brandon

  • Hohsia [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    90·
    3 days ago

    Real talk though, how is the ability to pardon anyone and everyone not the most “authoritarian” citations-needed action a president can take

    But we have democracy!!!

    Death to America

    • ChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      45·
      3 days ago

      I mean in genealogy of morals Nietzsche makes it clear mercy is the mark of power

      This self-overcoming of justice: one knows the beautiful name it has given itself – mercy; it goes without saying that mercy remains the privilege of the most powerful man, or better, his – beyond the law.

      It’s literally the dialectical self overcoming of justice (sich selbstaufhebung).