Hacker News Reader

Comment by erikb | Hacker News Reader

If you did that, you couldn't take US money either. Especially now that we've seen Trump and his friends, does anybody really consider them better than any other powerhungry folks?

View on HN

Can you show me the list of President Trump's human rights abuses ?

E.g. depends on whether you consider simply grabbing women by the pussy as a human rights abuse.

... when she's okay with it.

Fortunatly for the US there are checks and balances hindering Trump from doing most of the evil he wants to. Don’t be naive and think he would be nice if he had dictatorial powers.

He has already publicly complained that he can’t use the FBI for whatever he wants to, like going after his political opponents.

So doesn't the U.S. get some credit in the don't-be-evil Olympics for having such a system in place?

Just imagine if the US had secret prisons, policies of torture, autonomous killing machines, an unaccountable surveillance apparatus, and worst of all, a government that outright lied about some of these things without consequence during a presidency awarded a Nobel Peace prize.

amirite

So no actual abuses, just some hyperventilating on the left? Presumably Trump could do things like, oh, I don't know, use the IRS as a tool to harass his political opponents.

>He has already publicly complained that he can’t use the FBI for whatever he wants to, like going after his political opponents.

When his political opponents take money to approve a deal to sell one-fifth of the United States's uranium production to Russia [0], perhaps the FBI should be going after them.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com