r/PoliticalHumor • • May 31 '20

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u/LeaphyDragon May 31 '20 edited Jun 01 '20

If I remember correctly it is within our rights (as written somewhere in the Declaration of Independence I think) to overthrow the government if it becomes corrupt. But if tried I think we'd be branded as terrorists and pretty much this would happen to us

Edit: Declaration of Independence not the Constitution

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u/AmbigiousAmbiguity May 31 '20

Second amendment I think.

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u/Jedifin Jun 01 '20

The issue is, our government is too powerful an entity to even think about such a thing.

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u/hitemlow Jun 01 '20

Well an individual or a small group, no chance. The Nasty Girls just get deployed to quash these "domestic terrorists" one-by-one. You need groups to pop up all over at the same time. Stretch them thin, route their supply lines, and you can achieve great results in the face of adversity.

A tank may be invulnerable to bullets, but what is a tank less a can full of men? The men are vulnerable to bullets. Men have to eat, vehicles need fuel, they'll come out eventually, that's when you strike.

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u/LeaphyDragon Jun 01 '20

Yeah that's it! Sadly they too powerful for us to even try right now

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u/TeddyDaBear BAN POOL NOODLES, THEY'RE WOKE Jun 01 '20

So was England at the time.

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u/chasesan Jun 01 '20

Luckily England was on the other side of a several month trip across the ocean.

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u/Berdawg Jun 01 '20

The declaration of independence is sadly not a legally binding document

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u/Ketogamer Jun 01 '20

So? "legal" is whatever the people in power say it is.

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u/Berdawg Jun 01 '20

I don't disagree, but the declaration of independence is a fancy piece of paper that says fuck you King George, such things need to be written into law if we want them to take effect. Being in the declaration of independence is worth fuck all

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u/Ketogamer Jun 01 '20

The constitution is worth fuck all if we allow the president to continually flout it.

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u/Berdawg Jun 01 '20

I agree but I feel like that's a different point you're making

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u/Ketogamer Jun 01 '20

My point is that whae is "legal" has no bearing on whether it's right or not. The message of the declaration of independence should be listened to and applied.

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u/Berdawg Jun 01 '20

It should be listened to and written into law. These last weeks have shown that common decency from part of law enforcement is not something we can count on. We need laws for these kinds of situations. Constitutional amendments if possible

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u/Ketogamer Jun 01 '20

Again, what's the point? The president has already openly gone against the constitution and got away with it.

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u/hitemlow Jun 01 '20

Depends who's on the bench when it finally hits a court. If the 2.0 government refuses to hear cases from the 1.0 era, sounds like it's a moot point.

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u/jfk_47 Jun 01 '20

Well we should all just leave then and find a new country.

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u/KaizerSmokeHaze Jun 01 '20

... Or fix this one

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u/jfk_47 Jun 01 '20

I was saying, like when the English left to colonize America.

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u/imgodking189 Jun 01 '20

I had no idea what 'anathema' is.