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> no practical way to ever update the Bill of Rights in the 21st century What on earth do you mean? The practical way is the same as it always was: subsequent
by semiquaver 4mo ago
> no practical way to ever update the Bill of Rights in the 21st century
What on earth do you mean? The practical way is the same as it always was: subsequent amendment. The fact that it requires consensus is a feature.
This reads the same way as people who say things like “we just have to accept that Congress is broken and can’t pass new legislation.” Like hell we do!
- lazide 4mo agoThey mean ‘have you seen congress? Good luck’, not that the mechanism is mechanically harder to use.
- qingcharles 4mo agoThis. Getting enough states to agree on a change would be a fool's errand I think. It seems like the reds and blues can't agree on anything at all any longer.
- graveemaster 4mo agoI agree 99% with you, except when it comes to these enormous data centers. When you look at the local zoning committee meetings, you're seeing Reds, Blues and Ind mostly calling for a moratorium on build sites in their communities.
- lazide 4mo agoWhat does that have to do with anything that would plausibly be in the bill of rights?
- Henchman21 4mo agoI mean, after decades of manufactured cultural rifts, we're right where the powers that be want us to be. Disorganized and ripe for exploitation.
- expedition32 4mo agoPeople in my country hate eachother yet nobody pretends it's still 1848- the year the Dutch constitution was written.
- lazide 4mo agoCount yourself lucky.