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Why not? Congress is meant to be a check on the other branches of government (though the filibuster rule / partisan omnibus bill system has degraded its collect
by foolswisdom 1y ago
Why not? Congress is meant to be a check on the other branches of government (though the filibuster rule / partisan omnibus bill system has degraded its collective will, which is why they won't do anything), so pre-emptively removing the powers of congress from the list sounds like a power grab. It's not like it's something completely irrelevant. Same for the limitations of government listed there.
Besides, the thing about organizations is that they encourage behaviors. A big corporation encourages different behaviors than a startup, and different company cultures can also encourage / optimize for different things. There's also a reason why we do expect ultimate responsibility to rest with leaders.
- pavlov 1y agoOne can imagine the DOGE staffers high-fiving each other as they pushed this change. Maybe they didn’t find any meaningful waste with their random Python scripts, but at least they got to own the libs.
- Levitz 1y agoBecause this is a government website and not the actual constitution. It's absurd. This is just not how any of this works.
- ahmeneeroe-v2 1y agothis is like when groups say they "hacked the CIA"
- foolswisdom 1y agoPower is power when it is exercised, and power can be exercised when people think you have the power. Overly formalizing things and ignoring how they play out is why congress is today a dysfunctional body, for example. See also here for an example in practice https://prototypingpolitics.substack.com/p/dead-letter-live-practice-how-congress https://prototypingpolitics.substack.com/p/dead-letter-live-...
- RemainsOfTheDay 1y ago[flagged]