Because that’s exactly what it is. It’s a way for the rich to force the policies they want while quelching any policies they don’t.

I’ll never understand how lobbying became a thing. It should have been shut down as anti democracy the second it was proposed

No but the amount of people practically shitting themselves over someone’s social anxiety about phone calls is a little overdramatic.

This is something that idk if I’ll ever get used to about lemmy

It’s a meme. It’s a joke. It’s deliberately blown out of proportion.

Y’all need to calm tf down.

Yeah but as an American I’m the one that has to deal with the smell long after the sandwich is gone

I get not wanting to see it everywhere but you also have to understand that this is really world news. This is a central figure in American politics that is actually going to trial for an attempt to overthrow American democracy.

This is a historical moment that will probably be talked about for decades regardless of which direction it goes.

You know what I’m gonna start posting about Trump even harder

Also just plain no. Americans have been waiting for this for the past few years and it’s fucking cathartic

I DON’T NEED TO BE/ACT HAPPY TO GET MY JOB DONE

That and they were used with a massive shield that was generally meant to be used in a phalanx.

Spearmen/pikemen directly behind the shield wall and if they get past the spears/pikes there’s a wall of shields and gladii to deal with

Not like it’ll do them any good. In fact it might make more people defect after seeing they were lied to about the rest of the world.

I’m my experience it’ll just hang up

For the pure sake of knowledge…removed?

T word?

As someone who’s wondered this myself but only now found the enthusiasm to look it up because I can’t be arsed to do anything for myself but this is what Wikipedia says:

“Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to communists who express support for one-party communist states that are associated with Marxism–Leninism, whether contemporary or historical.”

Take it with a grain of salt tho people misuse labels like this all the time

So 27’s the magical limit? You think the people who were around when the 14th amendment was added didn’t spew the same bullshit?

Rules always need to be updated or else we’d still be adhering to the fucking middle ages and still have slavery and kings.

He’s not wrong. Look at the amendment that banned alcohol. It was repealed through another amendment.

The Constitution is meant to be updated and changed with modern times. What he’s meaning to say is that despite Republicans (who don’t even understand the fucking document) believing the Constitution is set in stone, it’s actually meant to be changed regularly.

Bro it’s really not that hard to figure out.

He’s currently 22

The last women he dated when he was 16 was 21

I train in swordfighting. It’s good exercise and trains hand eye coordination as well as good balance.

The funniest part is it’s actually helped me a lot in my day to day because I know how to move my body

Meanwhile

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Americans write the date the way we would say it. August 9th 2023.