no you just had shit like people with (justified) geopolitical grievances against the US flying planes into towers. very dull.

bush literally stole an election with the supreme court. boring. ho hum

oh no the government might spend more money!? i guess we can’t do that then!! nevermind that the government is already spending this money and all im suggesting is redirecting that funding to a different related department to make public officials actually invested in maintaining a historically neglected program that serves mostly the poor.

you’re right, instead we should discourage people from filing civil suits entirely by making sure only people who can afford to pay the defendants’ lawyers fees will file them. that is a much better solution.

Yes, but if we changed the rules we could, for example, add funding to the office of the Public Defenders and they could hire a special lawyer for civil cases against public servants available to anyone who doesn’t wish to pay for their own laywers.

“We should change the way things work.” “Thats not how things work” great argument buddy, glad we could hash this out.

Yep that is an accurate description of the way the broken system currently works. Thanks!

If public defenders are good enough for everyone else, they’re good enough for politicians. Maybe they’ll actually get some funding and support that way.

I imagine China has very little patience when it comes to Japan, given their history.

non existent Linux when will the distro proliferation end

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People love it when outsiders comment on their country’s politics

She does politics. Go out there and demand his fucking resignation, declare of state of emergency and use those powers to remove him; make them stop you. Call for protests, call for strikes. Use your office and the reach that it grants you. The reason they have so much more power is because they understand that politics is now almost entirely theater and they are playing to the crowd while the democrats try to appeal to some imagined referee.

If the governor is completely powerless in the face of Trump then there’s no reason to even look into this because the law doesn’t matter. If the only reason you wont do it is because you’re concerned about retaliation from Trump then that will happen regardless of legal justification. So either you accept the consequences of action and take it, or let Trump continue to plow ahead full steam. There is no world in which the person looking for a legal basis to avoid Trump’s wrath will ever take action on anything that might provoke him, so this entire exercise is already political theater.

Where im going is that it doesn’t matter whether they have a legal basis to dismiss Adams or not. Trump will claim what they’re doing is illegal either way and act accordingly. Who is going to stop him?

If it’s all fucking theater anyway then make it a scene. Get arrested. Making them devote even a small amount of resources and attention on you is infinitely more valuable than just letting them get away with it again or resigning in worthless protest. Being a political prisoner for defying fascism is a hell of a lot more admirable than sending the national guard into the subway to harass commuters over some imagined crisis.

At some point, public officials have a responsibility to put their duty to public before their own safety and comfort. I get that its hard to oppose Trump, which is why the people most empowered to do so should be doing every single thing they can to stand in his way.

Do you honestly think having some legal justification would change anything about how Trump would respond?

meanwhile the republicans merely act and let the democrats whine about the illegality of their actions while continuing to plow ahead without any consequences.

also, your own code after you’ve spent time away from it.

Gotta keep up the churn so the wages you’ve depressed with imported servants let you hire back for cheaper.