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LPT: Worried about martial law being declared in response to mass peaceful protest? Then you already have no rights guaranteed to you so you lose nothing by applying other means to stop injustice (lemmy.world)

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This LPT doesn’t violate the community rule against illegal advice because in this purely hypothetical scenario the law means nothing

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

The last time the Democrats had this much control

It was 2021...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_divisions_of_United_States_Congresses

But they choose to "look into" things till that inaction gave Republicans control of the House, and they stopped pretending to even look into things.

.it's the danger of the only option to fascism being "maintain status quo and profits".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago

Democrats didn't have control/majority over the Supreme Court, so there was at least check on power. No such checks on power exist for the GOP right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Not accurate. In 2021 the Supreme Court was split 6-3 in Republican favor.

Also, the Senate was super split with 50 Republicans, 48 Democrats, and 2 Independent Senators (who, although they caucused with the Democrats, wouldn't necessarily vote in lockstep) -- and two of the Democrats (Manchin and Sinema) seemed more interested in obstructing things than in the party's agenda.

You'd have a better argument if you'd brought up the ACA, IMO. The numbers in Congress favored the Dems more in 2009-2011.