"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."
β Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."
β Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
βThe ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the between true and false no longer exist.β
Hannah Arendt, the Origins of Totalitarianism
While there is a lot of talk about a "crisis of peacekeeping" @fortid1.bsky.social and I argue @crisisgroup.org that the debate about the future of UN peace ops is starting to get a little more positive and constructive.
www.crisisgroup.org/global/fresh...
Refugees welcome.
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Human Rights Watch is on Bluesky!
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UN Humanitarians, by @andymucino.bsky.social go.bsky.app/BF9SnQV
Preparing from #Trump at the #UnitedNations.
ny.fes.de/article/un-n...
A cool little trick to find accounts you were following on X
lifehacker.com/tech/use-thi...
This is a work in progress - yell at me if I've left anyone cool off it, especially if that person is you (yes, you - you are cool).
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A gentle reminder!
18M user count
18M! And @theo.ioβs user tracker threw up confetti! π
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