Bartsbigbugbag @ Bartsbigbugbag @lemmy.ml

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The national guard would be considered an army. It is not a permanent war economy army like our Army, Navy, Marines, but it is an army nonetheless. Permanent war armies are a relatively modern product.

I mean, I know it’s pretty common to reinterpret things such as that through a modern lens, and I support this law that’s being overturned, but well-regulated has a very specific definition in 18th century America, and it is not what you describe. Not to mention that ARMING EVERYONE (white, at least, the rest weren’t considered people by those racist fuckheads) was an explicit goal of the US, in order to support their settler colonial project.

A contract is text only, that would be a few kb at most when compressed… blockchain can definitely hold that, it can hold images, and someone even put Doom on the blockchain.

Ice cubes is on the Apple Store though… or is this something that happened in the past and has since been changed?

Honestly, it’s not just inefficient, it’s literally antisocial. But in the U.S., antisocial behavior is encouraged, and pro social behavior discouraged.

Always, in the last century… those two statements contradict each other. Never mind that it wasn’t that common outside of the middle class, even during the height of American wages.

Good call, I always confuse the preamble of the constitution with the preamble of the DOI. Appreciate the correction.

It’s not really generosity, it’s self interest to help as many people as I can. Better conditions in my community and society means better conditions for me too. A better society means a better life for my family, etc. anyway, Cheers!

I prefer to give my money directly to causes that help people, rather than helping the charity Industrial complex. So, no, I don’t donate, but I do engage in mutual aid and supply gratis goods to anyone I meet who needs something I can provide. I even raise chickens purely to give away their eggs to people in need, I don’t really eat meat. I’d encourage you to do the same, your money goes a lot farther than when it’s funneled through capitalist institutions. I can feed 50 people breakfast on what a charity needs to feed a couple.

That said, I agree. Do what you can, but don’t discourage others because they don’t share your perspective. For many in this country, conditions definitively do not change regardless of who is in power, and have been declining for decades.

Amendments don’t address the inherently white supremacist nature of the constitution, but amending it would be a step in the right direction.

We can start by removing MEN from the preamble and replacing it with PEOPLE, but literally every single part of it needs adjustments to remove the settler mind rot.

My issue with that, is change has historically happened in this country not through the ballot box, but the soap box. We didn’t vote pro union politicians into office, we literally fought and died by the hundreds against the government and companies until union rights were enshrined into law. We didn’t vote pro-civil rights politicians into office, we rioted in the streets in what was called the “Long Hot Summer”. You know? Like I said, I’ll vote for damage control, but I have no illusions that it will effect change in any of the many ways we need radical change. That will come from the bottom up, not the top down. We will force politicians to do what we will, and since we have NO methods for redressal of grievance through the system (no, someone serving their full term and possibly not getting re-elected is not redressal of grievance), we have to do so outside of the system, through direct action.

Thankfully, we’re seeing that now. People are doing the right things now, like interrupting politicians at dinners and events, and blockading imperialist corporations and preventing movement of weaponry, and sabotaging facilities to prevent their use by the state for oppressive purposes. Make their lives impossible. Make them live in fear of what will happen to them if they reject the will of the voters more than they fear what will happen if they reject the will of their donors.

That’s what wins fights, not saying, “I am gonna vote blue no matter who”, which immediately tells them they have no incentive to change because you’ll vote for them no matter what.

What avenue is in place for replacing the constitution through the current system? As far as I am aware, there isn’t one, and it will have to be done outside of the system through direct action forcing change. In the streets, not in the ballot boxes.

Do you have a researchgate or JSTOR account? It’s not gonna do any good to link you if you can’t read it, because in th is society academic information is locked behind paywalls unfortunately.

Or, accept that constitutions can be changed, and even replaced. It’s happening in countries right now, actually. Our constitution is out of date, and inherently reflects the white supremacist Eurocentric view of its writers. It’s far past time to retire it and replace it with one that enshrines Justice for all, including environmental Justice.

It’s been shown using decades of analysis that voting for the lesser evil ALWAYS moves you to the right. We will not vote our way out of this. If Biden gets into office again, he will fulfill his purpose as the political ratchet, preventing leftward movement. Just as he has done now, with his refusal to pick postal governors who will get rid of the definitively election tampering DeJoy. Just as he’s done with his record police funding. Just as he’s done with his ceaseless support of genocide in Palestine. Just as he’s done with his action preventing rail workers from ever again having the right to strike( and don’t hit me with that, they got 4 days of sick time, that’s totally a victory, because it’s not.). Just as he’s done with his refusal to even make a statement on cop city. Just like he’s doing by directing his DOJ to suppress pro-Palestinian protestors in universities and cities.

If you want change, stop acquiescing to their system, and demand it. Change happens in the streets, not the ballot boxes. Vote for harm reduction, I will, but make no illusions about it, you are not in any way making things better, that work is done not by voting, but by acting collectively.

My bad, I’m terrible about that. Thanks for politely calling me out, it reinforces in me the need to not assume gender online.

No, what he’s saying is almost every Muslim country has sent investigators to China, and not one has found evidence of torture or abuse.

Really, foreign powers went into Japan, colonized it, held it for decades, and then gave it to a group of people who aren’t from there and forced 700,000 indigenous Japanese to leave their country and live in a concentration camp?

Have you had your tv calibrated? It may just be poorly set up, I had a Samsung 4K, and I returned it because the image ghosting was too much, but the HDR itself was immaculate once I calibrated it properly.

And in the 80s it was illegal to be openly homosexual in most of the US. We don’t judge people based on decades old statements, we interact with them in the real world, now. You are passing judgment, by implying modern Hamas use of an explicitly liberatory phrase (that predates Hamas by at least 20 years) means that they are in support of genocide. Something which “from the river to the sea” has never once in its history represented. It has always been a cry for one party solution, and it will always be so.