• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Here’s something we could fix:

    We have no recall option! WTF! We should have such a mechanism. We should ask Congress to enact a law where we the people can recall the president via votes if we can collect enough signatures just like we are able to do for other things.

    • CaptSatelliteJack@lemy.lol
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      24 hours ago

      We do. It’s the 2nd amendment. Literally what it was written for, the forceful reclamation of democratic freedom should it be taken by a tyrannical leadership. Too bad everyone that actually gives a damn about that option is on red team, and blue team thinks the 2nd amendment is for killing children and nothing else.

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        24 hours ago

        I mean, to be fair, the red team thinks it’s pretty much only for killing children too…

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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        21 hours ago

        This is exactly why I’ve always maintained that the 2nd amendment against tyranny is complete and utter horseshit. There will never, ever, be a case in which civilians can take up arms against the US government and have any remote shot of doing anything. Any tyrannical government will get to where they are with such significant support they will be so ridiculously protected you’d have to take on the entire military and legal branches of the USA.

        In 1814 when every has a flintlock pistol? Sure. Now? Have fun getting remote drone striked before you even step foot into Washington D.C.

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        23 hours ago

        I believe in the 2nd Amendment, but certainly NOT to overthrow the government for light and transient causes. I don’t take Trump lightly, but he hasn’t turned into a total despot yet. There is grave risk, but there’s also a chance his abuses will lead to reforms that limit Executive branch powers. I think many non-Republicans like our guns as much as Republicans, but we don’t bluster about them and unlike Republicans we don’t rebel because our candidate lost an election.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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          22 hours ago

          That moment was Jan 6th. There was no heavy and hard change in Hitler’s Germany from the Beer Hall Putsch all the way to Stalingrad and the gas chambers. It’s all boiling the frog from here to there. Every change will seem like a light and transient one. By the time you feel you should go all in on the 2A, you will be mostly alone. That is by design.

          In fact, we are already in the Gleichschaltung and the appeasement phase.

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        1 day ago

        Now why would the elected officials do something to their own detriment? You want them to act like representatives or how they’ve been acting?

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          Many states have done things like that. the problem is for the feds its all defined in the constitution so getting an overwhelming majority to agree to limit power needs an overwhelming push.

          Imo the best thing to do would be push for a constitutional amendment that creates an initiative system that fully bypasses congress.