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by cmurf 2y ago
See neo-feudalism, mafia state, illiberalism, tyranny, and obeying in advance. What you're describing is the inevitable cost of corruption. It's not merely economic cost, it's the loss of freedom. In this case, freedom of ass
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Congress alone has the power of the purse per the Constitution. The idea the executive has absolute discretion to ignore statutes is absurd. You either support the Constitution and the republic. The unitary executive types, and most especia
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Is respecting the result of an election what Trump did for 3 months after he lost in 2020? Trump ordered Mike Pence to overturn that election. Is that respecting the result of an election? When Pence refused the order, Trump sent a mob to h
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That is the unproven unitary executive concept. It's true only insofar as Congress won't impeach and remove from office.
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Why would they be outraged? They're doing the job they were hired to do. This is what their constituency has wanted for many years and demanded: pure unadulterated unwavering unquestioned support for their emperor, and he is Trump. The
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This is inevitable. US attorneys are being given orders inconsistent with the law and DOJ rules. US attorneys are resigning instead, Democrat and Republican. Eventually the only people left are those willing to follow Trump's orders ra
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It's a variation on every despotic announcement ever. * I am the country. I am the law. * When the president does it, that means it's not illegal. * Anyone who opposes me is an enemy of the state. * People loyal to
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Pre-USSR, he sees himself as a Czar akin to one of the Greats, a resumption of the Russian Empire. Culture wide revanchism, it's not exclusive to Putin and will still occur without him.
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The ABA supports the rule of law(americanbar.org)
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John Arnold, Meta board, asked this question: https://bsky.app/profile/vermontgmg.bsky.social/post/3lhs632... --- My two cents. Congress has a singular enforcement mechanism: impeachment. If the Congress refu
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The Congress will not act before people are on the streets. And people won't be on the streets until Constitutional crisis and severe economic impact have fully developed.
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You replaced my word "abusers" with "Jew". Abusers should be kicked to the curb. Jews were not ever merely kicked to the curb during WW2, they were mass murdered. Your attempt to be treated as some sort of victim is deni
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I think it’s distinctly not funny people who voted for a rapist think they’re good people. Trump as POTUS ordered the VPOTUS to overturn an election, and when Mike Pence refused the order, Trump sent a mob to have the VPOTUS assassinated. I
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I originally posted the techdirt one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952967 and it was quickly flagged. The above link is from the source, Mike Brock's blog. There's no basis for flagging it other than find
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Twenty Four Hours(notesfromthecircus.com)
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The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk's Impossible Power Grab and America's Crisis(techdirt.com)
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But you don't care about immaturity. You voted for Trump. The guy who said he can "grab them by the pussy, they let you do it". It's just lockeroom talk. Right? The entire Republican chorus backed up this juvenile locker
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Trump lost the 2020 election and Trump's kooks didn't accept that. Instead they engaged in violence at the request of Trump, while he was still president, on the basis of Trump's election denialism. Peaceful transition also i
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Trump, Musk, the Speaker, and Fox News are running with both Vegas and New Orleans events being the result of open borders, despite both perpetrators being American citizens. Is it fair to say this kind of distortion is typical MAGA? Typica
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Both are American citizens. Trump, Speaker, Fox News all repeating this is due to open borders.
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Anarcho-capitalists are kooks. They're so emotionally attached to capitalism as an ideology, any criticisms or suggestions of its imperfection results in cognitive dissonance. They cannot have coherent conversations outside of a cult l
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Not a cartoon. He has manipulated the situation with the skill of a Romulan. We're on the road to a Principate. (Trump being a viceroy, and Musk being the emperor.) Perhaps counterintuitively Musk maybe should be made Speaker of the Ho
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Many people are confused. A free market needs regulation to maintain competition. Companies dislike competition because it lowers profits, and will do what they can to avoid competing on a level playing field. Like adding hidden fees.
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It's significant leverage for Trump to make Musk do or not do things. Trump intuitively knows he has this leverage now. To what degree Trump's feeble mind can take advantage? In a battle of wits and lies, who wins? They can't
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You're defending hidden fees? Free markets depend on information. Facts. Not lies.
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Meta (Facebook) has millions of instances of Btrfs in production. More than any other filesystem by far. A few years ago when Fedora desktop variants started using Btrfs by default, Meta’s experience showed it was no less reliable than ext4
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Talk to keto fans, even doctors, and they’ll tell you saturated fat is better. The problem is the combination of saturated fat with simple carbs. shrug Whenever I point out no cardiologists seem to agree on or recommend keto, these same p
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They do glide, in fact airliners have a glide ratio rivaling gliders, and substantially exceeds general aviation airplanes.

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