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Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social |
"Nazi legal theorists argued that politics was a matter of defining the enemy and choosing a side. The rule of law was to yield to a special sort unrule, in which the chieftain defined politics by choosing an enemy to be blamed for his own crimes."
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Janet Linde
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"Rule of law" is there to protect me from you and you from me. It's the membrane that allows peaceful osmosis of disputes so that wild-west vigilantism is unnecessary. Are we losing it now? And are Trump and his cronies to blame? (That last question is rhetorical.)
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@jmikaelk.bsky.social
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The most horrifying description of politics I've heard was from Carl Schmitt. He said that a true Nazi does not need hate or moral reasons for annihilating the enemy. A true Nazi destroys the enemy simply because they are the enemy.
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