{"id":47227,"date":"2022-03-20T11:10:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T18:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=47227"},"modified":"2022-03-20T14:37:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T21:37:38","slug":"everyday-erinyes-310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/03\/20\/everyday-erinyes-310\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Erinyes #310"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts in autocracies have pointed out that it is, unfortunately, easy to slip into normalizing the tyrant, hence it is important to hang on to outrage. These incidents which seem to call for the efforts of the Greek Furies (Erinyes) to come and deal with them will, I hope, help with that. As a reminder, though no one really knows how many there were supposed to be, the three names we have are <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Alecto<\/span><\/strong>, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Megaera<\/strong><\/span>, and <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Tisiphone<\/strong><\/span>. These roughly translate as &#8220;unceasing,&#8221; &#8220;grudging,&#8221; and &#8220;vengeful destruction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today, however, the furies and I are taking a day off, in a way.\u00a0 We are just going to share with youa document which is making the rounds of Twitter and to some extent elsewhere.\u00a0 It is &#8211; correction, it was &#8211; a leter from Putin to the UN&gt;\u00a0 It is now a &#8220;There.\u00a0 Fixed it for ya&#8221; from the Canadian mission to the UN\u00a0 I don;t think any further comment is required (though I will add &#8220;Oh!\u00a0 Canada!\u00a0 Excellent!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/p.-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/p.-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/p.-1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/p.-1-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/p.-1-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/p.-1-768x995.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/p.2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/p.2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/p.2-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/p.2-794x1024.jpg 794w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/p.2-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/p.2-768x991.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>The Furies and I will be back)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts in autocracies have pointed out that it is, unfortunately, easy to slip into normalizing the tyrant, hence it is important to hang on to outrage. These incidents which seem to call for the efforts of the Greek Furies (Erinyes) to come and deal with them will, I hope, help with that. As a reminder, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/03\/20\/everyday-erinyes-310\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4117,3729,3838,3805],"class_list":["post-47227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-canada","tag-furies","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}