• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Remember when we told people Trump would take people’s rights away and they thought we were delusional?

  • حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
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    2 months ago

    You know what is really funny About US Americans and their near religious reverence of their political institutions? You people think that the source of the problem is the solution. The constitution won’t save you. The constitution of the US describes a state that is incapable of operating and leaves open this sort of tyranny. Due the the broken structure of your government you’ve been unable to pass meaningful legislation for decades. There hasn’t been an amendment since the 1992 and that was to give congress a raise. You raise up normal day to day legislation like it is a major accomplishment like funding a small amount of infrastructure “build back better” and a right wing guaranteed profits law that only really benefits the insurance industry “america cares act” as major accomplishments.

    The constitution isn’t what is going to fix this. The constitution describes a government written in the preindustrial age to maintain slave owner supremacy and protect the interests of the elite. It describes a system that is subject to a tyranny of the majority that has weakness in the very cultural fabric of Americans like hyper individualism, materialism and anti-intellectualism.

    These aren’t just the rantings of a “tankie” either, this was called out by Tocqueville in 1831 and it has come to pass.

    • CluelessCalls@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      That’s not entirely true, the constitution gives Americans the opportunity to overthrow tyranny. People will exercise that right one day, maybe it won’t be too late.

      • حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
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        2 months ago

        What is unique to the US is their civic religion with the saints of the founding fathers and the reverence of the documents themselves. Most modern countries rewrite their constitutions but the US is stuck with theirs because they worship it.

        Many other governments have a better structure, but that isn’t the point of what I wrote. Maybe the US Americans can write something new that is even incrementally better and it would be a positive. I was born and raised in the US but have left it behind.

      • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        2 months ago

        You don’t need to cite another country as having a better structure to point out the one you currently live in is broken.

        the systems that currently exist are not the only systems to have ever existed nor are the the only possibilities to choose from. Other options are possible.

        Lastly, nothing about the tone is suggesting this is specific to the US. They are simply describing the US situation. You’re the only one comparing it to the situation of other nations.

  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Thr classic freedom versus security. But where exactly is security with Trump and fascists? Social media is to blame for making everyone’s brain turn to mush; making us fight among ourselves while the oligarchs are laughing themselves all the way to the bank.