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PSPS

(13,618 posts)
Sun Aug 4, 2019, 12:23 PM Aug 2019

You know your system of government is broken when ...

... there is no mechanism to put an immediate stop to a country's president encouraging deadly (or any) violence on the country's inhabitants. This is Assad-level behavior. I guess we haven't gotten to the "barrel bombs" stage yet, but this has become quite bad enough. Yet, the only available remedy seems to be a months-long (or longer) wait required for impeachment or election, neither of which can happen quickly enough to be of any real life-saving value.

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You know your system of government is broken when ... (Original Post) PSPS Aug 2019 OP
If an ordinary citizen were encouraging murder of a certain demigoddess Aug 2019 #1
This is the crux of our problem. He's still in power. BSdetect Aug 2019 #2

demigoddess

(6,645 posts)
1. If an ordinary citizen were encouraging murder of a certain
Sun Aug 4, 2019, 12:48 PM
Aug 2019

person or kind of people, it would be a chargeable offense. And we should make gun owners carry significant insurance against personal damage to a person and strict laws about keeping the guns out of the hands of children, or pay a price. And the AK 15s should be only in the hands of the army and marines, etc.

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