• M68040 [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    I feel like this falls under the “life” part of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”

    Also, in a broader sense, “we can shit everywhere all we want and never clean up” is a criminally idiotic way to govern

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    Biden is the more competent fascist we were warned about. Capital will get its way regardless of which major political party is running the country.

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      there’s only been competent fascists and incompetent fascists for the last few decades at least, Trump was merely so incompetent that it temporarily broke the grand spell before the government used the Men in Black memory deletion thingy and everybody went “Awesome, back to brunch!” on January 20th, 2021

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      The US is the only country I know of that fetishises it’s constitution to this extent. Most everywhere else it’s just an old document, but it seems like us lawmakers treat it like some demonic pact that has to be inscrutably followed

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        It’s also really weird how the highest court in the land is supposed to be dedicated to interpreting the constitution and extrapolating whether the founding fathers would have supported or opposed something fucking 250 years ago. Other countries rewrite parts of their constitutions all the time, but in burgerland George Washington is a deity that supposedly knew it all.

        Also, America has the second oldest working constitution in the world which (only beaten by a microstate), which is kinda crazy for how young the country is

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        What’s the difference between a lawyer and a demon? Idk

        Both make pacts and contracts. Both honor the verbiage of the contract to the letter over the intent. Both will cost you dearly. Both generally only show up uninvited or when something bad happens. Both take benefit from others’ misfortune.

        I can’t tell the difference.

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      r/politics is just saying “yeah, true”, literally nobody going after Biden (some people actually saying “Jacobin just doing this because they’re desperate for Trump back because Biden is so good”), and people arguing about how the ‘sacred documents’ say we can’t do anything

      America is so fucked lmao

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    In the Biden administration’s June 22 court filing, Justice Department lawyers argued that because the child plaintiffs are not the only people who will be harmed by ecological breakdown, the suit should be thrown out.

    “The state of the climate is a public and generalized issue, and so interests in the climate are unlike the particularized personal liberty or personal privacy interests of individuals the Supreme Court has previously recognized as being protected by fundamental rights,” the Justice Department wrote.

    biden You see, this is going to kill everyone so your individual concerns about being killed are invalid

    joker-amerikkklap

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      “They’re trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly.

      “No one’s trying to kill you,” Clevinger cried.

      “Then why are they shooting at me?” Yossarian asked.

      “They’re shooting at everyone,” Clevinger answered. “They’re trying to kill everyone.”

      "And what difference does that make?”

      ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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    Ah, thank god the document was written to protect us from the transport of alcohol, but not to say, ensure we actually get to be alive.