The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.
All she had to do was release them.
It took a literal Act of Congress to get maybe half the files and they were so heavily redacted as to be near useless.
In my opinion she’s either been ordered not to release them or she herself is in them; there’s no other explanations for ignoring the massive amount of pressure she’s been under.
No one gives a shit who the Trump Administration chooses as a scapegoat; we’re all interested in just two things:
That’s it and that’s all. The rest of this is just noise intended to keep people distracted.
I think my main focus would be to end the two-party system by switching Congress to proportional representation.
If I understand your comment correctly what you are describing is how Congress was originally setup! It was broken by the Re-Apportionment Act of 1912. No need to re-write the Constitution it’s “just” a Federal Law.
a drastic reduction of presidential power is an obvious step
The President only has as much power as they do because Congress has been steadily handing it over since the 1940s.
perhaps have both a president and a prime minister like many European countries do
We weren’t far away from the spirit of that but we broke it in 1804 with the passage of the 12th Amendment.
The Supreme Court needs reform…
It’s really not SCOTUS that needs reformed it’s actually our Constitution. It was simply never meant for the environment in which it now exists, it’s unfit for purpose. The easiest way to explain is that the US Constitution wasn’t meant to control an all powerful central authority, it was meant to prevent one. SCOTUS twisted that shortly after the Civil War and now here we are trying to manage ourselves by looking at a mirror reflection of our guiding document.
Stupid.
Maybe we can get more people on the Fediverse
Once there’s enough people on the Fediverse it will get noticed by the Authorities and when that happens you’ll see instances start shutting down as they are unwilling, or unable, to comply with the Age Verification and Social Media laws that are being passed all over the globe.
I’m somewhat surprised that the NSFW instances haven’t already been hit by the Age Verification laws that many US States have but as soon as a single state, say Utah, notices the rest of them will pile on and the Fediverse will start to unravel.
This isn’t just a US problem either, there’s Age Verification and Social Media laws being proposed or already in effect in many Western Nations. Hell the two Australian instances are already afoul of the laws in their country so as soon as their Government notices they are going to have some difficult decisions to make.
If they said that about Lemmy i would tell them to fuck off
Lemmy will eventually be targeted by the various Age Verification and Social Media laws popping up all over the globe. More of them are being proposed and passed every week and the confusion and risk just grow higher.
As an example my home instance, lemmy.today, is run out of Washington State and they have proposed legislation that could impact us. HB2112 and HB1834 are just two examples.
Even if none of them pass in WA, and one of them surely will, it won’t too be much longer before the NSFW instances in the lemmiverse start getting targeted by the wide range of States who already have such laws. Instance operators do not have the money to challenge these laws in court so their options will be: comply, shut down, or get fined into oblivion / risk jail time.
I’m not happy about it but in IMO Lemmy is living on borrowed time.
Content like this is why I come here.
As an American I’m rolling my eyes so hard at your comment that they are about to fly out of my skull.
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