IT FUCKING LITERALLY IS LIKE THAT YOU FUCKING IMBECILE
LAW IS NOT FUCKING PHYSICS, YOU DIPSHIT, IT’S JUST THE PEOPLE IN POWER WRITING THE RULES
The absolute funniest bit is acting like the American constitution is unalterable, like…it can be amended, and in fact has been many times since it’s creation lmao.
You can even indirectly nullify/remove amendments via the passage of another amendment, it is completely mutable and beholden to political machinations
And the power of amendments is unlimited - you could pass one that says “this document is know defunct”
Stupid fuckin liberals
The “eNduRing vaLue oF tHe AmErIcan cOnstitUtional orDer” is called slavery you brain-dead legalist, right there in the 13th amendment, eat my poo
where does she think these values come from and how are they enforced
Back in the day people would have just been honest that they thought this stuff came down from some kind of divine entity.
When you strip the religious aspect out, it just stops making sense. You’re reduced to making vague arguments about “natural” law or tradition. They’re talking about “enduring” values here, so I guess the angle is some kind of legal darwinism - the values have survived so far so they must be good and representative of what the people actually want. Because, as we all know, values get to just compete in the free marketplace of ideas and the best ones win out, there’s never been a case of a political elite working to maintain the values that benefit them and crush the ones that don’t.
She’s smart enough to figure out what the law really is, but too idealist to accept the obvious conclusion. Slavery was legal, the holocaust was legal, segregation was legal. Poverty is legal, war is legal, capitalism is legal. Legality and morality are two completely separate concepts.
By the way these tweets illustrates my theory that all public references to “values” are complete bullshit.
no you don’t get it, slavery is one of those doctrinal values they’re talking about, for the american system it has always been the aim to limit rights to minorities to the strict minimum unless under maximum pressure, see for example the definition of cruel and unusual punishments
Sometimes I like to imagine the look on these peoples’ faces if I got to tell them I believe the constitution is illegitimate and should be abolished.
well it was written to run a slave-driven genocidal settler colonialist expansion and extraction project with power concentrated in the hands of a select few Anglo-Saxon oligarch nonces. it shouldn’t only be abolished, the 1776 constitution should be treated as a guideline on how not to organize the successor state to the US.
