#legalism — Public Fediverse posts
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In today's new #HoPWaG episode we look at the short-lived Qin empire, which unified China to put an end to the Warring States period. Was this Legalist philosophy in action? www.historyofphilosophy.net/qin-dynasty #philsky #china #chinesehistory #philosophy #podcast #legalism
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In today's new #HoPWaG episode we look at the short-lived Qin empire, which unified China to put an end to the Warring States period. Was this Legalist philosophy in action? www.historyofphilosophy.net/qin-dynasty #philsky #china #chinesehistory #philosophy #podcast #legalism
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In today's new #HoPWaG episode we look at the short-lived Qin empire, which unified China to put an end to the Warring States period. Was this Legalist philosophy in action? www.historyofphilosophy.net/qin-dynasty #philsky #china #chinesehistory #philosophy #podcast #legalism
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In today's new #HoPWaG episode we look at the short-lived Qin empire, which unified China to put an end to the Warring States period. Was this Legalist philosophy in action? www.historyofphilosophy.net/qin-dynasty #philsky #china #chinesehistory #philosophy #podcast #legalism
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In today's new #HoPWaG episode we look at the short-lived Qin empire, which unified China to put an end to the Warring States period. Was this Legalist philosophy in action? www.historyofphilosophy.net/qin-dynasty #philsky #china #chinesehistory #philosophy #podcast #legalism
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A quotation from Brennan Manning
The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds. I drop hints about the absolute priority of meditation and contemplation to create the impression that I am a man of prayer. At some unremembered moment I have lost the connection between internal purity of heart and external works of piety. In the most humiliating sense of the word, I have become a legalist. I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.
Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 7 “Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hot Dogs” (1990)More about this quote: wist.info/manning-brennan/8348…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brennanmanning #appearances #faithandworks #intention #legalism #legalist #motivation #motive #performance #purpose #sin #virtue #wordsanddeeds #works
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A quotation from Brennan Manning
The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds. I drop hints about the absolute priority of meditation and contemplation to create the impression that I am a man of prayer. At some unremembered moment I have lost the connection between internal purity of heart and external works of piety. In the most humiliating sense of the word, I have become a legalist. I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.
Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 7 “Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hot Dogs” (1990)More about this quote: wist.info/manning-brennan/8348…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brennanmanning #appearances #faithandworks #intention #legalism #legalist #motivation #motive #performance #purpose #sin #virtue #wordsanddeeds #works
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A quotation from Brennan Manning
The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds. I drop hints about the absolute priority of meditation and contemplation to create the impression that I am a man of prayer. At some unremembered moment I have lost the connection between internal purity of heart and external works of piety. In the most humiliating sense of the word, I have become a legalist. I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.
Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 7 “Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hot Dogs” (1990)More about this quote: wist.info/manning-brennan/8348…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brennanmanning #appearances #faithandworks #intention #legalism #legalist #motivation #motive #performance #purpose #sin #virtue #wordsanddeeds #works
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A quotation from Brennan Manning
The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds. I drop hints about the absolute priority of meditation and contemplation to create the impression that I am a man of prayer. At some unremembered moment I have lost the connection between internal purity of heart and external works of piety. In the most humiliating sense of the word, I have become a legalist. I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.
Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 7 “Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hot Dogs” (1990)More about this quote: wist.info/manning-brennan/8348…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brennanmanning #appearances #faithandworks #intention #legalism #legalist #motivation #motive #performance #purpose #sin #virtue #wordsanddeeds #works
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Today we launch a new mini-series on the History of Philosophy in China podcast, covering "fa" thought or "Legalism." Was it a coherent tradition, and does it deserve its nasty reputation? www.historyofphilosophy.net/legalism #philosophy #podcasts #legalism #chinesephilosophy #philsky
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"Wow! Almost like punishing everything with death is more inducement than deterrent!"
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The most significant aspect of the demonstrations has been the growing call for a general strike against the Trump administration. There is a ...
As students walked out in opposition to fascistic attacks that threatened their communities, friends and families, teachers were ordered to do the opposite: remain in their classrooms, obey administrative directives and suppress any collective respon…#Education #teachers #generalstrike #legalism #Spokane #Washington #Sweetwater #California #UTLA #SEA #SpokaneEducationAssociation #SweetwaterEducationAssociation #RandiWeingarten #Minneapolis #ICE #Trump #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #immigration
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The most significant aspect of the demonstrations has been the growing call for a general strike against the Trump administration. There is a ...
As students walked out in opposition to fascistic attacks that threatened their communities, friends and families, teachers were ordered to do the opposite: remain in their classrooms, obey administrative directives and suppress any collective respon…#Education #teachers #generalstrike #legalism #Spokane #Washington #Sweetwater #California #UTLA #SEA #SpokaneEducationAssociation #SweetwaterEducationAssociation #RandiWeingarten #Minneapolis #ICE #Trump #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #immigration
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The most significant aspect of the demonstrations has been the growing call for a general strike against the Trump administration. There is a ...
As students walked out in opposition to fascistic attacks that threatened their communities, friends and families, teachers were ordered to do the opposite: remain in their classrooms, obey administrative directives and suppress any collective respon…#Education #teachers #generalstrike #legalism #Spokane #Washington #Sweetwater #California #UTLA #SEA #SpokaneEducationAssociation #SweetwaterEducationAssociation #RandiWeingarten #Minneapolis #ICE #Trump #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #immigration
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The most significant aspect of the demonstrations has been the growing call for a general strike against the Trump administration. There is a ...
As students walked out in opposition to fascistic attacks that threatened their communities, friends and families, teachers were ordered to do the opposite: remain in their classrooms, obey administrative directives and suppress any collective respon…#Education #teachers #generalstrike #legalism #Spokane #Washington #Sweetwater #California #UTLA #SEA #SpokaneEducationAssociation #SweetwaterEducationAssociation #RandiWeingarten #Minneapolis #ICE #Trump #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #immigration
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Direct link to The Intercept's story: https://theintercept.com/2025/10/22/gaza-journalist-court-axel-springer-bild-hamas/
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What the fuck‽ This is bullshit legalism. https://journa.host/@theintercept/115423955410579671
Archive link for actual post-linked story: https://archive.is/wiZdU
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Please join me for an examination of #legalism and #grace. https://www.youtube.com/live/Zzt_QzT3sfU
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The Virtue of Laziness -- a strange phrase, but gets to the good and the bad of wrestling with God's Word. How about joining me in a moment for tonight's livestream and I'll explain... https://youtube.com/live/uvYGZiX_MDI
#Laziness #Perl #LarryWall #Christianity #Grace #Gospel #Legalism
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The Virtue of Laziness -- a strange phrase, but gets to the good and the bad of wrestling with God's Word. How about joining me in a moment for tonight's livestream and I'll explain... https://youtube.com/live/uvYGZiX_MDI
#Laziness #Perl #LarryWall #Christianity #Grace #Gospel #Legalism
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We're hearing a lot about what society needs, what a church needs to do, what we need personally... Jesus happens to talk about what we need in John 5... Join me on the livestream! https://www.youtube.com/live/AMGa66JDiAQ
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@georgetakei #SCOTUS was supposed to *prevent* fascists like trump from ever subverting the US government.
This psychopath was instrumental in enabling trump and the MAGA cum techbro perversion of the state.
This psycho is not the "deranged but'brilliant" architect of fascist USA (there isn't one, they're all hateful morons); he's merely a hateful fucking rubberstamper.
The original 'legal architect' of the Nazis — the unrepentent Carl Schmitt — got off nearly scot-free after the WWI.
roberts is more akin to an auschwitz clerk. And those were belatedly hunted down and prosecuted.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 48 (1820)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #bureaucracy #commonsense #correctness #error #legalism #pedantry #procedure #rules
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Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are not good? Is there any necessity for a man’s being a tool to perform a deed of which his better nature disapproves? Is it the intention of law-makers that good men shall be hung ever?
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Speech (1859-10-30), “A Plea for Captain John Brown,” Concord, MassachusettsSourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #government #injustice #justice #law #lawenforcement #legalism #conscience
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Jesus also told this parable to people who were sure of their own goodness and despised everybody else. “Once there were two men who went up to the Temple to pray: one was a Pharisee, the other a tax collector.
“The Pharisee stood apart by himself and prayed, ‘I thank you, God, that I am not greedy, dishonest, or an adulterer, like everybody else. I thank you that I am not like that tax collector over there. I fast two days a week, and I give you one tenth of all my income.’
“But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his face to heaven, but beat on his breast and said, ‘God, have pity on me, a sinner!’
“I tell you,” said Jesus, “the tax collector, and not the Pharisee, was in the right with God when he went home. For those who make themselves great will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be made great.”
[Εἶπεν δὲ καὶ πρός τινας τοὺς πεποιθότας ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτοῖς ὅτι εἰσὶν δίκαιοι καὶ ἐξουθενοῦντας τοὺς λοιποὺς τὴν παραβολὴν ταύτην· Ἄνθρωποι δύο ἀνέβησαν εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν προσεύξασθαι, ὁ εἷς Φαρισαῖος καὶ ὁ ἕτερος τελώνης.
ὁ Φαρισαῖος σταθεὶς πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ταῦτα προσηύχετο, Ὁ θεός, εὐχαριστῶ σοι ὅτι οὐκ εἰμὶ ὥσπερ οἱ λοιποὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἅρπαγες, ἄδικοι, μοιχοί, ἢ καὶ ὡς οὗτος ὁ τελώνης· νηστεύω δὶς τοῦ σαββάτου, ἀποδεκατῶ πάντα ὅσα κτῶμαι.
ὁ δὲ τελώνης μακρόθεν ἑστὼς οὐκ ἤθελεν οὐδὲ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἐπᾶραι εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν, ἀλλ᾽ ἔτυπτεν τὸ στῆθος αὐτοῦ λέγων, Ὁ θεός, ἱλάσθητί μοι τῷ ἁμαρτωλῷ.
λέγω ὑμῖν, κατέβη οὗτος δεδικαιωμένος εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ παρ᾽ ἐκεῖνον· ὅτι πᾶς ὁ ὑψῶν ἑαυτὸν ταπεινωθήσεται, ὁ δὲ ταπεινῶν ἑαυτὸν ὑψωθήσεται.]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Luke 18: 9-14, “The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector” [GNT (1992 ed.)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/bible-nt/35493/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #jesus #parable #faithandworks #arrogance #ego #hubris #humility #legalism #pride #repentance #selfimportance #selfrighteousness #sin #sinner #works
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Jesus also told this parable to people who were sure of their own goodness and despised everybody else. “Once there were two men who went up to the Temple to pray: one was a Pharisee, the other a tax collector.
“The Pharisee stood apart by himself and prayed, ‘I thank you, God, that I am not greedy, dishonest, or an adulterer, like everybody else. I thank you that I am not like that tax collector over there. I fast two days a week, and I give you one tenth of all my income.’
“But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his face to heaven, but beat on his breast and said, ‘God, have pity on me, a sinner!’
“I tell you,” said Jesus, “the tax collector, and not the Pharisee, was in the right with God when he went home. For those who make themselves great will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be made great.”
[Εἶπεν δὲ καὶ πρός τινας τοὺς πεποιθότας ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτοῖς ὅτι εἰσὶν δίκαιοι καὶ ἐξουθενοῦντας τοὺς λοιποὺς τὴν παραβολὴν ταύτην· Ἄνθρωποι δύο ἀνέβησαν εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν προσεύξασθαι, ὁ εἷς Φαρισαῖος καὶ ὁ ἕτερος τελώνης.
ὁ Φαρισαῖος σταθεὶς πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ταῦτα προσηύχετο, Ὁ θεός, εὐχαριστῶ σοι ὅτι οὐκ εἰμὶ ὥσπερ οἱ λοιποὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἅρπαγες, ἄδικοι, μοιχοί, ἢ καὶ ὡς οὗτος ὁ τελώνης· νηστεύω δὶς τοῦ σαββάτου, ἀποδεκατῶ πάντα ὅσα κτῶμαι.
ὁ δὲ τελώνης μακρόθεν ἑστὼς οὐκ ἤθελεν οὐδὲ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἐπᾶραι εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν, ἀλλ᾽ ἔτυπτεν τὸ στῆθος αὐτοῦ λέγων, Ὁ θεός, ἱλάσθητί μοι τῷ ἁμαρτωλῷ.
λέγω ὑμῖν, κατέβη οὗτος δεδικαιωμένος εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ παρ᾽ ἐκεῖνον· ὅτι πᾶς ὁ ὑψῶν ἑαυτὸν ταπεινωθήσεται, ὁ δὲ ταπεινῶν ἑαυτὸν ὑψωθήσεται.]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Luke 18: 9-14, “The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector” [GNT (1992 ed.)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/bible-nt/35493/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #jesus #parable #faithandworks #arrogance #ego #hubris #humility #legalism #pride #repentance #selfimportance #selfrighteousness #sin #sinner #works
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Jesus also told this parable to people who were sure of their own goodness and despised everybody else. “Once there were two men who went up to the Temple to pray: one was a Pharisee, the other a tax collector.
“The Pharisee stood apart by himself and prayed, ‘I thank you, God, that I am not greedy, dishonest, or an adulterer, like everybody else. I thank you that I am not like that tax collector over there. I fast two days a week, and I give you one tenth of all my income.’
“But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his face to heaven, but beat on his breast and said, ‘God, have pity on me, a sinner!’
“I tell you,” said Jesus, “the tax collector, and not the Pharisee, was in the right with God when he went home. For those who make themselves great will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be made great.”
[Εἶπεν δὲ καὶ πρός τινας τοὺς πεποιθότας ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτοῖς ὅτι εἰσὶν δίκαιοι καὶ ἐξουθενοῦντας τοὺς λοιποὺς τὴν παραβολὴν ταύτην· Ἄνθρωποι δύο ἀνέβησαν εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν προσεύξασθαι, ὁ εἷς Φαρισαῖος καὶ ὁ ἕτερος τελώνης.
ὁ Φαρισαῖος σταθεὶς πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ταῦτα προσηύχετο, Ὁ θεός, εὐχαριστῶ σοι ὅτι οὐκ εἰμὶ ὥσπερ οἱ λοιποὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἅρπαγες, ἄδικοι, μοιχοί, ἢ καὶ ὡς οὗτος ὁ τελώνης· νηστεύω δὶς τοῦ σαββάτου, ἀποδεκατῶ πάντα ὅσα κτῶμαι.
ὁ δὲ τελώνης μακρόθεν ἑστὼς οὐκ ἤθελεν οὐδὲ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἐπᾶραι εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν, ἀλλ᾽ ἔτυπτεν τὸ στῆθος αὐτοῦ λέγων, Ὁ θεός, ἱλάσθητί μοι τῷ ἁμαρτωλῷ.
λέγω ὑμῖν, κατέβη οὗτος δεδικαιωμένος εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ παρ᾽ ἐκεῖνον· ὅτι πᾶς ὁ ὑψῶν ἑαυτὸν ταπεινωθήσεται, ὁ δὲ ταπεινῶν ἑαυτὸν ὑψωθήσεται.]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Luke 18: 9-14, “The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector” [GNT (1992 ed.)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/bible-nt/35493/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #jesus #parable #faithandworks #arrogance #ego #hubris #humility #legalism #pride #repentance #selfimportance #selfrighteousness #sin #sinner #works
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"A cheerful anti-fascist organizer from Prague used to tell a joke that went something like this:
After the Second World War, a Czech anti-fascist and a Yugoslavian partisan met at a beach on the Adriatic.
Eventually, the inevitable question came up. 'What did you do in the war?' the Czech anti-fascist asked the partisan.
'Oh, the usual stuff,' answered the partisan. 'We formed underground networks, ran background checks on potential recruits, set up safe houses and clandestine print shops. Then we started sabotaging railways and telephone lines. Eventually, we worked our way up to carrying out raids to seize weapons. With those, we started retaking villages and then whole regions until finally, we ran the Nazis right out of the country.'
'All of that sounds like a great time, answered the Czech anti-fascist. 'Unfortunately, where we were, all of those things were illegal!'"
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
PRECEDENT, n. In Law, a previous decision, rule or practice which, in the absence of a definite statute, has whatever force and authority a Judge may choose to give it, thereby greatly simplifying his task of doing as he pleases. As there are precedents for everything, he has only to ignore those that make against his interest and accentuate those in the line of his desire.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Precedent,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/76306…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #law #cherrypicking #judge #justicesystem #legalsystem #legalism #precedent #staredecisis
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Nobody tell the US Supreme Court!
#legalism #textualism #dogma #superstition #taboos #formality #religiosity
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[TL:DR: We need to stop the perversion of rule of law *globally*; concentrate on supporting democracies instead of despots. 💰 ]
On Carl Schmitt, the 'legal architect' of the Third Reich and inspiration to present day authoritarians.
「For Schmitt, every government capable of decisive action must include a dictatorial element within its constitution. Although the German concept of Ausnahmezustand is best translated as "state of emergency", it literally means "state of exception" which, according to Schmitt, frees the executive from any legal restraints to its power that would normally apply. The use of the term "exceptional" has to be underlined here: Schmitt defines sovereignty as the power to decide to initiate a state of exception [...]」
「Through the state of exception, Schmitt included all types of violence under right, in the case of the authority of Hitler leading to the formulation "The leader defends the law" ("Der Führer schützt das Recht").」
「Some have argued that Schmitt has become an important influence on Chinese political theory in the 21st century, particularly since Xi Jinping became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012.
Schmitt's ideas have proved popular and useful instruments in justifying the legitimacy of Chinese Communist Party rule」
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On July 1, 2024, (Chief Justice John) Roberts wrote the majority opinion in Trump v. United States, writing that *a president has absolute immunity for acts committed as president within their constitutional purview, presumptive immunity for official acts* , and no immunity for unofficial acts.
#CarlSchmitt #Legalism #nazism #fascism #SCOTUS #JohnRoberts #CCP #china
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@atrupar The modern era father of this age-old idea that the judiciary must serve the regime or The Leader in full and without question is Carl Schmitt, the the Nazi ideologue who created the pseudo-rational legal framework for the Third Reich known as Legalism.
This is great for despots since it removes any normal legal recourse the people might have to oppose unaccountable authoritarian leaders.
In fact it is just a flick of a pen away to make the very act of opposing the regime illegal, and punishable by whatever measures the regime sees fit... And voilà, crushing all dissent is now not only virtuous but a *legally required* act!
Cue to "I was only following orders..."
Incidentally, the Chinese communist party turned to Carl Schmitt's legalism in early 2000's in search of a raison d'être for their continued dictatorship after actual 'communism' had failed as an ideology. Schmitt's ideas also meshed well with CCP's newly re-introduced ethno-nationalist and imperialist dogma, so what's not to like.
The MAGA ideologues pulling strings behind trump and the Project 2025 are, quelle surprise, also enamoured with Carl Schmitt...
#lawfare #authoritarianism #legalism #carlschmitt #nazism #maga #project2025 #CCP
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There's a reason #Hongkongers started calling the CCP types #chinazi during the crushed 2019 pro-democracy uprising.
After the dismal and murderous failure of the regime's communist economics, CCP found new raison d'etre in totalitarian nationalism with klepto-socialist characteristics. hitler's 12-year reich called it #nazionalsozialismus, but we know it as #nazism.
Just like the initial late 1800s European nationalism was imported to messy late-imperial China (hello KMT!) from Germany along with marxism a few decades later (hello CCP!), the clueless communists went back to the source to scavenge for solutions and realized how effing effective nazism had been, at least in terms of CCP's needs.
#Lebensraum expansionism, strictly hierarchical homogenized ubermensch ruling over untermensch (Han-chauvinism), Carl #Schmitt's #legalism (aka "rule-by-law) could codify any act of despotism, everything harnessed to serve the Party and its military.
One Leader, one empire, one language...
Collaborating with the German far-right #AfD (as well as far-left!) is a natural fit for dictatorship that "never interferes in other countries' internal affairs". Besides, #CCP has already captured Germany top industrialists, bankers and academia. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
CCP's nazi/chinazi *policies* never bothered the German political establishment for some reason, but perhaps these direct links help awaken some hibernating moral circuits...?
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Being a non-Partystate-affiliated lawyer in a stalinist #dictatorship where *all* "law" is harnessed to perpetuate the one-party rule is not exactly a dream job for intelligent people.
You will still find some intrepid lawyers in #Chinese state facilities. Just not working on legal issues, but rather facing them. In indefinite detention.
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The artworks the Nazis didn't want you to see (13min)
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The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. They are the lovers of law and order, who observe the law when the government breaks it.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Speech (1854-07-04), “Slavery in Massachusetts,” Anti-Slavery Celebration, Framingham, MassachusettsSourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #civildisobedience #freedom #government #law #lawandorder #liberty #protest #humanrights #higherlaw #constitution #legalism #injustice
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A quotation from Montaigne, Michel de:
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There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.[Il n’est si homme de bien, qu’il mette à l’examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie.]
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/2894/#quote #quotes #quotation #crime #execution #hanging #justice #law #legalism #morality #virtue
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☝️「“Not even one day of detention of Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing could possibly be just. Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing’s treatment from the beginning to end at the hands of the police has been full of violations of Chinese law and procedural justice. It is the Chinese government who should be on trial for its behavior of unlawfully locking up its own citizens merely for the peaceful exercise of their human rights,” said Renee Xia, CHRD’s Director.」
#CHRD #HuangXueqin #WangJianbing #CCP #china #dictatorship #humanrights #legalism #lawfare
@davidonformosa -
re: How to talk about China?
#China and #Chinese people(s) — incl. the colonized peoples — have been harnessed by the parasitic #NeverElected #CCP #dictatorship to serve its paramount need to *stay in power*. That includes systematic eradication of their crimes from historical records and public debate while flooding the 'market' with synthetic propaganda.
Is the latter welcome? For several decades now the crimes against humanity part has been whitewashed with euphemisms as the CCP was elevated to the status of *normalized* business partner. All the while "biding time and hiding strength"; it's objective of defeating democracy and liberalism remaining at the heart of its planning.
After the legitimacy of *actual* communism failed, the CCP seamlessly morphed into a 19th century-inspired national-socialist dictatorship. It is no coincidence that the CCP adopted #legalism from #nazi #thirdreich as its new foundation; i.e. the excuse for its very dictatorship.
When talking about this new post-1989 CCP and its #HanSupremacist empire (in a sense a return to China's imperial roots), the key histocal comparisons should be made to #soviet #russian and the wannabe #nazigermany #imperialjapan empires, the former now under #putin fully re-animated and in "no limits" cahoots with the CCP...
So, "does mainstream discourse focus too much on the (expansionist Chinese dictatorship's) political system"?
Do we need more fluffy pandas, #tiktok flippancy, subsized exports and dancing natives from its colonies? The developing world is essentially a virgin territory for CCP's propaganda while even in the industrialized #democracies the historical understanding of military-expansionist #imperialism is evaporating.
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Good research by #MERICS on CCP's use of sanctions against its #democratic enemies.
The real fun bit comes at the very end: "Unofficial measures".
What this means of course is that because the CCP is a *#dictatorship*, they can really do whatever they want!
CCP's "law" is just a #legalistic facade, just like it was in #Nazi #ThirdReich where the Chinese "communists" in fact copied #legalism from. 🤔
"How China imposes sanctions — A guide to the evolution of Beijing’s new policy tool"
https://merics.org/en/report/how-china-imposes-sanctions「China has to date adopted unilateral sanctions that:
☭ came in response to perceived violations of its red lines and national interests,
☭ did not show any signs of any signs of adopting secondary sanctions,
☭ often came as a mix of official and unofficial measures (i.e., measures that are not officially announced and/or adopted by the central government).The last point makes China’s sanctions policy challenging to respond to. Not only is litigation complicated when non-official measures are adopted, they can also bolster official sanctions, while remaining plausibly deniable. China wants to create the perception that its punitive measures are difficult to predict, in order to discourage other countries’ from sanctioning.」
Unavoidably the paper uses the usual euphemisms wrt. the #neverelected CCP dictatorship. For instance "national interests" of the CCP regime are often diametrically opposed to the interests of its silenced and manipulated subjects, a.k.a "the people". CCP ≠ China
"...and you may ask yourself: 'How did we get here!?' "
#PRC #CCP #beijing #china #unitedfront #AxisOfDespots #appeasement #nixon #kissinger #MFN #WTO
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Good research by #MERICS on CCP's use of sanctions against its #democratic enemies.
The real fun bit comes at the very end: "Unofficial measures".
What this means of course is that because the CCP is a *#dictatorship*, they can really do whatever they want!
CCP's "law" is just a #legalistic facade, just like it was in #Nazi #ThirdReich where the Chinese "communists" in fact copied #legalism from. 🤔
"How China imposes sanctions — A guide to the evolution of Beijing’s new policy tool"
https://merics.org/en/report/how-china-imposes-sanctions「China has to date adopted unilateral sanctions that:
☭ came in response to perceived violations of its red lines and national interests,
☭ did not show any signs of any signs of adopting secondary sanctions,
☭ often came as a mix of official and unofficial measures (i.e., measures that are not officially announced and/or adopted by the central government).The last point makes China’s sanctions policy challenging to respond to. Not only is litigation complicated when non-official measures are adopted, they can also bolster official sanctions, while remaining plausibly deniable. China wants to create the perception that its punitive measures are difficult to predict, in order to discourage other countries’ from sanctioning.」
Unavoidably the paper uses the usual euphemisms wrt. the #neverelected CCP dictatorship. For instance "national interests" of the CCP regime are often diametrically opposed to the interests of its silenced and manipulated subjects, a.k.a "the people". CCP ≠ China
"...and you may ask yourself: 'How did we get here!?' "
#PRC #CCP #beijing #china #unitedfront #AxisOfDespots #appeasement #nixon #kissinger #MFN #WTO
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Good research by #MERICS on CCP's use of sanctions against its #democratic enemies.
The real fun bit comes at the very end: "Unofficial measures".
What this means of course is that because the CCP is a *#dictatorship*, they can really do whatever they want!
CCP's "law" is just a #legalistic facade, just like it was in #Nazi #ThirdReich where the Chinese "communists" in fact copied #legalism from. 🤔
"How China imposes sanctions — A guide to the evolution of Beijing’s new policy tool"
https://merics.org/en/report/how-china-imposes-sanctions「China has to date adopted unilateral sanctions that:
☭ came in response to perceived violations of its red lines and national interests,
☭ did not show any signs of any signs of adopting secondary sanctions,
☭ often came as a mix of official and unofficial measures (i.e., measures that are not officially announced and/or adopted by the central government).The last point makes China’s sanctions policy challenging to respond to. Not only is litigation complicated when non-official measures are adopted, they can also bolster official sanctions, while remaining plausibly deniable. China wants to create the perception that its punitive measures are difficult to predict, in order to discourage other countries’ from sanctioning.」
Unavoidably the paper uses the usual euphemisms wrt. the #neverelected CCP dictatorship. For instance "national interests" of the CCP regime are often diametrically opposed to the interests of its silenced and manipulated subjects, a.k.a "the people". CCP ≠ China
"...and you may ask yourself: 'How did we get here!?' "
#PRC #CCP #beijing #china #unitedfront #AxisOfDespots #appeasement #nixon #kissinger #MFN #WTO
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Good research by #MERICS on CCP's use of sanctions against its #democratic enemies.
The real fun bit comes at the very end: "Unofficial measures".
What this means of course is that because the CCP is a *#dictatorship*, they can really do whatever they want!
CCP's "law" is just a #legalistic facade, just like it was in #Nazi #ThirdReich where the Chinese "communists" in fact copied #legalism from. 🤔
"How China imposes sanctions — A guide to the evolution of Beijing’s new policy tool"
https://merics.org/en/report/how-china-imposes-sanctions「China has to date adopted unilateral sanctions that:
☭ came in response to perceived violations of its red lines and national interests,
☭ did not show any signs of any signs of adopting secondary sanctions,
☭ often came as a mix of official and unofficial measures (i.e., measures that are not officially announced and/or adopted by the central government).The last point makes China’s sanctions policy challenging to respond to. Not only is litigation complicated when non-official measures are adopted, they can also bolster official sanctions, while remaining plausibly deniable. China wants to create the perception that its punitive measures are difficult to predict, in order to discourage other countries’ from sanctioning.」
Unavoidably the paper uses the usual euphemisms wrt. the #neverelected CCP dictatorship. For instance "national interests" of the CCP regime are often diametrically opposed to the interests of its silenced and manipulated subjects, a.k.a "the people". CCP ≠ China
"...and you may ask yourself: 'How did we get here!?' "
#PRC #CCP #beijing #china #unitedfront #AxisOfDespots #appeasement #nixon #kissinger #MFN #WTO
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☝️「“Not even one day of detention of Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing could possibly be just. Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing’s treatment from the beginning to end at the hands of the police has been full of violations of Chinese law and procedural justice. It is the Chinese government who should be on trial for its behavior of unlawfully locking up its own citizens merely for the peaceful exercise of their human rights,” said Renee Xia, CHRD’s Director.」
#CHRD #HuangXueqin #WangJianbing #CCP #china #dictatorship #humanrights #legalism #lawfare
@davidonformosa -
☝️「“Not even one day of detention of Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing could possibly be just. Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing’s treatment from the beginning to end at the hands of the police has been full of violations of Chinese law and procedural justice. It is the Chinese government who should be on trial for its behavior of unlawfully locking up its own citizens merely for the peaceful exercise of their human rights,” said Renee Xia, CHRD’s Director.」
#CHRD #HuangXueqin #WangJianbing #CCP #china #dictatorship #humanrights #legalism #lawfare
@davidonformosa -
☝️「“Not even one day of detention of Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing could possibly be just. Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing’s treatment from the beginning to end at the hands of the police has been full of violations of Chinese law and procedural justice. It is the Chinese government who should be on trial for its behavior of unlawfully locking up its own citizens merely for the peaceful exercise of their human rights,” said Renee Xia, CHRD’s Director.」
#CHRD #HuangXueqin #WangJianbing #CCP #china #dictatorship #humanrights #legalism #lawfare
@davidonformosa -
☝️「“Not even one day of detention of Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing could possibly be just. Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing’s treatment from the beginning to end at the hands of the police has been full of violations of Chinese law and procedural justice. It is the Chinese government who should be on trial for its behavior of unlawfully locking up its own citizens merely for the peaceful exercise of their human rights,” said Renee Xia, CHRD’s Director.」
#CHRD #HuangXueqin #WangJianbing #CCP #china #dictatorship #humanrights #legalism #lawfare
@davidonformosa