Had someone unironically suggest that if Trump takes a third term that it would open the way for Obama to run again.
Anyone citing the old order of rules, laws, and fairness is delusional or under informed.
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Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Oh you misunderstand, he knows the law well. He just knows how to use it as a tool to protect the elites from accountability and as a bludgeon to punish the people for non-compliance, as well as how to make sure that never gets flipped.
laranis@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Well, that is how the laws where designed.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
This is such a childish thing to say, my god…
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
What he said has nothing to do with law. He just said stuff knowing that nobody will do anything to stop him. Or to stop them.
The law is extremely clear in this regard - the ICE dude murdered a person for no reason. The rules on the use of deadly force literally use a moving car as an example of when not to use deadly force - as long as there are “other defence options, such as moving out of the way”.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
When the people tasked with upholding the law consistently disregard it in particular circumstances - as they do when it comes to abuse of power by law enforcement - that law only exists in the circumstances in which it is consistently applied. Things like qualified immunity have effectively nullified any law that ostensibly holds law enforcement accountable. The law does not exist for any other purpose except to protect the dominant socioeconomic group in a given country without binding them, while binding the subjugated socioeconomic group without protecting them. Who is in which group is dynamic and always subject to change, but this rule almost always holds except in cases where very skilled lawyers are able to argue in court that someone in the latter group actually belongs to the former in some specific circumstance. That is the law being used for something that it was not designed to do, a bit like an exploit in a video game soon to be patched.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
“In any given fundamentally broken country”, you mean?
The law absolutely does exist for other purposes. Otherwise we wouldn’t have as robust anti money laundering laws, child protection laws, rape laws, human rights laws, etc., etc.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
All those laws are only enforced against disfavored groups.
Rich people got to engage in all the Epstein stuff and are all still free.
Elon can create an industrial child porn machine and all the governments are totally unbothered.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
All of those laws are unequally enforced. Anti money laundering laws are applied only to the subjugated socioeconomic group (drug dealers belonging to the working class, etc.). The dominant socioeconomic group gets their children protected, their rape victims to receive justice, their human rights defended. The subjugated socioeconomic group rarely benefits from these laws, which is why thousands of rape kits sit in warehouses never being investigated, why children born into poverty are more often separated from their parents and institutionalized rather than receiving the help they need, and why human rights are routinely violated without consequence.
The people making such laws can sometimes intend for them to be universal, but such people fundamentally misunderstand the nature of laws, and it never quite pans out that way in practice.
Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
correct. this is a man that admitted openly to lying about immigrants eating pets to foment hatred to fire up his voter base that already hates immigrants.