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[–] Protoknuckles 93 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's been too long without an ammendment.

[–] disguy_ovahea 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Congress votes on party lines and there hasn’t been a 2/3 supermajority since 1977.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/95th_United_States_Congress

[–] Tikiporch 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sadly, we can't count on cooperation in government.

[–] disguy_ovahea 16 points 1 month ago

Or reason. Only loyalty.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil 3 points 1 month ago

Congress votes on party lines

Hey now. I bet you we could get some kind of bipartisan amendment through if it pertained to selling arms to Israel.

[–] IphtashuFitz 64 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It needs to be called out just how weird it is that US Senators like this don’t understand the very document they have sworn to uphold.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (7 children)

The bar has been lowered so much that I wouldn't be surpised to learn that some of them couldn't even read.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At this point I'm almost for requiring at least some sort of legal degree for these positions.

[–] Jiggle_Physics 4 points 1 month ago

a LOT of the people most important to governing within the constitution, enforcing it, and specifically hired to protect your rights granted by it, know little, to nothing, about it

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I know fully grown adults who think the constitution has never been altered, the ammendments were always there and "just what the founding fathers worked on after signing it and sending it to king George", and that any talk about congress changing things after the fact is just 'liberal propaganda" and at least one person, when asked why they think that, responded with "well I've never seen an Ammendment happen in my lifetime so obviously it doesn't happen."

Several of these adults are related, so I can see why multiple people in the same family might hold that belief, but the fact that I know MORE THAN ONE is insane to me.

I went to school in a non-religious school that was very much a religious area. Sex Ed was basically the scene in Mean Girls "If you have Sex you WILL GET PREGNANT and DIE"

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)

well I've never seen an Ammendment happen in my lifetime so obviously it doesn't happen

The 27th Amendment was ratified in 1992

[–] TriflingToad 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

1992 was 32 years ago. Adults are 18. People born in 2006 are adults.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

You shut your damn mouth right now!

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[–] edgemaster72 10 points 1 month ago

Fun fact: More amendments went into place in the 1900s (12) than any other century (1700s: 11, 1800s: 4, 2000s: 0)

I'm surprised those people don't at least know about Prohibition if they're the types to throw around "liberal propaganda"

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[–] Zerlyna 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We are trying our best to vote this bitch out here in TN.

[–] danc4498 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] flicker 9 points 1 month ago

Marsha Goddamned Motherfucking Blackburn.

Stopped us expanding Medicare. In the pocket of the telecom companies. And all around, general, piece of shit.

[–] NounsAndWords 38 points 1 month ago

But I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

-Some stupid idiot who never read the Constitution, probably

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt 33 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Funny how the people who scream "you can't change the second amendment" seem to be perfectly OK with nationalizing Christianity...which would violate the first amendment

[–] someguy3 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I've already read their mental gymnastics how America is a Christian country because blah blah blah. They specifically say that treaty that says it's not is a treaty and not part of the US something or other.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

What's really fun is that for a big chunk of them, the first three Presidents (at minimum) were not Christian by the definition a lot of them prefer. Washington was a deist. Adams and Jefferson both explicitly rejected the Trinity, which a lot of them hold as being central to the definition of Christianity. Also, Jefferson made his own bible translation that took out the parts he didn't like, and he wasn't coy about saying so.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You mean the US constitution wasn’t written by god and handed down by Jesus?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's not Jesus. He's not brown enough.

[–] someguy3 26 points 1 month ago (9 children)

We're going for American Jesus.

[–] LustyArgonianMana 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You mean supply side Jesus

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Needs more guns and pickup trucks.

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[–] halcyoncmdr 31 points 1 month ago

Gotta get rid of that 2nd Amendment then as well don't we?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You'd also not be able to own guns, or have freedom or religion or speech. Look up the meaning of Amendment why don't you.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Eh, a rewrite is not the same as an edit.

If I start talking about rewriting our code base, I'm not asking to fix a big or add a new feature, I'm saying we need to scrap everything we've got and start again.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Literal Article V denialism. Almost like she's never read the document before.

[–] dubious 9 points 1 month ago (10 children)

you can point out their hypocrisy, it doesn't matter. you can make fun of them all you want, it doesn't matter. you can debate their ideas, it doesn't matter.

if you want to save the world, there's really only one solution.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Save the cheerleader?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I agree and disagree with that. If you don't point it out and tell them (and others) that they're wrong, then they go on doing it with zero pushback and it eventually becomes the truth.

I completely understand what you're saying, and it's exhausting they just continue to shout over everyone, but nothing changes if no one does anything.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Marsha Blackburn opposes the 2nd amendment.

[–] spookedintownsville 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Waiting for the chmod joke

[–] Avatar_of_Self 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
congress@US:/govdocs/$ chmod 754 US_Constitution

justices@US:/govdocs$ sudo  chown justices:usg US_Constitution

justices@US:/govdocs$ chmod 744 US_Constitution
[–] spookedintownsville 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

justices forgot the rules of sudo

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local Systems Administrator. It usually boils down to these two things:
#1) Respect the privacy of others. #2) Think before you type.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

There is a person here on Lemmy that seriously believes if you turn the constitution upside down it magically turns into Latin and has secret messages.

So, yeah. Unfortunately I'm not surprised with this lady.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

next you're going to tell me there's a hidden treasure map on the back of it

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Well…. Some US senator needs education it seems

Here.. I found something for their level: https://youtu.be/pSANTRnEBgg?si=qlSiKX79B01oJMSr

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