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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. ricardobeat ◴[] No.45281009[source]
How do you explain Trump unilaterally renaming the Ministry of Defense, without legislative approval? Is it a “working branch” if their constitutionally granted power is easily sidestepped?
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2. otterley ◴[] No.45281044[source]
Do you mean the Department of Defense? The U.S. doesn't have ministries.
3. terminalshort ◴[] No.45281885[source]
I couldn't care less because it has always been and always will be the department of war whether or not the letterhead says "Department of Defense."
4. nickthegreek ◴[] No.45283276[source]
the dod was not officially renamed to the dow. that would take an act of congress. he gave it a secondary title.