We lost something useful when we started to stigmatize accurately labeling bad ideas and bad output as such.

Yes, too many people were (are?) assholes about it and that is a problem.

But after spending nearly a decade watching people get Super Pumped™️ about ideas and products that range from meh to hot garbage, I suspect it has done more to clear space for cynical actors than whatever well-meaning purpose was intended.

Anyway, setting aside the ethical concerns, it seems perfectly clear that "setting aside the ethical concerns" is *precisely* the problem.

It is what got us in to this nightmare, and it is what is keeping us in this nightmare.

Please stop pretending that "setting aside the ethical concerns" is anything but a verbal signal indicating one's unwillingness to take personal responsibility for one's actions.

Removing the horrors, even reducing them, seems beyond our feeble powers. But we are many, and the powerful are few. If we each peck away at the system where we can, we just might get it done.

Pick your form of resistance, and resist. If your form is fun for you, so much the better.

Resist!

“Acting AG Todd Blanche wants DOJ to stop focusing on Epstein files: 'It should not be part of anything going forward.’”

The coverup continues: https://people.com/acting-ag-todd-blanche-says-epstein-files-should-not-be-doj-priority-11942411

Them: if you set aside all the ethical concerns…

Me: this is what evil is. This is how evil talks.