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It's the only way to resist. That, and vocally and vociferously insisting on the rule of law. Timely post.
by tomrod 2y ago
It's the only way to resist. That, and vocally and vociferously insisting on the rule of law. Timely post.
- bigdict 2y agoWhy is it timely?
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- onetokeoverthe 2y agobecause this is the time
- nickthegreek 2y agoGoogle and Apple just updated the name of an international body of water based on the demand of a single person throwing his weight around. No one asked for this change. It has no backing by locals. It wasn’t even a thing. This wasn’t a culture war issue, it’s a flexing of power by an old delusional man. AP has been the only corporate organization to stand up to this nonsense that I’ve seen. Not to mention the cdc scrubbing and such that judges are now overturning and demanding information returned to the public.
- tomrod 2y agoA great example of the many system abuses over the past several weeks. People did not vote for the Dark Enlightenment nor the Butterfly Revolution. Want to gut USAID? Work with Congress and pass a law. Want to strip Social Security? Samesies. That is the rule of law. If you are a representative of the people, you follow the law.
- throw0101d 2y ago> Want to gut USAID? Work with Congress and pass a law. Want to strip Social Security? Samesies. Heck, want to get rid of the useless penny (like we Canadians did years ago)? Change the law: * https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5111 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5111
- drekipus 2y ago[flagged]
- tomrod 2y agoThat is not how the US system is set up. If that is performed, then the word coup applies.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoOf all the wrong things Trump/Musk are doing , renaming the Gulf was arguably the most benign. But it does send a powerful signal of “I can do whatever the f I want”
- weaksauce 2y agoare you sure about that? it makes it so that he can approve drilling in the gulf because it's not named the same. or at least that's his idea to subvert biden's drilling ban... we'll see if it is the case.
- insane_dreamer 2y agointeresting; hadn't thought of that angle. but he could just do an EO to reverse the drilling ban, as he did with Alaska. I don't think he needs to rename the gulf of Mexico to accomplish that.
- JKCalhoun 2y agoAlso kind of sends a signal, "I am even pettier than you imagined." I ask again, where are the adults?
- intended 2y agoDead. Fox News+Republican Orwellian state on one side, media competition for attention on the other.
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- fknorangesite 2y agoDon't feign ignorance.
- UncleOxidant 2y agoI mean, I guess it's possible they've been really busy with other stuff and are just now looking at the internet after some kind of six-month death march at work. (but probably not likely)
- ModernMech 2y agolol it's like a reverse Rip Van Winkle -- goes to bed and wakes up as if the revolution against monarchy never happened.
- fknorangesite 2y ago> six-month ten-year
- tbrownaw 2y agoPlease state explicitly for the record why it's timely, in order that anyone who cares can compare that reason against the posting guidelines to decide how seriously to take it. . A bit wordier, but hopefully harder to denounce on the pretext that it's playing dumb.
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- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoWhat better place than here, what better time than now?
- ncr100 2y agoE.g. One could civilly request the local Republican City attorney to affirm some law, and immediately, in a protest fashion, compare that powerful directive to laws and orders being broken in Washington DC by those in power in the Federal government, defying recent federal judge orders to desist with the data theft/funding impounding.
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- tomrod 2y agohttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/us/politics/usaid-funding-trump-fact-check.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/us/politics/usaid-funding... https://archive.is/LxDse https://archive.is/LxDse
- gotoeleven 2y agoThese articles are a great list of things that we also shouldn't be spending our money on.
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- tehjoker 2y agoWell, if they are going against the legitimating power of the people, isn't it bloodless and unworkable to insist on "rules" against people who can break them at will (and have the loyalty of the army and police)? You have to insist on a more fundamental source of legitimacy, economic power, and wield a threat that cannot be easily defeated. Remember: these presidents are elected by about a quarter of the country if that, and the most recent election had a fall in turnout. Even if you base your entire theory of legitimacy in election results, the legitimacy of U.S. elections is looking worse and worse every season. The opposition didn't even have a primary lol
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- vhguru 2y agoLet the whataboutism begin in 3..2..1…
- throw0101d 2y ago> Like preventing illegal entry and crossing of borders and deporting illegal aliens? Or is that not rule of law? And in the process of enforcing this law ripping children from their parents and losing track of them so that reconnecting them with families was not possible? * http://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/trump-administration-family-separation-policy-immigration/670604/ http://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archi... * https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-a-trump-era-policy-that-separated-thousands-of-migrant-families-came-to-pass https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-a-trump-era-policy-tha... Besides enforcing the law, is cruelty one of Trump's stated policy goals? * http://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/ http://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/...
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- tomrod 2y agoAs I am not left wing, simply not Republican, I've never understood why Fox News and political provocatours needed to lie about the magnitude of the problems on the border during Biden's presidency, except and unless they wanted to create fear via propaganda. The economy was a much better angle. I value intellectual honesty. Edit: and to add, one thing that Fascists in Germany did was to turn their political rivals into boogeyman. Simultaneously weak and strong. Lacking morality. I guarantee you folks on the left have strong morals and standards. As do folks on the right. Assuming they don't or concluding they don't because they don't align to your preferences means that you, not them, are polarized. I use 'you' here in the royal sense, I don't know you from Peter or Paul. I only know what you said in your comment. Having lived in places where I was a stranger, I've found people generally want similar things, usually found on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
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- kouru225 2y agoI mean… it’s quite clearly not the only way to resist… Never once have I heard that WW2 was won by vocally and vociferously insisting on the rule of law
- tomrod 2y agoFiiiiiiiiiiiiine, you rightfully pointed out my linguistic imprecision :). Mea culpa. Another attempt, likely no better than before:outside of calling on the militia, prosecuting alleged fascists, or never voting them into power in the first place by enshrining education, media transparency, and banning dark money, it's a great option.
- chasing 2y agoFrom a certain perspective Allied warfare was simply a extremely vociferous insistence on the rule of law. That aside, an argument could be made that if the rule of law had been more forcefully adhered to in their early days, Hitler and the Nazi Party could have been stopped before the gears of war had started to turn.
- tomrod 2y agoI love this. Great perspective.
- tdeck 2y agoMussolini was famously turned upside down by one such tirade.
- penguin_booze 2y ago> vociferously insisting on the rule of law Don't forget that laws are (hu)man-made. Laws reflect the kind of people that make the law. Certain kind of people can make certain kind of laws. At that point, rule of law would appear indistinguishable from lack thereof.
- tomrod 2y agoRule of law in the United States refers to the separation of powers, and the courts are not to be ignored. For a broader definition: > The rule of law is a political and legal ideal that all people and institutions within a country, state, or community are accountable to the same laws, including lawmakers, government officials, and judges. It is sometimes stated simply as "no one is above the law" or "all are equal before the law". According to Encyclopædia Britannica, it is defined as "the mechanism, process, institution, practice, or norm that supports the equality of all citizens before the law, secures a nonarbitrary form of government, and more generally prevents the arbitrary use of power."[0] Regardless what the laws enacted are, ensuring no one is above them (a president or an entire branch of the US Federal government, say) is a cornerstone of US civil life. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law
- suraci 2y ago"As all the driving forces of the actions of any individual person must pass through his brain, and transform themselves into motives of his will in order to set him into action, so also all the needs of civil society — no matter which class happens to be the ruling one — must pass through the will of the state in order to secure general validity in the form of laws. " - Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy