We all could drag everything through every court over and over until our victims are overwhelmed to the breaking point and give up if [people believed] we had the money to do it.
Now he doesn't even need money. He has the power of the US government to do it instead, all three branches, and the fourth estate. Other fascists are taking note and copycatting this style: do literally whatever you want, tie it up in the courts until you win, or if you somehow reach the end of that road without winning, ignore any consequences and start over from the beginning.
The third box has failed to secure liberty. Even if it inexplicably ends up securing liberty again, its Achilles' heel has been exposed. Like a 32-bit encryption key, it "works", but only if everyone agrees not to hack it. Anyone who doesn't can get away with literal murder.
This is the fundamental issue with civilization. Good faith power must get power, hold power, and actually successfully govern; bad faith power is free to devote all of their resources to the first two. Evil will always be more nimble and more unfettered.
I take almost no comfort in the inevitability of good prevailing. Selfishly, mostly because I don't have that kind of time. On a cosmic scale, none of this matters. A rock in space is not evil, and once we're obliterated either by devices of our own making or the march of entropy, the universe will be neither good nor bad. Bad only loses due to the mortality of man, but once bad is finally "defeated" there will be no one left to appreciate it.
Musical chairs rules dictates that once the last bit of life in the universe is inevitably blotted out, all that will be left is morally inert, inanimate matter, and therefore evil will not exist for millions of years. It's winning the battle but losing the war on the grandest scale.
16 Comments
logicbomb@lemmy.world · 97 pts · 300d
Boy, he just gets to do whatever he wants, doesn't he?
Triumph@fedia.io · 43 pts · 300d
We all could drag everything through every court over and over until our victims are overwhelmed to the breaking point and give up if [people believed] we had the money to do it.
Now he doesn't even need money. He has the power of the US government to do it instead, all three branches, and the fourth estate. Other fascists are taking note and copycatting this style: do literally whatever you want, tie it up in the courts until you win, or if you somehow reach the end of that road without winning, ignore any consequences and start over from the beginning.
The third box has failed to secure liberty. Even if it inexplicably ends up securing liberty again, its Achilles' heel has been exposed. Like a 32-bit encryption key, it "works", but only if everyone agrees not to hack it. Anyone who doesn't can get away with literal murder.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 35 pts · 300d
The Supreme Court simply exists to legitimize his power these days.
Mitch McConnell engineered a takeover of the country while leftists fought with each other about Harris and Clinton being left enough for them.
Hylactor@sopuli.xyz · 22 pts · 300d
This is the fundamental issue with civilization. Good faith power must get power, hold power, and actually successfully govern; bad faith power is free to devote all of their resources to the first two. Evil will always be more nimble and more unfettered.
Hylactor@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 299d
I take almost no comfort in the inevitability of good prevailing. Selfishly, mostly because I don't have that kind of time. On a cosmic scale, none of this matters. A rock in space is not evil, and once we're obliterated either by devices of our own making or the march of entropy, the universe will be neither good nor bad. Bad only loses due to the mortality of man, but once bad is finally "defeated" there will be no one left to appreciate it.
drhodl@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 299d
Meh. I'll be in a different dimension by then....
fakir@piefed.social · 2 pts · 300d
Correct, but remember the very old saying that good prevails over evil. It always has and always will, even in times when it's hard to believe so.
overthere@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 300d
I thought the old saying was that evil will always triumph over good because good is dumb.
fakir@piefed.social · 2 pts · 300d
Lol, good looks dumb cuz he dresses like a nerd, but he's quietly a genius.
baines@lemmy.cafe · 5 pts · 300d
wut?
historically evil always wins
even batman plays with the idea
Hylactor@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 299d
Musical chairs rules dictates that once the last bit of life in the universe is inevitably blotted out, all that will be left is morally inert, inanimate matter, and therefore evil will not exist for millions of years. It's winning the battle but losing the war on the grandest scale.
baines@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 299d
yea you all stop existing the moment I do
no one is making to the heat death of the universe
fakir@piefed.social · 2 pts · 300d
Are you saying batman always loses?
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 299d
blave@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 300d
With nobody to stop him…
EndOfLine@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 300d
American Tax Dollars at work!
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 299d
Just laser-focused on making life better for the American people, isn't he?