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[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 months ago (6 children)

No it won't. They'll just make every case the worse possible way and wipe their hands clean of it.

They won't regret one moment of it. Maybe a small migraine but all 9 of the members agreed to have no oversight, no party can get enough to impeach any member of it, and they remain on it until they retire (why give up the ability to construct the entire government of 314 million?) or die in the seat.

Every single one of them just wants power, this gives them that. Welcome to fascism. We can't elect any of them, we can't remove any of them, and they get to state if someone is not bound by law or protected by it. And we're not even trying to pack the courts anymore.

[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Looks like the right to bear arms doesn't prevent tyranny after all. Huh, who'da thunk it?

[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Having all 9 of them dead would honestly be a band aid in having them just rip off the entire ground the Capitol is built on.

"The soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the ammo box. Use them in that order."

For legal reasons, I don't have the ability to do it, nor advocating someone to do it. It's as much as a wish as wanting Putin or Xi dead.

[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

As an Australian, the idea of clinging to the right to own weapons it's illegal to even suggest using is fucking hiliarious...

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