• Nalivai@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    If laws meant anything, Trump would be serving his first of many lifetime prison sentences right now. But laws only work as long as people believe they should, and yet another law wouldn’t help that.

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      4 days ago

      In Warhammer, there’s an Ork flying machine that works because the Orks believe it should work.

      In that respect, Ork war technology is more advanced than American law.

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        I’d say it is as powerful. It’s just Americans stopped believing in their own system, and now their cars are moving the same speed no matter what colour they paint it. They grew too isolated and now they can’t get the power of community to connect back to the source of collective.