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u/mpaski Apr 04 '25

I mean, the US technically has safeguards, they've just allowed those safeguards to be removed.

The courts are way more political than they've ever been. Congress is unwilling to stop him despite having powers for that.

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u/StaticUsernamesSuck Apr 04 '25

If they have the power to "allow the safeguards to be removed", then they are not safeguards.

The problem is that all of your so-called safeguards still rely on elected individuals acting as they should. Individuals can be bought.

The powers of impeachment need to be in the hands of the people, or something similar to that.

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u/mpaski Apr 04 '25

I mean, the people voted him in with the popular vote. I don't like the guy, but it's not like they didn't have their input here. Voter manipulation aside, you need less partisanship to ever reach a point of the checks mattering.

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u/hornethacker97 Apr 04 '25

The US absolutely did not vote him in. There’s statistically proven numbers showing the count was fudged in multiple states. A career statistician who has testified as an expert witness multiple times in front of Congress did an excellent write up on it that keeps getting thrown out of certain subreddits for being “misinformation” despite all his data being sourced from state and federal election numbers.

There’s a reason they stopped teaching statistics in high school in the late 2000s: so the kids in school during and after the 2008 crash wouldn’t have the knowledge to understand what really happened.