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Doug Bamford
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Teach adults - sign up! Political Philosophy, justice and taxation. Author of Rethinking Taxation (2014). Also interested in leisure/work, climate change ethics, public policy.
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this Arendt quote gets at it too www.unpopularfront.news/p/yeah-what-...
…what disturbed us was the behavior not of our enemies but of our friends, who had done nothing to bring this situation about. They were not responsible for the Nazis, they were only impressed by the Nazi success and unable to pit their own judgment against the verdict of History, as they read it. Without taking into account the almost universal breakdown, not of personal responsibility, but of personal judgment in the early stages of the Nazi regime, it is impossible to understand what actually happened. It is true that many of these people were quickly disenchanted, and it is well known that most of the men of July 20, 1944, who paid with their lives for their conspiracy against Hitler, had been connected with the regime at some time or other. Still, I think this early moral disintegration in German society, hardly perceptible to the outsider, was like a kind of dress rehearsal for its total breakdown, which was to occur during the war years.
December 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Denying climate change doesn't make it go away.
November 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Is it Woke™ to be against cold-blooded murder?
November 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM