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19 hours agoIt’s kind of funny (the sad kind of funny) that people with years of legal studies and experience have to meet and formally rule that something blatantly illegal to the point of stupidity is… well… illegal.
“If I have a made-up position that my own government admits is not an official one, can I go ahead and randomly fire thousands of people?”
“A ha! Good question, let’s see what my copy of The Legal System for Dummies says!”
For what it’s worth, I didn’t think they are stupid, just that they are doing blatantly stupid, over-the-top stuff.
On purpose? Yes it’s a really scary thought that this might be a coup in slo-mo. And I mean slo-mo just relative to the more common “army abruptly takes power” approach, but it’s still disturbingly fast.