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by repelsteeltje 143 days ago
(I know these days it feels silly to bring this up, but...)

That is not how the separation of power is supposed to work. If a law is bad, politics (preferably a democratic process representing the people) replaces the law with a better one. Until the new law comes into effect, everyone is supposed to abide by the old law, even if it's bad.
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scotty79 143 days ago
Laws are created for lobbyist not people. Nothing works in the real world like in the text book democracy. Everything that was written about democracy is as naive as young adults fiction. But I find it refreshing that the real world events finally force more and more people to realize that.
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repelsteeltje 143 days ago
Yet you, like most of us, probably grew up in a democratic society (?) with a relatively high degree of freedom.

As they say: democracy may not exist, but we'll miss it when it's gone.

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scotty79 143 days ago
Not really. I grew up in a socialist (communist?) society. A form of democracy closer to ideal than whatever US is doing for the last 2 centuries or more arrived in my teen years. My personal freedoms were mostly unaffected. Most treasured freedom I acquired was the freedom to gtfo which I'm happily using right now.
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int_19h 141 days ago
Do you think this also applied to stuff like e.g. Fugitive Slave Laws?
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