• jkrtn
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    9 months ago

    We have to keep it forever though, because some dead slave owners thought up the perfect government, apparently.

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      9 months ago

      by far my favorite part about this is that thomas jefferson thought the constitution should be rewritten from scratch every 25 years but that hasn’t stopped every conservative politician ever from treating it like gospel

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        9 months ago

        “Constitution Originalists.”

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      8 months ago

      And we can’t change it because “if we don’t just keep following the system, we might elect Hitler. Don’t vote third party, that’s throwing your vote away and then the other guy will win”.

      There’s no winning. Only us constantly losing.