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orochimaaru 2 hours ago

Not really. I mean Trump has amped the rhetoric, but there have been no new laws passed.

The privacy threats were always there.

pjc50 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Law is irrelevant under the power of the gun; it was the threat to invade Greenland and the threat to leave NATO which have triggered this.

(people keep saying things like "only Congress has the power to declare war"; that may be technically true, but a war declaration is a piece of paper, and practically the authorization of force is at the personal disposition of the President)

bootsmann an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Not everything makes US news but the decision by Microsoft to shut down ICC accounts after a Trump EO on sanctions really spooked a lot of EU governments.