• Telorand@reddthat.com
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    11 months ago

    Good.

    But as a point of contention, dictators, emperors, supreme leaders, etc. are not presidents. Just saying.

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      11 months ago

      Dictators, emperors, supreme leaders, etc. do not hold themselves to the law in the first place, so should we just never bother passing any?

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      11 months ago

      If one were able to assume any of those titles, wording of laws wouldn’t matter, they would be able to replace the laws however they saw fit. So trying to phrase that would be redundant yet pointless.

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      11 months ago

      The laws aren’t written in any way that facilitates that for obvious reasons. It still requires a lot more effort (and to more directly be a dictator) if the system currently in place does not allow for something without force.

      But like it’s just saying the obvious. If the laws in place block it, he would need to hope the next coup actually works.