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• swordgeek@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Laws are there for the riff raff, not the elite.

  This has been true for a very long time, but those in power generally didn’t abuse that fact too much. Until recently.

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  • DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I get what you’re saying, but who do you think they’re going to look up to now? It’s like Batman where penguin is the big head honcho, and now all the slimy underlings start to look up to him because he gets away with so much, and now everyone else wants to do the same thing because they think there’s no consequences except that we have no Batman

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Batman IS a billionaire 1% who is on the side of the cops. Batman isn’t of the people. He’s of the elite!

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    • octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Part of magas regression is the whole “alpha male” might makes right thing. The sad answer to your question is that’s where they are taking us. To a place where laws don’t matter, only who is strong enough to get their way. It’s been clear in the rightwing culture for years and years now.

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  • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The riff raff are the ones doing the work and that needs to change. Stop listening to trump and his cronies.

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not so publicly at least. The elite wouldn’t even be investigated.

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• Alteon@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  He’s pardoned his own citizen gestapo. No matter what they do, he can just pardon them. Even if the police arrest them, they can just get pardoned.

  White militia groups are now empowered to do whatever the fuck they want.

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• That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How can there be checks and balances if the executive branch of government can now override the judicial branch?

  Short answer: There can’t be any checks and balances, and that’s the point. The supreme court basically gave Trump cover to do anything and everything he wants so long as he claims it’s a part of his official duties. It doesn’t have to he true, he only has to claim it so.

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• joe@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t think you’ve fully realized what is going on. The message Trump is sending is “if you do my bidding, there will be no consequences”. The law is now a tool to protect those people Trump wants protected, and a weapon to hurt those Trump wants hurt.

  Classic fascism. Buckle up.

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• TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To keep everyone else in check. Just wait and see. Soon not clapping at a mandatory trump rally will be a felony.

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• Kitathalla@lemy.lol ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The point of laws is to enforce them.* Remember the old PSAs about forest fires? Go out and be the change you want to see in the world.

  * -against people the system doesn’t like

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Dude…L.A is already on fire, and you want us to make forest fires???

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• nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The laws exist for the same reason they always did, to stop us from acting like them.

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• LordGimp@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In the words of Brennan, laws are just threats made by the socioeconomic elite and enforced by the slave catcher class (police).

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