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Micah@rincewind.run |
the United States has one of the oldest constitutions in the world and is no longer, practically speaking, capable of amending it this leaves us, on many issues, only a slight step up from strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as a system of government
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open can of brainworms 🥫🧠🪱
@onlinefunctions.bsky.social
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we're using the alpha version of constitutional government and looking at all these other countries, modeled after our own but with many fixes, with a kind of sneering condescension
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Isabel Cooper
@isabelcooper.bsky.social
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We are basically the alpha version, yeah, rife with bugs and clipping errors and prone to freezing any time someone types a capital M.
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Ian McLean
@mrthewalrus.bsky.social
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We coded up an early alpha of Representative Democracy, put it in production, and only later realized there was no viable update path for most of the fundamental systems.
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Alan "the Truth shall make ye flee" J
@n5iln.bsky.social
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Can we give the strange women system a go? Just once?
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Sean Flaim
@seanflaim.bsky.social
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The Constitution would still be workable had two things not happened: 1) a bunch of "states" filled with no people got established in the west, with corresponding representation in the Senate; 2) the House hasn't expanded its size since 1913, even though we now have 3.6x more people than in 1910.
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Flying Mezerkis
@bananapantz.bsky.social
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At least that would acknowledge the existence of women.
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Franklin D. Roosefella
@roosefella.bsky.social
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we got a long list of massive constitutional problems. and how parties pick their presidential candidates ain't even on the first page
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡
@moxiest.art
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Incredible to think that this infallible document we were all told about in school had a zero-day exploit that can be best described as "fuck it."
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@dirtyoldhippy.bsky.social
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I,ve often dreamed of a moistened bintocracy
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Camden 🏳️⚧️
@camdenmaclaren.bsky.social
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Pretty sure the American Experiment has completely failed
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week4paug
@week4paug.net
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Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!
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Coolbone Minoxidil
@dingokayfabe.bsky.social
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Yeah, thing needs a complete overhaul
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Elliot Sperber
@elliotsperber.bsky.social
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Older than the Book of Mormon, with more (and more zealous) religious adherents
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RKOpatryx
@rkopatryx.bsky.social
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That was supreme executive power that came from the farcical aquatic ceremonies. The U.S. constitution, on the other hand, would be legislative power, i.e. those who describe what is a witch and what must be done with them, how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes, and such.
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Jambalaya Val
@jambalayaval.bsky.social
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If TFG gets back in office, we're gonna WISH we had strange women lying in ponds.
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Adina M. Yoffie
@adinayoffie.bsky.social
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Watery tart for President!
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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whoa whoa whoa there, it's totally different Micah. We ask the nine elderly oracles who work in a marble temple to convene with the ghosts of the ancestors and decide what Hamilton and Madison think about EPA regulations or online content moderation
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Minister of Misanthropy
@tonyhighwind.hellthread.vet
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Frankly, I think I'd prefer the strange women in ponds. By all available evidence, they have better advisors.
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Warcabbit
@warcabbitmwm.bsky.social
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We're running a patched but not maintained Democracy 0.0.3.alpha.
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TwoHitGood
@twohitgood.bsky.social
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"no longer, practically speaking, capable of amending it " which means the country is irreparably broken. the country is doomed without the ability to amend the constitution as needed.
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niqaeli torres
@niqaeli.bsky.social
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the US is the jank-ass Los Angeles freeway system of democratic republics. made all the mistakes everyone else learned from, and it’s almost impossible to retool into something functional because you can’t stop using them long enough to fix anything properly.
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CJ the Awkward
@awkwardleftycj.bsky.social
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Can’t wait for SCOTUS to rule on what the framers intended us to do with AI.
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@nuliform.bsky.social
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At this point in time...i would Welcome strange women lying in ponds(Love MP)...because..what we have here..is...a failure of epidemic proportions..even the blind can see we are being Controlled & destroyed by a Career Criminal Crime MOB
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Squirrel the Riveted
@rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social
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It’s amendable just fine. We just don’t have any new amendments that are popular enough to ratify.
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Raven Onthill
@ravenonthill.bsky.social
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The difficulty of amendment leads to many legislators and jurists treating the Constitution as a sacred text, something that none of the Founders expected.
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Raven Onthill
@ravenonthill.bsky.social
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This was going to be part of a series but so far I have not come back to it.
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Dan Davis
@bindlestaff.bsky.social
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Just because some watery tart threw a sword at Thomas Jefferson…
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Dougie Schwartz (Author)
@dougieschwartz.bsky.social
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Where is she?! Does she really have a sword?! Oh. (Sigh) (Returns to hermit cave, disappointed there was no watery tart distributing swords.)
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ptrckdaly
@ptrckdaly.bsky.social
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He hasn't go shit all over 'hm.
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Dr. ShinyGoth
@ghostingdani.bsky.social
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The failure of the ERA was the first failure that led us to this moment.
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@gobe.bsky.social
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Just because some moistened bint threw a scimitar at you, etc, does not make you president!!
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Tom Wrongbottom 🍦
@wrongbottom.bsky.social
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It's a personnel problem.
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@jhwkco.bsky.social
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Even Douglas fucking McArthur and his far right crank lawyer Gen. Courtney Whitney knew better than to impose our system of government on Japan.
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Don Livingston
@donlivingston.bsky.social
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Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is sounding like an increasingly viable form of government…
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Kevin Butler
@milesnaismith.bsky.social
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There's a reason that the US State Department does NOT recommend using the USA as a governmental model when working with developing democracies.
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Wendel
@wendelschwab.bsky.social
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I read a great article about how the US political system is basically a modified version of the British political system from the 18th century trapped in amber. The article notes that the US elected George III every four years.
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FergusMcDingus
@fergusmcdingus.bsky.social
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Wait, you think this is a step UP? I’ll take women with swords 100/100 over this hoohah
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Ted Underwood 🦋
@tedunderwood.me
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For the good of the country, the constitution needs to resign.
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Chuck E. 🌊🦋
@emdashpython.bsky.social
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It’s also an agreement between a federal government and several state governments about how to divide up their rights and responsibilities. Individual rights are pretty much absent from the original document, and even the Bill of Rights mostly clarified states vs federal control of freedoms.🙏🏻😉
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HuluAndEbay Man
@huluandebayman.bsky.social
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Claire, Doll Safety Inspector
@extremely.gay
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That’s a recurring problem we have, call it a “first mover disadvantage”. We keep inventing things, building out a ton of the first version, and then saying it’s “too hard” to switch to a better version. We did this with mains power and the internet and our weird flavor of imperial measurements.
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