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throw0101c 42 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. national-security leaders included me in a gr...

> there's too much preemptive obeying for my taste.

From historian Timothy Snyder's book On Tyranny, chapter/lesson number one:

> Do not obey in advance.

* https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/558051/on-tyranny-by...

* https://timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny/

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