• 0 Posts
  • 86 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

help-circle









  • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.mltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldSafety
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    29
    ·
    18 days ago

    Where’s the well regulated militia you Americans scream about

    So, one could argue that the well regulated militia in question is constituted by the National Guard, as they nominally are the armed forces of individual States, and can be nationalized under certain circumstances.

    Except for the fact that Trump just nationalized the California National Guard when he’s nominally not supposed to…











  • The United States has some of the longest election cycles, maybe in the world, but definitely among western liberal democracies.

    So yes, the literal act itself takes a day. But everything surrounding that day is taken up by planning for the next election, enough robs people of other kinds of political engagement, by being such a massive time and energy sink.