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@ThewTheKooky @freepatriot I disagree on your definition of tyranny. Seems like historically it is more synonymous with autocracy than war.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080704212038/https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tyranny

I see your point about the #PatriotAct, I actually did not know that it was not renewed, or even that it needed to be renewed!

https://aklp.club/objects/437de2ea-24ca-4626-b11f-bdfa2aa60d8e

He may not be able to unilaterally write tax code, but he can unilaterally state wars in contravention of the constitution, and unilaterally snatch anyone off the street and ship them to a forign dungeon without due process in contravention of the constitution.

I guess the question is do you think tyranny is a binary or a spectrum.

Thank you.

Congress has not declared war since wwii. Every bomb and boot deployed to forign soil in anger since then has been in violation of the constitution. Congress doesn't have the power to pass a law making violating the constitution legal, they need to actually amend the constitution for that.

And absent due process, we have absolutely no idea who has been shipped where. You're just taking their 'trust me bro' for it.

@nicholas @freepatriot @ThewTheKooky I think to me, in order for it to truly be tyranny, the rules must have subverted or destroyed democracy in such a way that prevents him from being removed through the will of the people. If you can be democratically deposed, you don't quite have unlimited power.

@nicholas @freepatriot @ThewTheKooky I don't think that military action lasting less than a month violates the #Constitution.

@freepatriot And he's RIGHT, TOO - everything the State is, and stand for, goes against the Philosophical vision of his...Nietzsche's Philosophy has a different approach to EVERYTHING, the state cheats us off our individual freedoms..

@freepatriot

Corporate welfare.

@ThewTheKooky @freepatriot

The only thing you're really right about here is the violation of #2A, which begs an interesting question: is a violation of a single right inherently tyranny? Where does mere #authoritarianism end and tyranny begin?

On #ThePatriotAct, #Trump didn't pass it, and it'd actually have been tyranny for him to repeal it unilaterally. On taxation, #Trump has actually lowered taxes, not raised them, so I guess that makes him the opposite of a tyrant lol.

https://thewestsidegazette.com/what-will-you-do-when-they-come-for-you-and-yours/

Those who say 100% of the US budget pays for welfare are wrong.