• Wilco@lemmy.zip
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    19 hours ago

    Laws only work if there is a penalty for breaking them. Example: it is against the law not to release the Epstien files … but what is the penalty for breaking that law? Nothing was written in. The same for ICE, no one is checking them and they are staying out of Castle Law states.

  • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    Wow look at those big bois. I bet they go home, scream at their kids, then beat their wife and dog.

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      Ah, the classic, “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” -Francis M. Wilhoit

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    20 hours ago

    This is very satisfying in a schadenfreude kind of way. I have been lectured to by Americans and those influenced by them for decades about the importance of their constitutional freedoms to shoot children and spread hate speech.

    Some liberal western democracies don’t even have a codified constitution and still have better human rights and fairer government than the USA. Without a well functioning representative democracy with preferential or proportional voting, concentrating enormous executive power in a single tyrant without strong protections was always obviously exploitable.

    I think a lot of them are still living in denial and think the good guys are going to come in and defend the constitution at the last minute. Hope they are right. It is one hell of a gamble for them and the rest of us.

  • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 hours ago

    The Constitution also gives Congress the right to a constitutional convention. This means that it can be possible for the US to become socialist by way of constitutional reform. Seriously!

  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Laws are only laws when they’re enforced. After decades of trading law enforcement to hate and fear the average citizen, they don’t care to enforce laws that exist to protect those citizens.

    And don’t tell me it’s always been that way. It’s a matter of degrees and there’s been a effort for decades to normalize police violence. It was bad, but it’s been engineered to be worse.

  • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    The main question is how legal would it be to shoot at masked armed gang breaking into your home to kidnap you and your family without any judicial warrant.

    Because that is exactly what the 2nd amendment is for

    • piecat@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      “Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6”

      I mean FFS, at this point ICE might kill you just for fun.

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        20 hours ago

        Immigration proceedings aren’t before a full court with a nury. It’s an administrative proceeding. So, there isn’t even the 12.

  • zen@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    You guys haven’t really had rights for a while, by the sounds of it.

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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      20 hours ago

      Naw but we got Mountain Dew buckets, cheeseburgers, and AR-15s in high school! Wooohooo!!! Thank Jesus I’m not a pinko Commie!!!

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      1 day ago

      Black people been saying. everyone else just refuses to listen

      (except for native americans, they been saying it the longest, they just don’t have the presence of messaging because they’ve been pushed so far into the margins)

  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    You’re forgetting the “Nobody is going to stop me” exemption. The constitution is just a piece of paper if nobody is willing to defend it.

  • cheesybuddha@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The constitution give you a right to organize 30 of your neighbors, armed with guns, and chase them out of your neighborhood.

    You also have the right to put buckshot into the face of anyone who illegally breaks into your home.

  • TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Its not, republicans stacked the courts so they can violate the law and republicans in congress are cheering them on.