• Cleverdawny
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    1 year ago

    Every democracy has partisan oversight groups. I’ll get mad at their abuse, not their existence.

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      1 year ago

      Do you just enjoy playing devil’s advocate?

      Nobody of sound mind could look at this and just think “Yep, this makes sense. One party should have a secret partisan police who can victimise other political parties and force them to stay silent about it, and comply without question, otherwise be criminally charged. This definitely won’t have any wider negative implications for society.”

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      1 year ago

      If you think republicans aren’t going to abuse a partisan police force then your concerns are void and you’re sleepwalking through life.

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        1 year ago

        I think it’s likely they will, and that every police force is partisan, and that they’ve been abusing that for decades.

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      Every democracy has oversight groups, or an ombudsman. It’s not partisan

      Imagine a similar situation in a European country having several parties and one party wanting the state budget to fund their investigation of the government. That shit would never see the light of day because there’d always be a majority against it. This only exists in USA because of the two party politics.