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Law as something distinct from the immediate whim of the executive backed by military force is under (both figurative and literal) attack in the US right now.


Whats under attack is the idea that this was ever not the case. Laws are arbitrary, temporary and not at all related to justice.


Look, I don't know what you kids are into. But laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic ethnic group in a given nation. It's just the promise of violence that's enacted, and the police are basically an occupying army, you know what I mean? Want to make some bacon?




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