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She thought the US constitution was read-only
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Marsha Blackburn opposes the 2nd amendment.
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.
At this point I'm almost for requiring at least some sort of legal degree for these positions.
The bar has been lowered so much that I wouldn't be surpised to learn that some of them couldn't even read.
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
Literal Article V denialism. Almost like she's never read the document before.
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.
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.
you probably just got here like most lemmyists, but we've been pointing out the flaws in their ideology since the internet was birthed. no one's listening. time for real solutions.
"you've been here for over a year so you couldn't possibly understand politics from the past four decades, or human nature"
Wut
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You mean the US constitution wasn’t written by god and handed down by Jesus?
That's not Jesus. He's not brown enough.
We're going for American Jesus.
Needs more guns and pickup trucks.
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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.
next you're going to tell me there's a hidden treasure map on the back of it
Oh shit there is!?
Err I mean ha-ha that's silly...
Brb
what, like, the original constitution? the original document? or just any random ass copy of it>
The actual document lol
that genuinely sounds like a dan brown book with the first page saying that all the facts in the book is true (99% of it is huge lies)
It's mental illness, unfortunately. They legit believe it.
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
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.
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.
I'm not OK with either of those things, but I will tell you that the 2nd Amendment is here to stay. Read up on the process for amending the Constitution for reference. It only takes 13 states voting No to ratification to block it. A majority of Americans support the 2nd Amendment, including VP Harris.
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