• Dem Bosain
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    2310 hours ago

    Vance is right. There are no consequences, so everything is allowed.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 hour ago

      Possible consequences (copied from Russia, 1993):

      • tanks fire at parliament, speaker of parliament urges air force to bomb the Kremlin (they didn’t)
      • subsequently, the president gets powers resembling a monarch, and installs the next president, who evolves into a president-for-life

      How to avoid -> most likely, refusal of all agencies to follow an order that a court has struck down. But for this to work, mass replacement of public officials with loyalists must be prevented.

    • Flying Squid
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      139 hours ago

      Nothing is true; everything is permitted.

      – Reputed last words of Hasan-i Sabbah, founder of the Order of Assassins.

      Yes, they do use that phrase in the Assassin’s Creed games, but that’s not really relevant here.

    • @kn33
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      37 hours ago

      Well, it depends. If everyone does what Trump says instead of what the court says then that’s true. If the people who actually do the work do what the court says, then that’s not true.