• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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      11 days ago

      Those “fancy steps” are the only things that would make this legal. Without them, all he’s doing is violating the Constitution. DC presents a unique loophole for this. Anywhere else, and he’s breaking the law.

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        11 days ago

        He’s breaking the law all over the US, when you’re rich… they let you. This is no different. Let’s see some consequences somewhere.

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          11 days ago

          No one is “letting him”. There are dozens of active cases against him and his administration, right now. The process takes time, and the media never covers it adequately…but the system is still working.

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            11 days ago

            That’s entirely the point. Legal channels are too show to counteract everything at once. See Bannon’s “stress test”.

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              11 days ago

              Dude. That’s literally the same argument Trump was using for why he should be allowed to just deport people without due process. This is not the “solution” you think it is.

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                  No, I’m saying that the basic principles of law and justice shouldn’t be abandoned just because there are people in the world who try and game the system.

                  It seems like everyone these days, agrees with Trump’s vision of what the law should look like. My side gets a pass…and everyone I think is “bad”, gets their rights taken away. People just seem to disagree about who should be punished without due process.

                  It’s not a “moral high ground” issue. It’s basic common sense. You want a legal system that’s based on facts? You want people’s rights to be respected? You can’t have those things, if you throw them all out the window anytime things don’t work out exactly the way you want them to.

                  Those are the things you have to fight to protect. If every law that got broken, meant the law was pointless…then we would have no laws.

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                    10 days ago

                    It seems like everyone these days, agrees with Trump’s vision of what the law should look like. My side gets a pass…and everyone I think is “bad”, gets their rights taken away.

                    This is not what’s happening here. Nobody (on the left) is giving any side a “pass”. What the fuck is this strawman?

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        11 days ago

        It doesn’t fucking matter. He’ll do it all anyway, without ever declaring martial law. And what the fuck is anyone going to do about it?

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            11 days ago

            It means even less, if your first impulse is to toss it all out the window as soon as it’s no longer convenient for you to follow it.

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              “Yes, the current system is slow and ineffective, and has done nothing to prevent the incarceration and deportation of innocent people, misappropriation of funds, and misuse of the military, but to demand anything else would be going against the ineffective system!”

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                So, because people are currently being denied the right to due process…due process itself, doesn’t work?

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                  8 days ago

                  The current process of Due Process is allowing blatantly illegal activities to continue unhindered because “we need to give them time to comply even when they are clearly not going to.” You need a different process, and pointing out that the system is not working is perfectly valid.