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  • layla
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    2 years ago

    America is obsessed with upholding the Constitution not because it was written by imperfect human beings but because it is the vehicle which has greatly improved the human condition throughout these past 230 years. There is no other method that has endured so long, freed and uplifted and inspired so many people as the Constitution of the United States. It is a keeper.

    Most propagandised people on earth.

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      China, looking up from pulling hundreds of millions out of poverty in the past 30 years alone: What was that? Did someone say my name?

      • reddit [any,they/them]
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        2 years ago

        It's fucking mind boggling how stupid this country is. Socialism has taken a rural peasant country and produced a super power in like 50 years, twice, and still people here are convinced it's some fantasy system

        • invo_rt [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I've made this exact point before, but as a counter factual, I can't think of a place that has rapidly developed in the same way due to capitalism. Rather, it seems to have buoyed the existing world powers through industrialization.

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Communist countries are demonized if a single person trips on their shoelaces, but the US can be an imperfect beacon of light even though it’s founded on genocide and slavery with modern people still refusing to change the language that advocates for those things

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      2 years ago

      We basically chose to barely update it and now use the fact that we didn’t as justification for not doing it further. Big brain shit tbh

      • regul [any]
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        2 years ago

        Look we've had this paper for a long time. That's why we need to have it longer.

        • invo_rt [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Says person who hangs on to that box of computer cables for just one more year in case they need them.

          • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            One day I'm going to need that serial printer cable in case I buy a dot matrix printer.

            I don't have a problem

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      12 days ago

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    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      They really do believe that their system is the best. Every election cycle I would hear at least one person say, "other countries don't get to vote for their leaders" and I'm over here wondering what those other countries are.

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      That's absolutely amazing. You all fought a civil war because the constitution wasn't good enough, they literally had to spill blood over the framer's idiocy like 150 years ago.

      • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The constitution should have been torn up after the civil war (also the radical republicans should have been far more radical)

        • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          It's crazy to me that Johnson let former confederates vote and hold office or hold property. They obviously should have stripped all the slave owners of their property and parcel it out to freed slaves or returned it to whatever indigenous nation was in that area or something, fuck.

          • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            It’s crazy to me that Johnson let former confederates vote and hold office or hold property

            he was literally a southern democrat. lincoln got rid of his first VP hannibal hamlin and replaced him with a drunk racist piece of shit as an appeal to "national unity" after he already won the civil war. he should have been stomping the face of the vanquished dixie leaders into a soup like homogenate but was instead trying to appeal to them with civility

            Centrism: not even once.

            https://i.ibb.co/M2vKN4V/Lincoln-is-proof-centrism-doesnt-work.png

            • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              Marx thought Johnson would've been alright because he was a fairly brutal military governor of Tennessee. Pretty sure he wrote about it to Engels but I cant find the letter.

              • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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                2 years ago

                there's a whole book of their published letters to each other regarding the american civil war but they were spectating from across the ocean in a time when there wouldn't be a "24 hour news cycle" for another 135 years so.

    • mr_world [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Sometimes you just own people and force them to do labor even after people realize it's probably a bad thing to do. Sometimes I write the wrong year when writing the date. Nobody is perfect.