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They will be indispensable for documenting, for historians, what it was like when the United States still had law.

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We don’t need historians. We need people who are willing to risk their career to put up a fight. Documenting is just a word for being a bystander and let it happen.

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You need both.

You need people to fight now, and people to document the shit out of this to cut through as much propaganda as possible for the future.

The current regime has already started to rewrite history, documenting the truth is putting up a fight!

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The Palantir threat model specifically says only a fringe will put up a fight right now.

There’s a projected line in the sand where people stand up, but so long as you stay on one side, you’re safe, and the scary thing is, you can push that line and it will move.

The plan is to be super aggressive now to move the line, then 12 months from now to act all domestic abuser who regrets it and love bombing to cancel out most of the anger before the midterms.

In their defense, this is exactly how Reagan did it and it worked.

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If they also aren’t “discarded.”

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I look forward all of this scholars writing “Rule-of-Law” fanfiction where the protagonists and antagonists live and interact in a society with a system of mostly reasonable laws and law enforcement. Definitely now categorized as Speculative Fiction.

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Not everyone will be dead, because the villain himself lives and when he breaks the honor code he will be ashamed of himself for his hole life, always haunted by the memories of his disgrace and his lack of honor. Or any other bullshit explanation like that…

Yeah, the evil villain should be evil and ignore all the honor code rules.

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Something serious is being implied here… Not sure what to make of it tho🤔

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That the concept of three branches of government keeping each other in check fails miserably when one branch has no way to constrain the other, or willingly abdicates their responsibility.

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Ive been wondering what the difference is between an executive that ignores court orders and acts counter to congressional laws and martial law.

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Martial law generally has legal mechanisms in place to provide some limitations to duration etc.

In other words, it would be an improvement over what is currently happening.

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Amount of police/national guard troops, maybe?

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Those among them lacking in morals would make bank (or influence, whatever is afforded to them) justifying that government’s actions according to US constitutional law.

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