All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

Better yet, read a novel. And consider that people feel stuff.

Still the best explanation of Russian tactics and the difficulty of deterrence. From: Yes, Prime Minister.

Imagine your favorite sports game but with all players replaced by crack smoking raccoons. That’s what international politics is now.

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

You can’t do “mass” deportation and give due process, and what conclusion you draw from that says important stuff about your commitment to law.

Georgi Demidow erlebte die Ohnmacht des Einzelnen in der UdSSR, machte Romane daraus, die erst nach seinem Tod erschienen. Nüchtern schildern sie den Großen Terror.

25 Jahre nach Sebastian Haffners »Geschichte eines Deutschen« gibt seine Familie einen neuen großen Text aus dem Nachlass frei. 1932 an der Schwelle zum Nationalsozialismus verfasst, besteht »Abschied« einmalig gewitzt und rasant auf Weltläufigkeit, Liebe und Überschwang.

Germany did destroy itself almost a century ago. It wasn’t because it took in too many migrants. It was because it fell for arguments uncomfortably close to Vance’s.

Language used by individuals associated with the federal government who deported people without trial or due process to a concentration camp in El Salvador, defying a court order, has a specific resonance that, historically, has been used to change regime type. snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

One more time please

Germany‘s got the best US bases in the world. Beautiful bases. Tremendous. Nobody has anything like it. And, frankly, we’re giving them to the US for free. Can you imagine that? For free! It’s nasty what they’re doing to us, really. So we want a better deal. The US‘s gotta pay. They gotta pay. 🫲🫱

Es ging und geht nie um „Freedom of speech“. Es ging und geht bei Faschisten immer nur um „Kritik und Gegenrede nicht aushalten wollen“, es geht, die Geschichte lehrt es, darum, nur eine Haltung zuzulassen: Die eigene.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

»Ach.«

Der 1970 gestorbene Autor Roger Van de Velde beschrieb in seinen Erzählungen das einstige Leben in der Psychiatrie. Nun sind sie erstmals auf Deutsch erschienen.