r/politics • u/Mason_Miami • 1d ago

Conservative group claims Trump's tariffs illegally usurp powers of Congress

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/this-unlawful-impost-must-fall-conservative-group-sues-trump-claiming-tariffs-are-unconstitutional-exercise-of-legislative-power/
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u/Ja3k_Frost 1d ago

That whole sub is a total joke. You can probably boil 80-90% of all posts and comments into 3 categories.

“I’m going to take a principled stance and say this is bad, I wish trump would stay on message, we’re not like those liberals, we’re free to disagree here”

“Wow the brigades are out in force today, lotta libs in these comments, hi r-politics, you know trumps over the target when we’re being SUPPRESSED!!!”

“Hey look at this news article about a brown/trans person doing something bad”

That’s it, that’s all it is. Though not gonna lie, the “we’re not like liberals, we support free speech and diversity of thought” angle is really funny.

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u/BRNitalldown 1d ago

Unflaired users comments don’t even show up there. I’m pretty sure upvotes and downvotes don’t work either unless you’re flaired (and presumably not banned). But man, don’t they complain so often.

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u/Hurtzdonut13 1d ago

If you use a browser that ignores css then you can upvote/downvote.

There was a guy posting earlier on that sub that used to have a flair, but his last posts were removed and he was shadow banned because he disagreed about the tariffs being a 100% good thing and he was so confused because it was the liberals that ban dissent.

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u/BRNitalldown 1d ago

I’m not familiar with how it really works, but sometimes I link to weeks to months-old posts on that sub which causes the number of hidden comments to go up (of course, they don’t show). So I know there’s engagement, but the votes never change on the post nor in the comments, if that clears it up.