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    1 day ago

    There is a concept of “rule of law” vs “rule by law”.

    You are confused about “law” because what you are seeing now is the latter.

    This is what kings did ~250 years ago in Europe. But then they started getting their heads cut off and quickly realized they had to change their approach. Some did, some died.

    Many people on Lemmy will tell us “bring out the guillotines”. I would love that. But I don’t think it’s that simple anymore. We have consolidated wealth and power in such a way that even rolling heads will not solve it.