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217 points fortran77 | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 01:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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_ZeD_ ◴[31 Oct 25 03:56 UTC] No.45768260[source]▶
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0xDEAFBEAD ◴[31 Oct 25 04:33 UTC] No.45768463[source]▶
Just because the government is enforcing laws you don't like does not make it oppression. Imagine if everyone started using firearms in response to laws they considered oppressive, e.g. business owners who found regulation oppressive might say "come and enforce it". You would probably refer to this as "undermining democracy" if it was a law that you actually agreed with.
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1. hvb2 ◴[31 Oct 25 06:54 UTC] No.45769075[source]▶
I think if you were to look at how often a government is rebuffed by the courts, that's a pretty good indicator of how much they're trying to bend the rules or outright ignore them.

Also, "come and enforce it" is not undermining democracy. A law is only a piece of paper until a court upholds it. Even the federal government can write whatever it wants, if it's then ruled unconstitutional that's the end of that.

The problem going on right now is that so much is being broken that the already slow court system just cannot keep up.