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The whole article is concerning. Somehow there is no protection from this. The government can attack and threaten people?
by tayo42 2y ago
The whole article is concerning. Somehow there is no protection from this. The government can attack and threaten people?
- bell-cot 2y ago"The government" is a bunch of humans. If those humans do bad things, then no "I can't believe they would _____" indignation by outsiders, nor intervention by (say) Santa Claus, will somehow magically stop them.
- piloto_ciego 2y agoExactly this; nobody will save us but ourselves.
- jmye 2y agoThe government can do (literally) whatever a majority of voters are willing to encourage and/or accept. In this case, this is precisely what Trump voters wanted, and what every non-voter said they were ok with.
- rsynnott 2y agoNo it can’t; there are rules, and there are the courts. However, in the US, the courts are at this point compromised to some extent, too.
- kccoder 2y agoThe protection against this was to not vote him back into office. We’ve done something very, very stupid, and many will suffer.