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DeadOverRed 4 points ago +4 / -0

You can sue the government . . . if they let you, and to the extent they let you. It's in the playbook- a fund to give people money after they suffer. Just more wealth redistribution, but with lots of blood.

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BoughtByBloomberg2 1 point ago +1 / -0

No you can sue the government. There is no clause here that makes them immune. You can't sue OFFICIALS. But you CAN sue government.

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DeadOverRed 2 points ago +2 / -0

No, you cannot. Governments are sovereign. You can defeat them with guns, but you cannot sue them if they don't want to be sued.

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BoughtByBloomberg2 2 points ago +2 / -0

Governments are sovereign doesn't mean what you think it means. It means that another nation can't sue them for policy. Or invade them like Bush did because muh WMDs. It doesn't mean citizens can't sue the government, state or otherwise, for damages.

See George Kirby's family suing the government of their city for cash and getting it.