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		imglorp on Feb 19, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Execu... Disbanding of both the legislature and judiciary would be on any dictator's playbook from the last N centuries. I can't imagine either of those bodies would be ok with getting shuttered but it seems they are both pushing for it. Why?

tfigueroa on Feb 19, 2025 | [–]

Many would be adjacent to the new ruler. The startup shutters but the VP of Engineering is already starting something new with his old reports.

bagels on Feb 19, 2025 | [–]

They get something out of it and lack of scruples? Money, influence, seeing their religious views pushed on others, who knows what else.

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