• frozenspinach@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    The Millitary isn’t bound by some electoral laws of the universe, they just as easily could have said the vote was illigetimate.

    Well I mean they are bound by laws, to the extent that laws have meaning. And responding to legal instruction would seem to validate the force and efficacy of the legal system, right?

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      10 days ago

      Yes and no. Being bound by “legal” means is a pretense for civility, ie the social contract, but the millitary in no way must follow this. The Republic of Korea has had several millitary dictatorships, from Park Chung-hee to Chun Doo-Hwan, and to think any system is immune to such circumstances is false thinking.