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   Michael Halila 🏳️‍⚧️ (mhalila@mastodontti.fi)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 18:29:08 JST Michael Halila 🏳️‍⚧️

   I still think it's interesting to ask what form of government the US is exactly. In a sense, a democracy, with a franchise limited by overt racism (voter suppression, gerrymandering and so on) and subject to almost dictatorial oversight by a Supreme Court elected for life and functionally immune to accountability.

   Now they've decided that a president can try to overthrow democracy as part of his official duties. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/jul/01/supreme-court-decision-trump-immunity-ruling

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     Michael Halila 🏳️‍⚧️ (mhalila@mastodontti.fi)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 18:29:06 JST Michael Halila 🏳️‍⚧️

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     The US Supreme Court isn't really a court of law any more, in the sense that a European would think of one. The closest equivalent that I can think of is Iran's Guardian Council: a theocratic body with veto powers over basically all functions of government, dedicated to maintaining religious supremacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Council

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     Michael Halila 🏳️‍⚧️ (mhalila@mastodontti.fi)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 18:29:07 JST Michael Halila 🏳️‍⚧️

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     If you look at Trump's coup attempt, and the way the Republican appointees on the Supreme Court are behaving, I don't know how you see this as anything other than a concerted effort to impose minority rule. Such democracy as the US has is too much for these people, and they're working determinedly to scrap it.

     Aral Balkan repeated this.