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LeoPanthera ◴[] No.45279813[source]
One of the very few tech companies who have refused to bend the knee to the United States' current dictatorial government.
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FortuneIIIPick ◴[] No.45280588[source]
Dictatorial suggests a "ruler with total power". The US has three branches of government. That hasn't changed, ever.
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vkou ◴[] No.45280643[source]
Two of them jump at the command one the other one, one out of fear (because he has ended the careers of every rep that has crossed him), and the other has been packed with life-time-appointment sycophants who put loyalty to the cut over anything else.

Russia (or literally any other dictatorial tyre pyre) also has three branches of government and a token opposition, for all the good it does.

Just because you have a nice piece of paper that outlines some kind of de jure separation of powers, doesn't mean shit in practice. Russia (and prior to it, the USSR) has no shortage of such pieces of paper.

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FortuneIIIPick ◴[] No.45280704[source]
That's a ridiculous take. Seriously outlandish. The US has always had and continues to have three working branches of government. That is a factual statement because it is indeed a fact.
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1. chankstein38 ◴[] No.45281002[source]
I always think it's funny how people who have strong opinions based on nothing love to out themselves by just repeating that something is fact. clap clap We're all convinced, for sure! ;)
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2. otterley ◴[] No.45281013[source]
It's straight out of Charlie Kirk's playbook.