• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Next up - women are no longer allowed to open bank accounts without the permission of their husband.

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      Hmm, would I, a trans woman, be allowed to open one because they insist I’m a man? Assuming they haven’t already made my existence illegal by that point

    • Banana@sh.itjust.works
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      Nah see I don’t think that’d ever happen. The banks have too much stake in women continuing to hold bank accounts so they can poach their debt. Capitalism wouldn’t allow it.

  • WhatIsThePointAnyway@lemmy.world
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    It is shocking how well they manipulate people with religion, pseudo masculinity, and culture wars. They literally gave no coherent policy proposals.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    Roe V Wade was a big one but let’s not pretend SCOTUS was doing us any favors before.

    • Qualified Immunity
    • Free Speech Zones
    • Your employer controls your religious rights
    • No effective 4th amendment rights
    • No right to jury in lower trials that still involve jail time
    • Court appointed lawyers are a sham
    • Miranda rights don’t exist anymore
    • The police can move into your house
    • Double trials have become common
    • Excessive bail and fines are part of the system
    • Corporate money has more political speech than you do
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        That’s exactly why it’s on the list. The courts have held that police are not soldiers and thus it does not apply to them. Completely ignoring the fact that police did not exist in 1792 and policing was done by soldiers.

        So if the police wanted to say, take over your house to gain a vantage point against your neighbor, (Henderson, NV, 2013) you wouldn’t have any recourse under the 3rd amendment.

        I guess we should be happy they aren’t just seizing houses under Civil Asset Forfeiture…

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      Illegally deciding the election in 2000 instead of directing FL counties to perform their recounts with a unified process.

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    Half a century feels optimistic. I get the feeling you’ll be lucky to keep most of the Constitution intact. (Except for the 2nd amendment, but then probably only for a certain class of people.)

    I genuinely fear for y’all, and for my country as your neighbor. I’m starting to feel suspiciously like an Austrian or Czech person in the 1930s.