Welp found the Adolf Eichmann of the Trump Admin

You make sure those cattle cars run on time, buddy.

I cannot get over this. They have a fucking Adolf Eichmann.

For those of you who don't know his whole deal, Adolf Eichmann was the primary bureaucrat/administrator behind the Holocaust. Overseeing supply chains, ensuring rail infrastructure was in place, collecting lists of Jews, etc.

He fled to Argentina after the war and, after a complex series of events, was found in the late 50s. The Mossad carried out an illegal extradition (which the Argentine government was, by all accounts, aware of and cool with), brought him to Jerusalem, put him on trial (you know, Hannah Arendt's whole thing, and the setting of my profile pic of Zivia) and he was hanged on June 1, 1962.

this... disturbs me way more than just donald trump. trump in power without logistics is just a talking head making threats. none of the large-scale evil in the world would be possible if it were just one guy at a time doing stuff.

evil needs people who will comply, but more than that, it needs people who will plan, and manage, and structure things. to keep timetables and ledgers. they need a whole chain of people who want to make these evil things happen.

so. todd lyons. may he accomplish nothing and make no name for himself.

keep each other safe. don't talk to ICE.

You are describing the very topic of Arendt’s work: the banality of evil.