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It seems they really are taking inspiration from 1933 "Gleichschaltung". It looks like they want to control everything. Has any incoming administration ever mad

It seems they really are taking inspiration from 1933 "Gleichschaltung". It looks like they want to control everything. Has any incoming administration ever made so many sweeping changes in such short time?

gjsman-1000 2y ago
Nonsense, our founding fathers didn’t even view pornography as free speech; with the first domestically produced pornography dating to 1840. They also had no problem with slander laws, imported wholesale from Britain. Revenge porn would have blown their Protestant minds to the point of not writing the first amendment.
- Terr_ 2y ago
  Hold up: Let's remember that when first made the US Constitution contained limits that only applied to what the new Federal Government could do. (The Articles of Confederation being a failed beta-test.) Before-vs-After the 14th amendment, a lot of comparisons automatically become apples-to-oranges. The people who crafted and ratified the Bill of Rights in 1791 simply were not operating in a world where those rules had nearly as much interaction/overlap with the 13 different State-level constitutions.
  - Terr_ 2y ago
    P.S.: Tangentially, this leads me to my "I get both sides angry at me" view about what the framers originally intended the Second Amendment to do. * For the less-gun folks: It creates zero rights to own a gun if you didn't already, since per-state laws took precedence. It merely prevented the federal government from indirectly disarming entire states in a sneaky way. In addition, the status-quo definition of "militias" [0] were forces commanded by state-appointed officers and supplied from state funds. * For the more-gun folks: Individual states were required to supply those militias with weapons that are significantly stronger than mere personal defense, such as small cannons ("field pieces") that could be towed by a horse. [1] I imagine the modern version would be a machine-gun on a pickup-truck. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation [1] https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/new-education-project-takes-aim-at-revolutionary-war-artillery/ https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/new-education-pr...
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gjsman-1000 2y ago

Nonsense, our founding fathers didn’t even view pornography as free speech; with the first domestically produced pornography dating to 1840. They also had no problem with slander laws, imported wholesale from Britain. Revenge porn would have blown their Protestant minds to the point of not writing the first amendment.

Terr_ 2y ago
Hold up: Let's remember that when first made the US Constitution contained limits that only applied to what the new Federal Government could do. (The Articles of Confederation being a failed beta-test.) Before-vs-After the 14th amendment, a lot of comparisons automatically become apples-to-oranges. The people who crafted and ratified the Bill of Rights in 1791 simply were not operating in a world where those rules had nearly as much interaction/overlap with the 13 different State-level constitutions.
- Terr_ 2y ago
  P.S.: Tangentially, this leads me to my "I get both sides angry at me" view about what the framers originally intended the Second Amendment to do. * For the less-gun folks: It creates zero rights to own a gun if you didn't already, since per-state laws took precedence. It merely prevented the federal government from indirectly disarming entire states in a sneaky way. In addition, the status-quo definition of "militias" [0] were forces commanded by state-appointed officers and supplied from state funds. * For the more-gun folks: Individual states were required to supply those militias with weapons that are significantly stronger than mere personal defense, such as small cannons ("field pieces") that could be towed by a horse. [1] I imagine the modern version would be a machine-gun on a pickup-truck. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation [1] https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/new-education-project-takes-aim-at-revolutionary-war-artillery/ https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/new-education-pr...
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