Basic Glitch @ AcidicBasicGlitch @lemm.ee

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You understand that this goes both ways? The more we accept constitutional amendments as the norm, the more we place our liberties and constitutional rights most people just kind of assume are always guaranteed, at risk.

Look at how Trump handles executive orders. Imagine what he would do if people just accepted constitutional amendments no big deal.

I live in Louisiana, and I'm watching this happen right now with my governor and the state constitution. The amendments were worded in a very confusing way, and even legal experts agreed that it was unclear what the repercussions of the amendments passing would be.

In a surprising outcome, the state shot down all 4 of the proposed constitutional amendments, because people are recognizing this guy is a tyrant trying to abuse his executive power.

Pretty clear that people don't want those amendments right? Cool, so problem solved let's move on. Nope, he's making us vote again on the same amendments because he's, hoping that he can word it just right, and pad it with enough things that will please his voter base, so eventually voter apathy will kick in for the opposition and allow his amendments to pass.

What?

The mistake was giving supreme court justices appointments for life, but the government should definitely not be given easier access to make amendments to the constitution.

The point about Roe v Wade is that people need to understand history, and how they have been used to further an agenda. They need to know that many of these issues, were never actually issues most Americans were divided over.

They were turned into divisive issues by wealthy shadow men controlling the narrative, and treating government issues like advertisement campaigns.

I had no idea until very recently that before the Heritage Foundation used it as an opportunistic platform, the southern Baptist leadership actually had a favorable viewpoint regarding Roe v Wade...

I grew up in the southern Baptist church, and I didn't know that because barely anybody in this country knows that, and absolutely nobody in the southern Baptist church fucking knows that.

You want to get people to wake up, and stop falling for whatever the next "issue" is (whether it's DEI, immigration, govt bureaucracy, AI regulations), you need them to understand the history and reality of who is actually creating the narrative and manipulating them.

Roe v Wade was the original example and how segregationists gained control of a large chunk of American voters just in time for Reagan to be president. Same sex marriage came later.

It's explained in the wall of text, but bottom line is you can thank the Heritage Foundation.

I feel like we're going to end up with more laws protecting robots and surveillance cameras than our own civil liberties.

Wonder where all those angry white guys with tiki torches and khaki shorts are now? The ones that thought the Jews were trying to replace them? 🤔

"This could be a game-changer for a time when many in the research community are feeling all sticks and no carrots,” said National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt at the kickoff meeting. “This is a chance to actually deliver a win for them.”

🤣 I'm sorry, do y'all think she actually believes this? Or just hoping a good plug might keep her from being replaced?

I mean apparently they're partnering with a private robotics company. The picture is an actual model of the company's robot. Whether or not they actually end up implementing this, they're allegedly currently training the robots.

Presumably, if nothing else, Amazon/Bezos is probably getting some sweet federal kick backs to attempt this and further the current administration's agenda to beat "Gyna" in the science and tech race. Except unlike Gyna, the U.S. is firing all of their scientists (which, until Jan. 2025, was one area that the U.S. had unquestionably dominated China) bc they think AI can replace them too.

So now, they're just handing all the resources to the kind of technocratic "elites" who are used to just purchasing their good ideas, rather than actually creating anything. This is also why they seem to genuinely believe something like Amazon humanoids is a sound investment, "durr, we don't need people bcuz we haz robots."

Fun fact, just learned they are indeed going to try to replace scientists with robots too. There was a meeting about it yesterday:

For all we know they made the futuristic robot exoskeleton, took some fancy pictures of it holding a package, and that's all she wrote. The end result is just some rich assholes are slightly richer at the expense of the tax payer, and we should be grateful. 'Merica! 🇺🇲

The thing is, even if you give up and say, ok things will never change, I'm leaving my home bc I've accepted I don't belong here, it spreads. The goal is to shape America into the reality they want. If you don't stop it, it's not contained to TX, or LA, or the south, or the fly-over states, or the suburbs/rural areas.

Look at Roe v Wade. That didn't just happen overnight. State level policies spread from within and then eventually paralyzed a federal protection for the entire country.

The only reason that even happened was bc the same people that wanted segregated schools also wanted to maintain federal tax exemption, so they saw Roe v. Wade as an opportunity to gain support for their movement. It had nothing to do with being morally opposed to abortion.

The Real Origins of the Religious Right

In 1971, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention in St. Louis, Missouri, passed a resolution encouraging “Southern Baptists to work for legislation that will allow the possibility of abortion under such conditions as rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental, and physical health of the mother.”

When the Roe decision was handed down, W. A. Criswell, the Southern Baptist Convention’s former president and pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas—also one of the most famous fundamentalists of the 20th century—was pleased: “I have always felt that it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person,” he said, “and it has always, therefore, seemed to me that what is best for the mother and for the future should be allowed.”

6 years after Roe v. Wade, in 1979, the Heritage Foundation co-founder and political activist Paul Weyrich used abortion as a platform to deny Jimmy Carter a second term bc he knew it would be easier to get people on board regarding Roe v. Wade rather than getting people to support their movement protecting segregated schools.

Weyrich's goal was to always gain power and ground for conservative values to dominate the entire country. He wrote about the need to dismantle the federal government decades before anyone heard of RAGE or DOGE.

They use federal bureaucracy as a talking point now for the same reasons they seized Roe v. Wade back then. Bc it's a lot easier to get people on your side and convince them your goal is to get rid of unnecessary and "harmful" federal policy, rather than admitting your true goal is be allowed to steamroll federal protections with zero consequence.

May 21, 2025: Justice Department ends police reform agreements and halts investigations into major departments

In court filings Wednesday morning, the Justice Department asked judges in Minnesota and Kentucky to dismiss the consent decrees reached with the police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville.

“After an extensive review by current Department of Justice and Civil Rights Division leadership, the United States no longer believes that the proposed consent decree would be in the public interest,” the DOJ said of the Minneapolis agreement.

The Civil Rights Division is also closing investigations into local police departments in Phoenix; Trenton, New Jersey; Memphis, Tennessee; Mount Vernon, New York; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and the Louisiana State Police.

Jim Pasco, the longtime Executive Director of the Fraternal Order of Police, said that consent decrees are ineffective and “do not make any material positive difference in the relationship between police departments and the cities they serve.”

“In fact, to the contrary, it exacerbates the problem because it validates thinking in urban areas that the police are their enemy,” he said.

So the entire U.S. believes that? Across all those cities and states? Or does a select group of people seem to be speaking for the entire U.S. and making some very concerning policy decisions regarding federal protections?

Police records obtained by NBC News and interviews with Kern de Gonzales and the pair’s neighbors paint a complicated picture of what led up to Joss' death.

So it's a fact he went on to Joss' property to confront him, and then ended up shooting him in the head...? On his own property? And then calling him a slur after he shot him?

Regardless of history, if it happened on Joss' property, it really doesn't seem complicated. It seems like a pretty deliberate decision, and if he put the dog skull on their property it actually kinda seems pre-meditated. Like he was hoping for a confrontation.

I've had some awful neighbors in the past, and it sucks. Sometimes you just can't get along with people. Even the worst of the worst neighbors I've had, I can't imagine ever going on to someone else's property to confront them, killing them, and then expecting anyone to believe I might have been in the right.

It's one thing to defend your own home, but it's not your job to confront your neighbor on private property with a lethal weapon, just bc they had previously been walking around the neighborhood with a pitchfork. Wtf?

Isn't this all footage that we've known about for a long time?

Just to be clear, I felt like we shouldn't be electing a creepy rapist that hung out with Epstein even before he got elected the first time. I never thought we would somehow do it twice, especially after he almost killed us all the first time around, but c'est la vie, I guess.

Just wonder how much of this is just a reality TV/wrestlemania style distraction IRL. Like what does it really change that Elon is reposting information we already knew?

Like there is other big shit going on with Israel, Gaza, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, and the EU going on right now but nobody is really talking about it bc we are paying attention to Elon re-screening videos of Trump/Epstein that we've already seen.

I guess they felt like drones flying over civilian populations was a bit too unsettling in this day and age, so they are shifting to humanoids that will jump suddenly from moving vehicles and dash towards a destination.

So what we're being told is that if Trump backs off and let's Russia retaliate against Ukraine, Putin will do us a solid and handle Iran. Meanwhile, Trump will appease Netenyahu through strong-arming these lady judges and helping spread propaganda against Hamas?

And we're just supposed to pretend like Trump wasn't already doing way too much to appease these two anyway?

It just kind of seems like Trump is publicly portraying himself as some kind of good cop doing whatever he can to keep his loose cannon partner in Israel from going off the rails, but in reality, he's just providing cover for Netenyahu and Putin to keep committing atrocities so they can readjust their power grips.

Like he's playing the card of "oh I'm just trying my hardest to prevent WWIII from happening," meanwhile giving Russia the ok to go ahead and retaliate against Ukraine/possibly kick off WWIII with the E.U. anyway, while also indicating what side he's going to be taking even if the U.S. doesn't get directly involved in fighting in the war, and "continues to remain neutral," while actually doing all kinds of underhanded shit. Does that sound about right?

Fuck the fascists, but yeah I'm regretting even posting this now bc I'm pretty sure it was just theatre to distract from the fact that around the same time this was all happening, Netanyahu acknowledged on Twitter that he armed clans of Palestinians..

In other words, it looks like he got caught arming clans of Palestinians the same week that all this happened:

Hamas working to 'sabotage' Trump-backed aid group with 'fake news': Israeli official

New recordings reveal Hamas fired on Gaza aid hub to steal supplies

In conversation with IDF officer, Gaza residents say terror group fired mortars on center in Rafah; testimonies challenge claims of Israeli fire and highlight growing efforts to block independent humanitarian aid

'They're criminals, like ISIS': IDF reveals Gaza resident's testimony to COGAT officer

I feel like it's pretty clear. He got caught trying to paint a picture, and now he needs to spin it in another direction.

Hamas working to 'sabotage' Trump-backed aid group with 'fake news': Israeli official

New recordings reveal Hamas fired on Gaza aid hub to steal supplies

In conversation with IDF officer, Gaza residents say terror group fired mortars on center in Rafah; testimonies challenge claims of Israeli fire and highlight growing efforts to block independent humanitarian aid

'They're criminals, like ISIS': IDF reveals Gaza resident's testimony to COGAT officer

Like ISIS huh? That's a funny comparison to make. Wondering what the chances are this Elon-Trump feud just blows over like it never even happened

On twitter....

This reminds me so much of John Mulaney's joke about a Trump vs Kim Jong Un fued that eventually leads up to nuclear war after Trump goads him into it by saying "You know what, I want you to do it."

Part of me knows this has almost certainly got to be a distraction, but maybe not? Even if it is, just dear god I am just seriously flooded at reality rn. Surely they jumped the shark. Where does this administration even go from here...?

Doesn't Elon have access to the nuclear codes?

Ok

Originally the discussion was about politics always being brought up on lemmy for all topics even when it's not relevant to the topic. I said that it's not necessarily that people want to bring it up, but it's hard to talk about most things without bringing it up bc it's become so invasive in so many things.

Maybe I misunderstood you, but it seemed like you were arguing it's not actually invasive it's just propaganda making it seem invasive, no?

So I was explaining how it actually has been very invasive for me in response to the statement about it being propaganda.

I mean, literally it feels like it's overtaken my entire life, not just online. Everything.

I was kind of into politics before, but never to this extent, even during Trump's first term bc it's just fucked up everything for me.

My job, my plans for the future, my child's future, my family that are retired and dependent on social security and Mediciad, my friends that have had health issues.

It's not propaganda. It's literally just fucked me over, and ignoring it would just be like closing my eyes, sticking my fingers in my ears and pretending reality isn't real.

If that's not the case for you, I understand and kind of envy you, but I promise its the reality for a lot of people right now

Yeah I don't trust this guy. He's got no moral backbone or real ideology other than a desire for power. I seem to remember him being very vocal against Trump at points, then backing away from criticisms at important times during Trump's first term. Putting a D next to his name now definitely doesn't make me trust him. Even fucking Trump would have stuck with being a Democrat if he thought it would have made him rich and powerful.

If Walsh actually wanted to help this country he'd run as a Republican, but be vocal against Trump. Or better yet, just remain an independent. This country needs to start electing 3rd party candidates, especially with name recognition on his side, he might have a decent chance with the positions he's taking.

We don't need more people like Fetterman weaponizing the title of Democrat to keep putting a "bipartisan" spin on Republican policy, and move the party more towards the right.

If that's where the Democrats really believe we should be headed then yeah now is the time (before we get any closer to midterms) to decisively say we're going to need a new party for left candidates.

2019 viewpoints of Walsh

No Republican with any common sense or shred of decency would have this take: 2012 Republican Joe Walsh: abortions to save mother's life never necessary

People can change, and I applaud him if he has genuinely changed,... but we also need to stop pretending like an older conservative with name recognition, is somehow the best way forward for the party.

There are younger progressive candidates who actually have the drive to make this country better than it was in the first place, instead of just returning us back to normal, only to keep compromising, and losing the little ground we managed to get back over and over again.