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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the constructive feedback. If American system would have been functional enough to actually impeach and indict him then we wouldn’t have this conversation right now as his immunity would have been stripped. That’s impeachments whole point – to hold people in power, who are otherwise immune from prosecution accountable (at least that’s how I understand it), but I totally get where you’re coming from. It worked with Nixon as he probably would have been impeached had he not stepped down. I mostly agree with the points you raise nevertheless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think presidents having immunity is essential to have a functioning democracy. Otherwise the party currently in power could arrest the previous president for something they allegedly did while in power and would set a bad precedent. I think it is best for the presidents to be immune unless impeached by both the house and senate for something particularly heinous. And yes, Trump should probably have been impeached already after the insurrection, but that doesn’t change the fact that you can’t just willy-nilly arrest some ex president. There is separation of power for a good reason: to not give too much power to any branch of government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree. Downvoting is essential for Lemmy. I often disagree with something and it’s right to have a democratic vote on topics.