Nobody tell the US Supreme Court!

#legalism #textualism #dogma #superstition #taboos #formality #religiosity

A quotation from Bible:

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He spoke the following parable to some people who prided themselves on being virtuous and despised everyone else, “Two men went up to the Temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood there and said this prayer to himself, ‘I thank you, God, that I am not grasping, unjust, adulterous like the rest…
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/bible/35493/

#quote #quotes #quotation #arrogance #ego #humility #legalism #sin

re: How to talk about China?

@aristeon

#China and #Chinese people(s) — incl. the colonized peoples — have been harnessed by the parasitic #NeverElected #CCP #dictatorship to serve its paramount need to *stay in power*. That includes systematic eradication of their crimes from historical records and public debate while flooding the 'market' with synthetic propaganda.

Is the latter welcome? For several decades now the crimes against humanity part has been whitewashed with euphemisms as the CCP was elevated to the status of *normalized* business partner. All the while "biding time and hiding strength"; it's objective of defeating democracy and liberalism remaining at the heart of its planning.

After the legitimacy of *actual* communism failed, the CCP seamlessly morphed into a 19th century-inspired national-socialist dictatorship. It is no coincidence that the CCP adopted #legalism from #nazi #thirdreich as its new foundation; i.e. the excuse for its very dictatorship.

When talking about this new post-1989 CCP and its #HanSupremacist empire (in a sense a return to China's imperial roots), the key histocal comparisons should be made to #soviet #russian and the wannabe #nazigermany #imperialjapan empires, the former now under #putin fully re-animated and in "no limits" cahoots with the CCP...

So, "does mainstream discourse focus too much on the (expansionist Chinese dictatorship's) political system"?

Do we need more fluffy pandas, #tiktok flippancy, subsized exports and dancing natives from its colonies? The developing world is essentially a virgin territory for CCP's propaganda while even in the industrialized #democracies the historical understanding of military-expansionist #imperialism is evaporating.

@AmirAttaran

Being a non-Partystate-affiliated lawyer in a stalinist #dictatorship where *all* "law" is harnessed to perpetuate the one-party rule is not exactly a dream job for intelligent people.

You will still find some intrepid lawyers in #Chinese state facilities. Just not working on legal issues, but rather facing them. In indefinite detention.

#china #CCP #PRC #rulebylaw #legalism #humanrights

#Xi #Biden #Ukraine #ColdWar

Not sure what Xi's position is. This obscurity might be useful within #China - a kind of nod to #Legalism and 'imperial aloofness' - but it is just a weakness on the global stage.

Unless China is clear and explicit about aims it may blunder into problems unintentionally. Xi says right things but his actions contradict his words. He sounds like a liar. Untrustworthy.

Does Xi really want economic war or military war? I hope not as I love China and want peace.