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#appeasement

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Joseph Simons 🍁 🌱

From @alexhim.bsky.social

"#Appeasement never works – the more you feed that beast the bigger and hungrier it gets. And as Churchill warned, you can’t negotiate with a tiger while your head is in its mouth.

"I have spent the last decades lamenting what is wrong with #Canada, how much we need to #change. But I must confess there is something salutary about being reminded of what we have and what we stand to lose."

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Bluesky Social · alex himelfarb (@alexhim.bsky.social)A More Resilient Canada https://afhimelfarb.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/a-more-resilient-canada/
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

“It’s a #Vichy moment in American #history,” Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan University, told me... “Like I have a restaurant & if I #collaborate with the Nazis & don’t let any Jews eat here, then the guys who wash dishes will still have jobs. As you know, that slope is very slippery. #Appeasement doesn’t end well.”
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"when you engage in the #collaboration, you actually encourage them to do even worse stuff.”
prospect.org/blogs-and-newslet

Text from article: ROTH’S VICHY ANALOGY IS EXACT. In 1940, the French hoped to preserve part of “free France” by making a separate peace with the Nazis and setting up a puppet regime under Marshal Philippe Pétain based in Vichy, while the Germans occupied and ruled northern France. The arrangement lasted only until the Gestapo decided otherwise in 1942 and “free France” fell increasingly under direct Nazi rule. Preserving a Columbia that is partly free is the same sort of fantasy. The rest of Columbia is free only until Trump decides to escalate his demands and seize more territory. Wesleyan has the same kinds of federal funding streams at risk as larger universities: research grants from NIH and NSF, as well as Pell grants to students and the federal student loan program. I asked Roth if speaking out puts all of these at risk. “Of course, I think about that,” Roth said. “And then I think that’s the classic collaborationist dilemma, right? You know, you collaborate with authoritarians who you know are in the wrong, in order to keep them from doing worse stuff. And I think when you do that, when you engage in the collaboration, you actually encourage them to do even worse stuff.”
#Trump#GOP#Fascism
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jackcole

"There are persons, too, who see not the full extent of the evil which threatens them; they solace themselves with hopes that the enemy, if he succeed, will be merciful. It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice."

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

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