It's been too long without an ammendment.
Congress votes on party lines and there hasn’t been a 2/3 supermajority since 1977.
Sadly, we can't count on cooperation in government.
Or reason. Only loyalty.
Congress votes on party lines
Hey now. I bet you we could get some kind of bipartisan amendment through if it pertained to selling arms to Israel.
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.
The bar has been lowered so much that I wouldn't be surpised to learn that some of them couldn't even read.
I don't think Diane Feinstein could really even comprehend anything at the end.
We should be careful about language like "can't read," when discussing taking away rights though. There are blind people who literally "can't read," but can comprehend information in an equivalent format and who'd be much more competent than someone like Feinstein.
Out of curiosity, what word do you use to describe the act of run fingers over brail characters to process their meaning?
We do not know exactly how many people can read Braille, but at one point it was estimated to be 10% of blind people could read Braille. So 90% of blind people cannot read Braille. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0145482X211071125?journalCode=jvba#:~:text=Another%20source%20for%20the%2010,the%20United%20States%E2%80%9D%20(p.
Braille is also expensive and takes up significantly more paper. It is more time consuming to use. Compared to audiobooks, Braille is typically considered inferior and outdated in many circles. I already knew about Braille before I commented, yes. Reading should not be the bar to deny someone rights. It also was a classic racist tactic too. It's a bad thing to advocate for (denying rights based on reading ability).
Being unable to read shouldn't be the bar to deny someone rights. But maybe it should be considered when we're talking about placing them in a position where they have power and influence over millions of people??
Honestly, I have no idea how you turned someone shitting on idiots into this attack on the blind.
At this point I'm almost for requiring at least some sort of legal degree for these positions.
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
I know fully grown adults who think the constitution has never been altered, the ammendments were always there and "just what the founding fathers worked on after signing it and sending it to king George", and that any talk about congress changing things after the fact is just 'liberal propaganda" and at least one person, when asked why they think that, responded with "well I've never seen an Ammendment happen in my lifetime so obviously it doesn't happen."
Several of these adults are related, so I can see why multiple people in the same family might hold that belief, but the fact that I know MORE THAN ONE is insane to me.
I went to school in a non-religious school that was very much a religious area. Sex Ed was basically the scene in Mean Girls "If you have Sex you WILL GET PREGNANT and DIE"
well I've never seen an Ammendment happen in my lifetime so obviously it doesn't happen
The 27th Amendment was ratified in 1992
1992 was 32 years ago. Adults are 18. People born in 2006 are adults.
You shut your damn mouth right now!
Fun fact: More amendments went into place in the 1900s (12) than any other century (1700s: 11, 1800s: 4, 2000s: 0)
I'm surprised those people don't at least know about Prohibition if they're the types to throw around "liberal propaganda"
We are trying our best to vote this bitch out here in TN.
I hate her so bad
Marsha Goddamned Motherfucking Blackburn.
Stopped us expanding Medicare. In the pocket of the telecom companies. And all around, general, piece of shit.
But I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
-Some stupid idiot who never read the Constitution, probably
Gotta get rid of that 2nd Amendment then as well don't we?
You mean the US constitution wasn’t written by god and handed down by Jesus?
That's not Jesus. He's not brown enough.
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
You'd also not be able to own guns, or have freedom or religion or speech. Look up the meaning of Amendment why don't you.
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.
Save the cheerleader?
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 can point out their hypocrisy, it doesn’t matter.
It matters quite a bit when you're talking about Presidential politics wrt an ongoing genocide.
Jill's condemned Putin, which is what everyone wanted her to do. But we're not sending Putin our highest end military equipment for the purpose of killing Ukrainians now are we?
Meanwhile, Hasan is bending over backwards to shield Biden and Netanyahu from accusations of a genocide we are facilitating.
And that's his point. He's trying to get Jill to shut up about Gaza, because it's the rock Kamala is poised to trip over in November. If she loses the Muslim vote in swing states, she's cooked.
Hasan needs Jill to recant her position on Israel in order to turn that protest vote against her. And you're playing into that delusion, because you're terrified she might actually manage to draw a Muslim protest vote in sufficient quantities to cost Democrats the election.
That's the only reason anyone on her gives a shit about the Green Party.
Im confused as to why this comment is on this post, since this post concerns not a single thing you put in your comment. Commenting screeds like this in posts completely unrelated to what you're going on about just gets you down voted and ignored, so nobody will see your comments, or take them seriously when they are actually relevant to the post you're commenting upon.
Absolutely nothing to do with this post or the conversation.
Eh, a rewrite is not the same as an edit.
If I start talking about rewriting our code base, I'm not asking to fix a big or add a new feature, I'm saying we need to scrap everything we've got and start again.
Waiting for the chmod joke
congress@US:/govdocs/$ chmod 754 US_Constitution
justices@US:/govdocs$ sudo chown justices:usg US_Constitution
justices@US:/govdocs$ chmod 744 US_Constitution
justices forgot the rules of sudo
We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local Systems Administrator. It usually boils down to these two things:
#1) Respect the privacy of others. #2) Think before you type.
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
Well…. Some US senator needs education it seems
Here.. I found something for their level: https://youtu.be/pSANTRnEBgg?si=qlSiKX79B01oJMSr
Anything that makes you apply your hand to your face.