What on earth do people hope to accomplish by saying "Efforts to hold Trump, Musk, etc. to account via the courts and to ensure that their actions are properly determined to be illegal are pointless, even when they get results. Instead, you should be doing what I'm doing, which is nothing"
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That goes up to 75% if they continue on to "Violence is going to be needed to oust him!"
For one, I'm not at all sure it's pointless. Courts still have power and if nothing else forcing open defiance of an order will lay bare the truth of their disregard for the country.
For another, when dealing with democracies, even symbolic actions can matter.
Courts can hold government agencies and individuals in contempt. They can assess fines. They can order arrests. And if the U.S. Marshals refuse to carry out the arrests, they can deputize someone else to do it.
They expect that someone is going to swoop in and fix it for them.
Like the people who still in this day and age throw garbage out of their car onto the road as they drive along, someone will come along and take care of it so I don't need to do anything differently.
unless they pivot to 'and that's why the only solution is [redacted]', then it's a fed (counterintelligence guy trying to get someone to conspire to [redacted] so they can prosecute the conspiracy)
The Xitter-type trolls were blocked by most of us. Then I noticed growing numbers of accounts featuring "we're doomed, democracy is dead!!", and attorney's posts drawing " yeah but how they gonna ENFORCE THE LAW??/" like iron fillings to a magnet.
I learned from watching Congress, OKAY I LEARNED BY WATCHING THEM!
Don't expect leadership from elected officials, not even once.
Make your statement of disquiet then do nothing to back it up and/or point out how doomed you actually thought the effort was/is if/when it fails to try and curry favor and be a permanent resistlib.
Course, playing in traffic gets you hit...