• pyre@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    you can make lots of things look good by comparing it to genocide and chattel slavery. still, fascism has been a part of USA forever. this includes genocide, settler colonialism, chattel slavery, apartheid, constant wars, systemic racism… the US has played all the hits. has actually inspired hitler himself. that’s an achievement.

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      12 hours ago

      i like the part where, in response to some states rigging their elections…apparently the the only possible measure to fix that under our government is to…rig elections even further?

      shit guys…maybe this constitution of ours just kinda sucks, and we should wipe our asses with it and make a new one instead.

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        6 hours ago

        How tf are you going to destroy the USA and make a newer fairer constitution when the other two top military world powers have a vested interest in fucking you over at every step of the process?

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        8 hours ago

        i don’t know if your founding fathers were idealistic or dumb but as a group who supposedly trying to free the people (not slaves but don’t worry about it) from tyranny, they certainly left too much to the honor system.

        “the president shall be bound by law, you know, unless he doesn’t want to” is indeed a naive attempt to limit presidential power.

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        15 hours ago

        unless you’re a native, or black, or LGBT+, or Latino, or Muslim, or…

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          15 hours ago

          Me and my gay black muslim friend were at the NoKings protest the other day waving a flag and listening to the tribal council guest speaker, really great time all around.