@Bubblebathgirl If you read the ruling, it makes perfect sense. Congress named the Kennedy Center. Only Congress has the authority to change the name. Congress hasn’t changed the name. Trump’s name must come down. Simple.
There will never be another opportunity like this. A new engine formula in 2028 is the perfect moment for Indycar to give the fans and the drivers what they want. V8, 1000+hp, 15,000rpm+, sustainable fuel. This is the moment. It isn’t too late to change path.
@alphafox I don’t have to imagine it, I was there. It was one of the only times we had a TV in the classroom. They rolled the cart into the lunchroom so we could watch over the lunch break, then back to class.
After the Nuremberg Trials, one of the most unsettling conclusions did not come from the courtroom, but from the psychiatrist tasked with evaluating the defendants.
Dr. Douglas Kelley, the U.S. Army psychiatrist assigned to assess many of the senior Nazi officials, expected to find monsters people fundamentally different from the rest of humanity. He did not.
What disturbed him most was how ordinary they were.
They were not raving madmen. They were not obvious sociopaths. They were intelligent, educated, and often convinced they were simply doing their duty, following orders, or serving a higher cause. Kelley warned that this was the real danger: evil does not always look abnormal. It often presents itself as competence, obedience, and institutional loyalty.
His central warning was deeply uncomfortable there are people with morally vacant or destructive tendencies everywhere. In every society. In every era. What determines the outcome is whether systems elevate those people, shield them from accountability, and normalize their behavior, and whether ordinary citizens are willing to question authority when it matters most.
Modern bureaucracies and institutions are powerful precisely because they diffuse responsibility. Decisions are broken into policies, protocols, committees, and “best practices.” Harm is rarely framed as harm; it is reframed as necessity, risk management, or compliance. Individuals are encouraged not to think morally, but procedurally.
This is how ordinary people become capable of extraordinary wrongdoing by outsourcing conscience to institutions and convincing themselves that accountability lies somewhere else.
The lesson of Nuremberg is not that “those people were different.” It is that they were not.
That is why vigilance matters. That is why blind trust in authority is dangerous. And that is why a healthy society must protect dissent, accountability, and moral courage especially when it is inconvenient.
History does not repeat itself because people forget facts. It repeats itself when people convince themselves, “It could never happen here.”
@davidwkay@JonahDispatch To be fair, we’ve all been listening to this kind of stuff for the better part of a decade.
So, yeah, we are pretty familiar with it.
@bennyjohnson You really need to lay off whatever you are taking.
They have Homan dead to rights taking a bribe.
Vance knows it, tried to deflect, and, rightly, got cut off.
Nobody with any sense is buying it anymore.
Where are those Epstein files?
@emeriticus I seem to recall reading somewhere that, at the time, people thought the very same thing before our last Civil War. History is really interesting. More people should study it. They might learn something.