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Written by David August on 2025-01-20 at 19:25

"But the Constitution says he can't do that!"

I know, he knows. That's why he is trying.

Unitary executive theory (advanced by project 2025): make potus able to rule through decrees. The Enabling Act in Germany in 1933 did this, lead directly to deaths of ~50 million and burning 2 continents down.

Technically German constitution from 1919 was “in effect” until 1949. Enabling Act made constitution de jure only (by law, not practice); it was technically there the whole time.

History can rhyme.

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Written by Henryk Plötz on 2025-01-21 at 11:12

@davidaugust "Unitary Executive Theory"?

We just call it "Führerprinzip", much shorter. Though, I guess, a little harder to type for Americans.

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Written by David August on 2025-01-21 at 16:48

@henryk ah. Somehow makes sense German would have a single word for this.

I get a machine translation of that as “leadership principle.” Does it mean that in German, or is it closer to the American unitary executive theory?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory

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Written by Henryk Plötz on 2025-01-21 at 16:55

@davidaugust Yes, it's extremely singular and narrow in its meaning, because "Führer" on its own, in contemporary German almost exclusively means Adolf Hitler: The Führer.

(Technically a Führer could also be a museum guide or a crane operator, but that's always clear from context.)

The Führerprinzip was one of the core principles of the Nazi party: The sole and unitary power of The Führer above all and everything.

(And then applied recursively, each subdivision having its local leader.)

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Written by David August on 2025-01-21 at 16:58

@henryk that makes sense.

Through the events of WW2 it seems Germany has a sounder understanding of this sort of centralization of power and what it truly, unavoidably, means.

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Toot

Written by Henryk Plötz on 2025-01-21 at 17:07

@davidaugust Just to demonstrate the kind of prescience you can expect: This is what our "The Onion"-equivalent had four weeks ago: https://www.der-postillon.com/2024/12/musk-sprung.html ;-)

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Descendants

Written by David August on 2025-01-21 at 17:14

@henryk oh that is great, inspired satire. Thank you for sharing this with me.

I do some writing for a sketch comedy show that covers the week’s news, and coming up with good premises for satire, and then executing them as well as they have here is impressive; it is not easy.

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Written by scorpionic maelstrom ☕️ ♏️ on 2025-01-21 at 22:23

@henryk @davidaugust ..."Wie lange Musk an dieser neuen Choreografie festhalten wird, bleibt abzuwarten. Insidern zufolge bereitet er bereits eine vereinfachte Variante des Sprungs für Kurzauftritte vor, bei der lediglich der rechte Arm gehoben wird." wow, that prediction was right on target...

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