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These is a timer to substantively act and it's soon coming up. Right now the government is avoiding truly unpopular unjustifiable policy while it is purging th

These is a timer to substantively act and it's soon coming up. Right now the government is avoiding truly unpopular unjustifiable policy while it is purging the old government and placing loyalists into positions of power, something anyone would recognize as a coup if it happened in a foreign country. The administration is mildly bound by law so long as they don't do anything to provoke into action those who took an oath to protect this country from enemies foreign and domestic and to act in service to the constitution... but once people in positions of enforcement are replaced by loyalists, the constitution truly becomes just a piece of paper. Laws and ideals are just words on paper. It is the enforcement mechanisms which turn those ideas represented on paper into something that interacts and molds physical reality.

goatlover 2y ago
But people here would rather flag these posts than recognize the threat.
- watwut 2y ago
  They recognize it, they just dont see it as a threat. They want it to happen. It is a feature. Their hope is that power abuses will go against left, democrats, trans, non conforming women and so on and so forth. And that no election ever will be able to change that anymore.
  - jauntywundrkind 2y ago
    And suppression of curiosity and engagement counts for infinity on HN, and all the interest in the world has no leverage, by the moderation system's rules.
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- belter 2y ago
  The director of the NSA, who has an illustrious military and completely apolitical career of 30 years, has just been fired. According to those flagging, there is nothing here for curious minds to dissect :-)
- kjreact 2y ago
  People on HN have too much to lose. Who is willing to put their personal wealth and livelihood at risk to protest? We are witnessing the fall of democracy and the middle class will stand aside and let it happen.
belter 2y ago
> It is the enforcement mechanisms which turn those ideas represented on paper into something that interacts and molds physical reality. There’s a speech from Reagan, where he reflects on the constitutions of Soviet republics. He notes that, on paper, they all affirm human rights and the dignity of the individual. But in the end, it’s not the words that matter, it’s the people, and whether they choose to uphold or ignore those principles. “I've read a number of constitutions of other countries, including that of the Soviet Union, and was astonished to find guarantee of freedom of expression and assembly and so forth in all of those. And you find yourself thinking, well, then, what makes ours so different? Why does ours work the way it does? And the answer is so simple that it almost escapes you. And yet it is so great that it explains the whole difference: three words -- 'We the People'.” - Ronald Reagan - September 10, 1987 - Remarks to the Winners of the Bicentennial of the Constitution Essay Competition
- hayst4ck 2y ago
  Ironic that he laid the foundation for the end of American constitutionalism and that so many of those who venerate him today are the same people who voted for this "soviet" like crisis we are experiencing now.

goatlover 2y ago

But people here would rather flag these posts than recognize the threat.

watwut 2y ago
They recognize it, they just dont see it as a threat. They want it to happen. It is a feature. Their hope is that power abuses will go against left, democrats, trans, non conforming women and so on and so forth. And that no election ever will be able to change that anymore.
- jauntywundrkind 2y ago
  And suppression of curiosity and engagement counts for infinity on HN, and all the interest in the world has no leverage, by the moderation system's rules.
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belter 2y ago
The director of the NSA, who has an illustrious military and completely apolitical career of 30 years, has just been fired. According to those flagging, there is nothing here for curious minds to dissect :-)
kjreact 2y ago
People on HN have too much to lose. Who is willing to put their personal wealth and livelihood at risk to protest? We are witnessing the fall of democracy and the middle class will stand aside and let it happen.

belter 2y ago

> It is the enforcement mechanisms which turn those ideas represented on paper into something that interacts and molds physical reality. There’s a speech from Reagan, where he reflects on the constitutions of Soviet republics. He notes that, on paper, they all affirm human rights and the dignity of the individual. But in the end, it’s not the words that matter, it’s the people, and whether they choose to uphold or ignore those principles. “I've read a number of constitutions of other countries, including that of the Soviet Union, and was astonished to find guarantee of freedom of expression and assembly and so forth in all of those. And you find yourself thinking, well, then, what makes ours so different? Why does ours work the way it does? And the answer is so simple that it almost escapes you. And yet it is so great that it explains the whole difference: three words -- 'We the People'.” - Ronald Reagan - September 10, 1987 - Remarks to the Winners of the Bicentennial of the Constitution Essay Competition

hayst4ck 2y ago
Ironic that he laid the foundation for the end of American constitutionalism and that so many of those who venerate him today are the same people who voted for this "soviet" like crisis we are experiencing now.