• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    City leaders argue that the proposal is unconstitutional and should be blocked from the ballot because it would give voters too much say over legislative decisions, effectively “usurping those powers” from their elected officials.

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      Democracy only when it suits those powerful few.

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      It’s like when Diane Feinstein said the ATF didn’t have the power to ban bump stocks and that it would require Congress to pass her legislation because she wanted credit for solving the issue, and then Clarence Thomas cited that when overturning the ATF’s ban on bump stocks

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      Did you think we lived in a direct democracy or something? This is how it works in this system. They never trusted the peasants.