• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
    516·
    4 months ago

    Honestly, the constitution at this point is in fact irreparably fucked after the immunity ruling.

    We need to throw it all out and start over with an actual democratic system with federal distribution of power that’s an actual power sharing agreement instead of traitors jumping to whichever level of government they think they have the most control over at the moment.

    Also, abolish the office of president. It’s obvious that the independent executive will permanently stand as a danger to the republic no matter who ascends to the white house. The concept inherently promotes parasitic leaching of powers whenever an opposing branch doesn’t do thing the executive wants.

    • miridius@lemmy.world
      273·
      4 months ago

      Your constitution was already pretty terrible and outdated, clinging to it has been one of America’s problems for a while now.

      But yeah I totally agree with you

    • Septimaeus@infosec.pub
      13·
      4 months ago

      Most of the blighted systems in US government could heal organically (democratically) with just a handful of critical amendments. Throwing it out might be overkill.

      For example, establishing multi member district plurality would allow FAR greater flexibility for major progress (including further amendments to the Constitution) since coalition governments have larger majorities to clear the otherwise stringent voting thresholds.

      Re: the presidency, I tend to agree. Beyond the usefulness of a figurehead, every purported benefit of a unilateral decision maker is a potential liability of equal or greater magnitude.

      TL;DR: all constitutions can/should be fixed continuously. Figurehead-oriented presidencies can be useful, but one office should wield little to no power. Giving them nukes is a recipe for disaster.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    452·
    4 months ago

    LiberalGunNut here™.

    “I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time,” Trump said at a meeting with lawmakers on school safety and gun violence.

    “Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said.

    Yep. He said that.

    • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
      28·
      4 months ago

      What the hell? His entire voter base is hardcore second-amendment absolutists!

      I ask, not for the first time and almost certainly not the last: HOW THE HELL DOES THIS MAN STILL HAVE A SINGLE SOUL ON EARTH WILLING TO VOTE FOR HIM?

      • vga@sopuli.xyz
        18·
        4 months ago

        I’m sure r/conservative will be happy to hear about this new piece of information so they can make better decisions in the future.

        edit seems like I’m shadowbanned

        • anivia@lemmy.ml
          9·
          4 months ago

          You can’t get shadowbanned by subreddits. You are either shadowbanned across reddit completely, or the /r/conservative mods gave you a regular ban from their subreddit. It’s also possible your comment/post is stuck in moderation queue and therefore not visible to others until it gets manually approved by a moderator

          • neoman4426@fedia.io
            5·
            4 months ago

            Could theoretically simulate one by having a bot mod automatically delete all posts by certain users. No clue if that or any other sub actually does so, but who knows

              • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
                3·
                4 months ago

                Coulda told you that was coming. They curate what’s allowed to be talked about there very carefully. Any whiff of anything that falls short of actively sucking off Dear Leader is removed by a mod before the public even sees it.

                Personally, I was wholesale banned from /r/conservative for quoting a Trump tweet verbatim one of the few thousand times it conflicted with something he said on camera. They really don’t like that being pointed out for some reason.

      • Evotech@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 months ago

        When asked hrs just gonna say something else and nobody will remember the first thing he said

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
    24·
    4 months ago

    Trump runs a company of like 12 employees.

    Trump could never trust any organization that he can’t threaten directly or by proxy.

    Did anyone else notice that Trump refused to have any of his “acting” heads of federal agencies be confirmed. Because “acting” ones could be replaced summarily by Trump. Once confirmed Trump loses that executive flex and thus doesn’t know how to politic except under those means.

    Trump refuses to play ball because he is not as smart as Harris, Biden, John McCain, Obama, Bush & Shrub, Clinton2.

    • Zess@lemmy.world
      13·
      4 months ago

      It’s a pretty good talking point when conservatives bring up the border. Trump didn’t even have a legitimate DHS director for like 3 years of his presidency, meaning basically any action the phony directors took is up for legal scrutiny.

  • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
    95·
    4 months ago

    I mean it was written by slave holders to defend their property (land, factories, and slaves) against the masses.

    But given that people like Trump are exactly who it was written to protect, I suspect that’s not why he hates it.

  • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
    832·
    4 months ago

    That’s a good tweet, but this is definitely the wrong community

    Edit: people have explained to me that this is not actually the case, and the name of the community is just a leftover from Reddit

              • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
                6·
                4 months ago

                Wait, really? Why is it called whitepeopletwitter? I thought it was for making fun of people like Elon Musk

                • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
                  11·
                  4 months ago

                  That name is a holdover from reddit. IIRC, it was created as the white version of r/blackpeopletwitter. When people jumped over to Lemmy, some people (sensibly) noted that it’s stupid to segregate tweets, and since we aren’t on reddit anymore, we don’t need to stick with their conventions. However, by that time the community had already been named, and it couldn’t be changed.

                • mkwt@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  4 months ago

                  Oh are we talking about urls vs display names? On my client, this community appears as “People Twitter”.