@codinghorror I was on a walk just now and was pondering what we could get if we spent ICE's budget on teaching and education.

@inthehands Totalitarian leaders never derive their power from facts. According to Hannah Arendt, the facts are a problem to be solved with propaganda, conspiracy theories, and terror. What's true is whatever the leader says is true, and may change from day to day. Fortunately for leader, his followers profess an odd mix of gullibility and cynicism, making it possible for him to make contradictory statements and not lose his power.

https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/-gullibility-and-cynicism-2022-01-09

@inthehands I'm not sure how many people are aware that even the much-feared SS was not an elite highly-trained military force. They were rather mediocre on the battlefield compared to the actual armed forces. What they were feared for was not their skill at warfare, but for what they did to the defeated and occupied peoples after the fighting was over.

@afewbugs Goodness, here's an issue from 2018 that *still open* https://github.com/nextcloud/deck/issues/480