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Yeah, Joe's progressive. Progressively streamlining destruction of Indigenous graves and endangered species (hexbear.net)

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[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 53 points 11 months ago

Oh, so the dumb fucking wall is still happening? And we can just waive laws now? Since fucking when, and how come the California High Speed Rail Authority doesn't know about it, or does efficiency only apply when we're increasing suffering?

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 45 points 11 months ago

does efficiency only apply when we're increasing suffering?

Yes, correct. These are the rules of hellworld

[-] GoebbelsDeezNuts@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago

Getting closer and closer to the Allied Mastercomputer reality everyday.

[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago

California high speed rail = inconveniancing white landowners

Boarder wall = getting to destroy indigenous graves and harm people displaced by US foreign policies

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 35 points 11 months ago

And we can just waive laws now? Since fucking when?

I started looking into it and found this:

The controversial work, which included construction on federally designated wilderness, was permitted under the Real ID Act. Created in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the act grants DHS the authority to waive any law, including bedrock statutes meant to safeguard the environment and areas of cultural significance, to build border barriers in the name of national security.

Source

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago

Bulldozing wildlife habitats and native burial grounds to curb the threat of (checks notes) Mexican terrorism

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

Because the richest people in the US wanted to undermine a left wing government in Afghanistan in the 1980s they funded an army of appalling reactionaries which eventually turned against the US. Because of this, it is now legal to build the border wall regardless of the consequences.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 32 points 11 months ago

And we can just waive laws now?

astronaut-1

the laws have never applied to the ruling class.

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago

Oh, so the dumb fucking wall is still happening?

always has been brump

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

And we can just waive laws now?

We cannot; they can. The ruling class has only practical constraints on what it can do, but in truth bears no legal obligation to anything but itself. Individuals in the ruling class may receive punishment for lawbreaking, having violated their obligation to their class, but when the ruling class moves in a unified fashion, there is no such thing as them being bound by their own laws, because they are the ones who write the laws, enforce the laws, and rule on allegations that the law was broken (or, more accurately, they own the people who do those things). In a capitalist society, what has the general support of capitalists and thereby the major parties is always going to be "legal" unless a divide forms in that coalition.