it yet? That means every rape that is happening around the world today is another one you've allowed or happen. You must be evil.

@NameInteger @kaizen000000000 Well, apparently I'm smarter and more loving than this "God" you speak of. Cause I can figure out how to stop r*p* without removing "free will".

Tracie Harris❤️

@OneloveninjaJoe @kaizen000000000 And I'm saying that the absence of a tyrannical dictator God who forces you to do the right thing in every scenario no matter your personal will does not disprove the existence of a loving God who grants free will. That is a denial of the antecedent.

@NameInteger @kaizen000000000 I'm saying this "all knowing, all loving God" isn't real.

@marshallpittman @kaizen000000000 So I can have a different morality to you?

It is a system to determine right from wrong. It can be a code of principles, values, or judgements, either thought or written, that determine your actions, your character, and help you to predict the consequences of your actions. It can also be an intuition, if unexamined. It can be what you "ought" to do. It can be a set of rules. You can just go along, copy and paste from those around you. Or, you can develop your own code from examination, thought, and consideration. there may be better definitions. each person might understand it differently depending on their experiences with moral codes and how it affected them, or if they have every considered the idea.

Tell me again that believers/religious people are not arrogant... Alex o'connor 💯❤️

@marshallpittman @kaizen000000000 What is morality?

You don't have to discuss any particular named philosophy, so that you can ascribe all kinds of things that I am not saying, but that would be included in any ideological lexicon of that named philosophy. I have read Rand, and she spoke to the people of her time, but many would easily mischaracterize her words because they no longer know the context. I am not an adherent, though it is a good place to start your own thinking. Evolutionary biology studies this development of morality. EB is not my specialty. By studying animals we can see the precursor to morality, like empathy, consolation, social concern, cooperation, and reciprocity. When a species becomes highly interdependent (like new world monkeys and human), there a group survival advantages to moral behavior. These elements of morality are not unique to humans and have evolved many times on the earth. Gene-level selection is a major mechanisms that contributes, so it is not just group benefit. Genes are propagated by kin selection, reciprocal altruism, moral emotions, and physical structures like mirror neurons, or our lymphatic system to warn of danger before our brain realizes it. Humans layers our ability to reason, plan, and imagine on top of these physical systems. We have moral intuitions such as disgust at harm, fairness, loyalty to a group, etc., that are rooted in cognitive "modules" shaped in the Pleistocene to solve recurring social problems like cheating, kin investment, and coalition-building. We can build modern morals on these systems, but sometimes discover conflicts with our reasoning when we try to expand our circle of care. We were evolved to have relationships with about 150 individuals, and loving the entire world might be a stretch that confuses our intuition. Culture, language, society, our personal experiences help us to produce a moral code. You can copy and paste one from your religion or political ideology. You can set to the task of deliberately developing one yourself. Or, you can lead an unexamined life and follow you own wants to desires, which usually leads to harm for yourself and others. Most people are successful, at least in the US, if they grow up in a home with both parents, finish high school, and get married before they have children. Other paths lead to limited choices, ignorance of the possibilities, or responsibilities beyond an ability to meet them. Of course, belief in a god *can* be a way to obtain a moral system. But, then it would be an arbitrary system that you have to negotiate with ("do I get to 'utterly destroy' my neighbor because my church says he is evil?") and you still have to study to see if the adopted system matches reality. But, god is not the origin of morality and is not necessary to develop a morality, meaning, or to value another life. This is brief, an overview, but hopefully gives you a flavor. Any one of these subjects was probably someone's PhD. paper! There is plenty of research, like Frans de Waal's pioneering work demonstrating through experiments and observations: for example, capuchin monkeys rejecting unequal rewards.

@marshallpittman @kaizen000000000 So now we've established there is law of nature, explain to me how humans have developed empathy, altruism and self-sacrifice for strangers and enemies, without relying on Randian philosophy.

I am not ignoring natural law. I am invoking it many ways: -- "Natural law is a philosophical and legal theory that holds there are universal moral principles or rules of justice inherent in human nature and/or the structure of reality. These principles are discoverable through reason (rather than solely through revelation, custom, or arbitrary human decree) and serve as a standard to evaluate, guide, or limit human-made laws (known as positive law). In essence, natural law theory asserts that "right" and "wrong" are not purely subjective, cultural inventions, or matters of power—they are objective and rooted in the way things are (nature). Actions or laws that violate these principles are considered unjust or defective, even if enacted by a legitimate government." [britannica.com/topic/natural-…] -- Reality would be the authority, not some divine being. Even if the divine being gave us laws, they would have to agree with reality in order to be valid. I am also not projecting. This is not something that feel or have made up. These statements are based on scientific research and empirical evidence. Evolutionary biologists have established these traits.

@marshallpittman @kaizen000000000 Without some higher authority, then there is no such thing as morality. I don't know how you can basically be ignoring the natural laws and claim to be an atheist. All your doing is projecting human traits onto your dog. Anthropomorphising a behaviour based on your own values.

Animals have a nascent sense of morality that plants may not have. It is not fully developed or a code, but a start. Scripture may have some great insights into human psychology. That does not mean it comes from a god. Especially when humans are fully capable of having and devleoping these ideas. Their is nothing other-worldly about morality. It is not mystical or divine. You can base a meaningful, complete set of morals upon objective reality, your own reason, and the facts that you are alive and there are other human beings. In fact, the "even sinners love those who love them" does not describe the extent of objective morality. That phrase is still couched in a divine definition of good and evil. Any living being is encompassed in an objective morality. This beats the command to "utterly destroy" certain enemy nations, such as the Amalekites, simply because they are evil -- where is the understanding of human life in that?

@marshallpittman @kaizen000000000 “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.” Returning like for like is not morality, it's simply a base natural response. Two serial killers might have respect and adoration for each other.

Dogs and human have co-evolved. We have helped to shape each other's cognitive abilities and moral intuitions. While human have greater capacity and self-consciousness, dogs as not biological automatons. To say he "only does things because..." is to ignore a wealth of research in evolutionary biology about the intelligence and cognitive ability of animals. I never claimed my dog was following a moral code, which can only be developed by self-conscious beings. What a dog does have, though, is a moral intuition, or a nascent morality. Capuchin monkeys have an understanding of fairness, elephants mourn their dead. Their as line of development of moral conciousness. Animals do not have a revelation from god nor the reason to understand one. So, this is evidence that morality does not come from divine law, but is an evolved sense of how to treat other living beings.