• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    If only the founding fathers had written the right to bear apps shall not be infringed in an amendment.

    Oh well can’t change the ancient text now, just have to be governed by it forever. 🤷 (It’s a shame the ancient powder-wigged wizards that wrote the constitution weren’t clairvoyant.)

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      5 hours ago

      I am not from the US but can’t you interpret the first amendment in a way that would work here?

      Code is just information and you could argue that a platform is infringing on private free speech.

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        i am American, and yes we have a long history of interpretation that is expansive. the problem is we have narrow minded people running the institutions now who don’t even want the narrow interpretations to be in effect so they do everything possible to limit them.

        if you pay attention long enough you will see them use one argument to get their way, then later use the opposite to get their way on a different issue. there is no moral consistency because morality is just s tool to them.

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      14 hours ago

      That’s it gents! Wax up those mustaches, load the cannon with grape, storm the White House! We’ll give those bastards a day of reckoning that won’t soon be forgot.

      Also kilts and face paint 🤣

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      21 hours ago

      If only there were some way to change the ancient text. Some sort of amend-sion. Surely our benevolent leaders would have figured something like that out by now. I guess we’ll just have to keep voting and hoping every four years