• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    …so the years of absolute inactivity leading up to now was the result of a moralized DOJ?

    Gee, I sure hope this doesn’t effect their work ethic!

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      It will, they’ll get to work harassing activists and whistle blowers. Laying the ground work to dismantle beneficial systems in place and most of all begin indicting those that oppose the regime.

      Vote local for people to protect your rights locally. The federal government will no longer feign to benefit the working class.

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    Well maybe they should get rid of that memo that says they can’t prosecute sitting presidents. That’d be a start at least.

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        That sounds reasonable, yet here we are with criminal cases – proceedings necessary to carry out the law – being put on hold due to said memos.

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      The DOJ has over 110,000 employees. It only takes a handful at the top to stop the honest everyday workers from doing honest work.

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        Somehow I think thousands of employees could literally strongarm the individuals pushing corruption and holding them back.

        Like, when did we forget that there’s power in numbers?

        So because your boss says some dumb fucking thing, but a thousand people on your team disagree with it and think it’s idiotic… but y’all are gonna buckle down and do whatever dumb shit your boss said anyway?

        Because he can fire every single one of you and replace you overnight? In a specialized government job? As if.

        This could be solved overnight if ANYONE in the DOJ had some fucking balls.

        “But this one guy at the top whose only power is the name of the position and in reality he’s just some schlub in a suit like the rest of us but he’s promoting some really damaging ideas for our institution as a whole… Maybe if we care about our institution we should kick his ass to the curb.”

        No, Americans are fucking cowed and more than willing to just roll over and do whatever some schlub with no real power other than being their boss tells them.

        That’s why we’re sleepwalking into fascism. Because everyone in a position to stop it is a giant fucking pussy who accepts zero risk to their own personal lives to keep fascism at bay. They’re far more worried about themselves than they are about the future of the country as a whole.

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    4 hours ago

    Well good thing the DOJ spent years dragging their feet instead of actually doing anything about it.

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    Oh, that’s just dandy to hear. I’m guessing they are so demoralized that they aren’t going to do anything about it.

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    Does it matter? They’re all going to be replaced with personal attack dogs anyway.

    Lindsay Graham can fuck right off with his projection lying-ass bullshit “the people are sick of lawfare, we’re done with that now that Democrats are out.”

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    It’s gotten to them that there is no justice, even in the Department of Justice.

    If they’re screwed anyway, they’d have little to lose mounting a last ditch prosecution?