• Hubi@feddit.org
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    21 hours ago

    Is it really treason if it’s in line with what the government is doing?

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      21 hours ago

      It is if the government is also treasonous. Is it possible to charge an administration for treason? Perhaps we’ll see soon. Probably not, though.

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        15 hours ago

        You sort of have to go down the line person by person, but yes (assuming we still had a functional 3 branch government). Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution:

        The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

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        12 hours ago

        It’s not like US elections weren’t rigged by massive campaign spending before. This is literally how the system is set up and worked for decades before. Musk just did it “right” by buying the biggest media platform of the time. People literally laughed at the massive financial loss he made with Twitter… then the government changed. Some still don’t get what Musk did there.

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          12 hours ago

          People being uninformed mixed with misinformed will be the death of this species

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            11 hours ago

            People were always uninformed and greed rules the world since at least ten centuries. We literally had leaded gasoline and chemicals killing the ozone layer.
            But we also got MAD figured out - probably the biggest achievement in human existence. And we banned leaded gasoline and the ozone layer killer chemicals. We solved acid rain too.
            I think, our species is actually progressing positively right now - even though it may not always look like that.

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              11 hours ago

              I hope you’re right, I’m tired of drowning in division and idiocy.