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1. bs2 (bsmall2@mstdn.jp)'s status on Friday, 04-Mar-2022 00:45:06 UTC bs2

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   • Strypey
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

   @clacke @strypey '...governments.. openly opposed to this encroachment on their sovereignty, but the concerned nationalities themselves did not recognize a nonnational guarantee, mistrusted everything which was not clear-cut support of their “national” (as opposed to their mere “linguistic, religious, and ethnic”) rights, and preferred either.. to turn to the protection of the “national” mother country, or, like the Jews, to some kind of interterritorial solidarity.'

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   • bs2 (bsmall2@mstdn.jp)'s status on Friday, 04-Mar-2022 00:45:07 UTC bs2

     • Strypey
     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke @strypey "The Rights of Man, after all, had been defined as “inalienable” because they were supposed to be independent of all governments; but it turned out that the moment human beings lacked their own government and had to fall back upon their minimum rights, no authority was left to protect them.. ' #Hannah Arendt 's #Imperialism book