Han jagades av ICE – såg Pretti skjutas
https://www.dn.se/varlden/han-jagades-av-ice-sag-pretti-skjutas/
#democracy vs #usfascism #fascism
#banalityofevil
#ICE_InstitionalizedCrueltyEnforcement
#BanalityOfEvil
RE: https://mastodon.nz/@AnnaMcM/115880519720659063
"These defenders - some of whom are our workmates, neighbours, even friends and family - aren't carrying out rules. Tyrants don’t even rely on rules anymore. Instead, the defenders are methodically, impassively, searching for rules to somehow justify the tyranny.
Evil's not banal anymore. It’s flaunting itself, smirking at us through a brazen 24/7 news cycle. It’s more like our banality is making the evil possible. "
The #BanalityOfEvil has evolved into #sponsoringevil a song at a time...
Eurovision used to be a campy joy – but it has become a cynical way to whitewash war Arwa Mahdawi
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/10/eurovision-campy-joy-now-cynical-way-whitewash-war
A quotation from Hannah Arendt
When I speak of the banality of evil, I do so only on the strictly factual level, pointing to a phenomenon which stared one in the face at the trial. Eichmann was not Iago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been farther from his mind than to determine with Richard III “to prove a villain.” Except for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all. And this diligence in itself was in no way criminal; he certainly would never have murdered his superior in order to inherit his post. He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Postscript (1963)
More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/80707/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #accountability #banalityofevil #consequences #crime #evil #evilperson #evildoer #Holocaust #intent #moralityplay #motivation #villain #willfulignorance
The imagery used by the US Department of Labour draws on fascist design patterns that are directly reminiscent of Nazi propaganda from the 1930s. Once again, there is no denying that there is no accounting for bad taste. Not only is there a lack of aesthetic education, but the basis of fascism remains an inexhaustible supply of uneducated stupidity and ignorance, especially in leadership positions.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-we-choose-to-nazi-department-of-labor-heroic-realism-doj-january-6th
#antifa #banalityOfEvil #democracy #fascism #labour #Tradeunion #uspol
A Anti-Far Right campaign by the British Trade Union Congress on the topic of the far right. Trade unions are among the few institutions that have the resources, campaign expertise and organisational reach to counteract the extreme right.
https://www.tuc.org.uk/antifarright
#activism #antifa #banalityOfEvil #Courage #democracy #Gewerkschaft #noauthoritarianism #strike #tradeUnion #uspol
A quotation from Hannah Arendt
What stuck in the minds of these men who had become murderers was simply the notion of being involved in something historic, grandiose, unique (“a great task that occurs once in two thousand years”), which must therefore be difficult to bear. This was important, because the murderers were not sadists or killers by nature; on the contrary, a systematic effort was made to weed out all those who derived physical pleasure from what they did. The troops of the Einsatzgruppen had been drafted from the Armed S.S., a military unit with hardly more crimes in its record than any ordinary unit of the German Army, and their commanders had been chosen by Heydrich from the S.S. élite with academic degrees. Hence the problem was how to overcome not so much their conscience as the animal pity by which all normal men are affected in the presence of physical suffering. The trick used by Himmler — who apparently was rather strongly afflicted by these instinctive reactions himself — was very simple and probably very effective; it consisted in turning these instincts around, as it were, in directing them toward the self. So that instead of saying: What horrible things I did to people!, the murderers would be able to say: What horrible things I had to watch in the pursuance of my duties, how heavily the task weighed upon my shoulders!
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, ch. 6 (1963)
More info about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/13940/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #banalityofevil #burden #difficulty #duty #genocide #Holocaust #killer #murder #murderer #persuasion #pity #selfcenteredness #selfdeception #selfpity #task #selfjustification
Der Schleswig-Holsteinische Landtag beschließt einstimmig:
AfD verfassungsrechtlich überprüfen lassen.
Drucksache 20/3694
20.Wahlperiode 8.Oktober 2025
Antrag der Fraktionen von CDU, BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN, SPD und SSW
Plenarprotokoll 20/99 15.10.2025
Beschl: Annahme (einstimmig)
https://e-lissh.landtag.ltsh.de/portal/vorgang/V-287240
#activsm #antifa #banalityOfEvil #democracy #noafd #SchleswigHolstein #AfDVerbotJetzt
Historical analogies: suppression and repression of the past for the present and undescribed future - remember!
#activsm #antifa #art #banalityOfEvil #civilcourage #crime #democracy #history #uspol
What all Germans know and many still want to suppress today:
>> 1933 Germany
Anyone who was not prepared to
resist the government was complicit
in the crimes.
2025 USA<<
#activsm #antifa #art #banalityOfEvil #civilcourage #crime #democracy #uspol
Für die globalen Big-Tech-Oligarchien sind deine Bürgerrechte und Daten ein Verkaufsmodell zum Ausverkauf an autoritäre Regime:
Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Broadcom, Cloudflare, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, usw. Die Stasi hätte von derartigen Möglichkeiten geträumt.
Wo steigst du wann aus?
Und wo steigt du ein?
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/16/google-facebook-subpoena-ice-students-gaza/
#activism #antifa #autonomy #banalityOfEvil #democracy #digitalSovereignty #digitalrights #EU-Digital #humanrights #totalitarianism #pivacy
#policeState
#tl;dr "The #BanalityOfEvil shows how #OrdinaryPeople through #Thoughtlessness and #Complacency become complicit in #UnimaginableCrimes. In #Gaza, this #ComplicityKills — silence and inaction fuel #Genocide." #StopTheGenocide 💚 ✊ 🔥
(3/3) Citation format example (MLA):
#ArendtHannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the #BanalityofEvil. New York: Viking Press, 1963.
"thats just the way it is",
until we do better and people look back going,
"damn they were really that stupid?"
"why would they put up with that?"
and historians get upset trying to contextualize.
"no, they were just as smart as we are, and this can happen to anyone"
#Democracy #RiseOfTheMiddleClass #Science #Medicine #BanalityOfEvil
If we’re not talking about the Epstein Files…. Thankfully John Ganz brings up Aristotle and the The Stavisky scandal in the Third Republic to put it all in context.
#BanalityOfEvil #Epstein #Epsteinfiles
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p/the-banality-of-jeffrey-epstein?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios
If you’re just going about your day without giving a second thought to the crimes against humanity committed by this administration, then, bad news: you’re part of the problem.
#BanalityOfEvil #Amerika #eightysix47 #resist #Ω #donotcomply #immigration
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/us/children-us-citizens-deported-honduras/index.html
Did we catch this? During the press availability in the Oval Office today, May 30, 2025, Elon Musk—on his "last day" as head of the fake "Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)"—appropriated Hannah Arendt’s phrase "the banality of evil" to describe routine government bureaucracy.
#ElonMusk #BanalityOfEvil #doge #HannahArendt #OvalOffice #DOGE #Bureaucracy #Orwellian #PoliticalLanguage#Gaslighting
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