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He's being sardonic. Assad, Putin, Lukashenko, Modi, Bolsonaro, Duterte...they all use pseudo-legalistic justifications for authoritarian action. Assad in parti

He's being sardonic. Assad, Putin, Lukashenko, Modi, Bolsonaro, Duterte...they all use pseudo-legalistic justifications for authoritarian action. Assad in particular went as far as cataloging thousands of his torture victims to give an official veneer to the circumstances of their death. This is even though it seems insane to record evidence of one's own gruesome crimes of genocide. https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/12/16/if-dead-could-speak/mass-deaths-and-torture-syrias-detention-facilities https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/12/16/if-dead-could-speak/ma...

beepboopbeep 6y ago
>Assad, Putin, Lukashenko, Modi, Bolsonaro, Duterte, Trump...they all use pseudo-legalistic justifications for authoritarian action
- MichaelApproved 6y ago
  You’re getting down voted for including Trump but his recent use of Federal officers to police the streets of Portland and his attempts to delay the November vote show he is in the same category.
- m0zg 6y ago
  Except of course in the real world Trump resisted using federal forces until rioters started attacking federal property and Portland decided to let it burn. Can we here concede that burning a federal courthouse is not OK? He's still not using the federal forces: don't interfere when your opponent is making a mistake. The rioters and "police defunders" are making an amazingly powerful case for his re-election.
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