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FUN FACT: "checks and balances" and "balance of power" don't mean bull-fucking-shit when one of the dudes' check is: "I control all the men with all the guns." (hexbear.net)
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[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

John Locke may have been a slave profiteer, a feudalist, and an insufferable nerd, but he was absolutely right about that whole "consent of the governed" thing.

Really hard to run a country when the trappings of authority fall away and your own cabinet refuses to listen to you.