[lazide]

It’s always been a case of ‘if they can’t catch you/enforce it, it didn’t happen’.

It’s absurdly blatant now, however, and backlash is likely to be pretty crazy in 5ish-10ish years once it’s impacted enough people.

[zombot]

By then the opposition will have been renditioned to black holes or killed.

[lazide]

The current opposition maybe. No empire/government/strongman lasts forever.

[spencerflem]

Not if the democrats can help it