• Hubi@feddit.org
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      16 days ago

      Is it really treason if it’s in line with what the government is doing?

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        It is if the government is also treasonous. Is it possible to charge an administration for treason? Perhaps we’ll see soon. Probably not, though.

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          You sort of have to go down the line person by person, but yes (assuming we still had a functional 3 branch government). Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution:

          The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

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    Calling Musk an “American” is surely stretching the truth a bit, innit?

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    Musk wanted to be Tony Stark. Somehow he ended up with Vladimir Putin in his fan club. The truly dystopian part isn’t the praise: it’s that one billionaire can turn critical communications infrastructure into his personal mood ring while governments keep treating him like a public utility with a podcast.

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      treating him like a public utility with a podcast

      Elon Musk has a podcast? What does this mean?

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        No, but Musk provides essential services while regularly hijacking three hour podcasts to complain about the government and world in general.

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      What treason? Trump buying from Russia and ending sanctions. This is just the club following the leader.

      We arent in the club so it seems confusing to us

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    “American partnerS”

    So Musk, Trump…and who else is partnering with Putin? Any citizen of the US who partners with Putin is a traitor.

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      I pretty much disagree with Putin on just about everything… well, mostly everything. I think we’d agree that anyone at all who partners with him should be thrown out of a window.

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    And here I thought Russia was anti-Nazi… Oops their goes all their low effort Ukraine propaganda.