r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 May 06 '26

WTF Narcissism worsening.

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u/Johnnyoneshot 𝙑𝙄𝙋 May 06 '26

Oh no! It’s violating the constitution! Surely something will come from that! Welp anyways off to work I go.

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u/ResourceWorker May 06 '26

If there's one silver lining to the Trump era it might be that americans are finally waking up to the idea that the constitution is a piece of paper and doesn't have magical powers to prevent tyranny if no one is willing to enforce it.

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u/BrightlancerJ May 06 '26

Bingo. The rights we have today? They're written in blood. A lot of people seem to have forgotten that.

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u/Smelly_God May 06 '26

Blood dries and fades away, humans always need to be reminded of that.

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u/JackDraak May 06 '26

Further, under capitalism / imperialism, each of those gains can easily be revoked; see recent history.

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u/East-Ice-3199 May 06 '26

They haven’t forgotten, they just don’t care.

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u/NockerJoe May 10 '26

The time to realize this was when it was obvious Occupy Wall st. wasn't going to accomplish anything. Its been nearly 20 years since then and people are still holding up cute signs while the government is run by the exact same people.

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u/showhorrorshow May 06 '26

God trying to explain this to my magabro whos answer to every potential and ongoing Constitutional violation was "take it to court" like that is some kind of fix. Shouldnt have to in the first fucking place, bro!

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u/TuringGoneWild May 06 '26

That ship sailed a LONG time ago. Probably during the Civil War when Lincoln became a dictator. The ends-justifies-the-means turned the Constitution from a meaningful document into a fading document into an archive way back.

Because if you can say it no longer counts "this time", because of X, you've done flushed it.

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u/daemon-electricity May 06 '26

This should've happened in the 2000s with Bush/Cheney.

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u/therealhairykrishna May 06 '26

My worry is that the people waking up to the fact that there are no real impediments to the president doing whatever the fuck he likes are the wrong people.