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There hasn’t been a rule of law in the US for four years. Congress and the judiciary have both been rubber stamping everything the President does.

Yet and still this is the same government that for some strange reason many on HN trust to “regulate tech”.

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> Congress and the judiciary have both been rubber stamping everything the President does

This is patently false—the U.S. has been losing court cases left and right [1].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/why-trump-...

Yet and still.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-didnt-like-rul...

One case, and the defiance is four days old. The injured will be able to get equity and injunctions in court.

Not a valid argument for equivalence with Xi’s regime.

From who? Judges in the same party with lifetime appointments? Is Congress going to condemn it?

> Judges in the same party with lifetime appointments?

Gorsuch recently ruled against Trump on gay rights [1]. As have several Bush appointees on other matters.

Party isn’t a perfect prism for predicting court opinions.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/us/politics/gorsuch-supre...

This is an opinion piece.

Are you saying the facts that it presents aren’t true?

It's behind a paywall so I don't know but what I do know is that I don't take any opinion piece as factual. Ever.

This is one of those shortcuts we use to cut out complexity, but in process, we create blind spots for ourselves.

It is not reasonable to expect things to either have opinions or not. An adult should have the sophistication to read something and understand what is opinion and what is fact. I get that many adults these days apparently lack that ability, but that doesn't excuse it.

I use it as a shortcut because I got tired of reading BS using the skills you describe. Now I don't read the opinion section at all. Once bitten twice shy.

Sure, but this is impossible to escape. Even if you're looking at a dry set of facts, there was editorial decisions made regarding what to put on that list and what to leave off. There is literally nothing you can read where you can escape the opinions of others.

No disagreement there

https://edsource.org/2020/trump-administration-refuses-to-ac...

No argument here on that topic.

Have you ever had to take a case to court? What percentage of your annual income did that cost? How long did it take to work its way through the system? Was there a finding of wrongdoing or an out-of-court settlement? Would you do that again? Would you want to do that for every interaction you have with the government?

You're really not paying attention if you think this behavior is unique to Trump

Well since he is the President now, that’s what kind of matters.

It matters that we recognize patterns of unaccountability and lazy leadership. The issues with the presidency are much larger than Trump and if we ignore that it will keep happening.

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