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“Instead of respecting the law, those in power invoke it when it serves their interests and disregard it when it restrains them, treating even justice itself as though it were a commodity to be bought and sold.” — Pope Leo XIV
Ms. Rachel blasts Republican Christian hypocrisy: “Let’s be a more Christian nation and take away SNAP benefits. Let’s be a more Christian nation and put our neighbors and put the strangers in detention centers. Let’s make more and more money and not help others and let’s deny people’s healthcare. But the SNAP thing, that just breaks me. You’re gonna complain about a child having enough food?”
Much gets made out of Nazi occupation of countries like Poland for the human rights abuses they committed there, and I’m not going to downplay that reality. But we often forget that most of Eastern Europe that was under Soviet occupation welcomed the Germans as liberators.
Soviet rule was so horrific that they would rather live under national socialism than communism. That ought to make us reflect on the simplistic post-war morality that would have us believe that the Allies were pure good and the Axis were pure evil. As with most conflicts in history, things were far more nuanced.