without a difference

While technically distinguishable from theocracy, it’s largely a distinction without a difference.

Back then, that was a distinction without a difference: The root of the company’s financial problems was that FTX loaned gobs of customer money to an SBF-run hedge fund, which invested it in dubious coins that were tied to confidence in FTX’s business.

“It’s a distinction without a difference. It’s Nikki and Nancy,” Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita said to reporters Saturday night.

That is a distinction without a difference for the people killed, maimed and terrorized by the Israeli military — commanded by leaders who know perfectly well that the likely civilian death toll will be high.

That’s really a distinction without a difference, though.