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This is not normal. The next step on this path would be for Republicans to introduce some innocuous-sounding legislation... Perhaps something like "Act for th

• polotics 2y ago
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  • sam_lowry_ 2y ago
    I wouldn't have, but after your comment I did.
  • Terr_ 2y ago
    I considered leaving the link out, but then where would the educational value be? It would be just snark on its own, with an obscure reference unlikely to be caught by the people who most-need to know how another republic collapsed with a lot of similar factors going on. > Elizabeth Powel: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" > Benjamin Franklin: "A republic... if you can keep it."
  • osrec 2y ago
    It seems relevant though. You want to bring such things to people's attention before they start to gain momentum, not after.
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• Terr_ 2y ago
  P.S. To be more explicit, these provisions: > [§4] Officials whose previous political activities do not guarantee that they will always be fully committed to the national state may be dismissed from service. > [§7] Dismissal from office [...] shall be pronounced by the highest Reich or state authority, which shall make the final decision without recourse to the courts. And that's how the freshly-arrived executive guy started unilaterally firing people he felt were insufficiently servile to his agenda, ignoring prior checks-and-balances and without appeal.