Timothy Snyder: As for many other things there is a German word for this, which is Fuhrerprinzip.

[highplainsdem]

As for many other things there is a German word for this, which is Führerprinzip.

— Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) 2025-05-25T20:05:09.432Z

[Dave Bowman]

1. I prefer to call him Dingdongfuhrer.

[highplainsdem]

2. I like that! Btw, DU's thread and reply titles disappear any letters with accents marks. like a U with an umlaut.

A word like Dingdongführer will show up properly in the rest of the message. But you have to omit the accent marks in the titles.

And I probably should have written Fuehrerprinzip in the thread title.

[Dave Bowman]

3. Yes, I had to edit my post a few times because of the accent mark. 🙂

[DavidDvorkin]

4. More specifically, it was a word coined by the Nazis.