• StarkWolf [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    6 days ago

    Ah, glad to find out the executive order “lacks the force of law”, which means that none of his other executive orders have been enacted or enforced in any way either… Wait, what’s this? They have? Oh. Oh… Well then.

    • Des [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      people just don’t realize they are basically marching orders to his private army. they can just execute the orders with guns and shit. arrest state regulators. even if the courts get them out of it the process is the punishment

      • SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        I read somewhere in a book about the third Reich how, during the early days of Nazi rule, confused liberal lawyers and bureaucrats would be completely perplexed about what was happening and would to things like knocking on the door of concentration camps to to say things like “But you can’t lock so and so up. That’s illegal!”, only to be told by guards to fuck off.

        Their insistence on liberal niceties was completely inconsequential, of course.

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        A lot of them will just fall in line if their comfortable lives are threatened enough. Much like Ukraine.