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RE: The Absurd GOP
August 22, 2025 at 8:53 am
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The legal right to revoke ratification, and the good ole extralegal (or natural, if we prefer) right of revolution the country was created by. That's what that line is based on, though it might not be a satisfying answer to the rhetorical question.
The matter wasn't settled until after the war, in 1869. Both things ruled unconstitutional, obvs.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
August 22, 2025 at 9:36 am
(August 22, 2025 at 4:50 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: When very stupid people make the claim that the Civil War wasn't about slavery, but about state's rights, I've found it very useful to ask them, 'State's rights to do WHAT, exactly?'
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Those same dolts are most often unaware that the Confederate constitution directly and explicitly forbade member states from outlawing slavery or harboring fugitive slaves. In other words, states had no right to decide slavery for themselves.
States' rights. *snort*
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RE: The Absurd GOP
August 22, 2025 at 1:20 pm
That fact no longer exists. It has been replaced by the inspirational stories from the Ministry of Truth and all contrary "facts" have been tossed in the memory hole. Now tune to Fox for the two minutes hate.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
August 26, 2025 at 6:08 am
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Former Arizona State Representative Eric Descheenie has joined the race for the US House. Arizona Republicans are claiming that Descheenie may be an illegal immigrant. He's a member of the Navajo Nation.
Let that level of stupid sink in for a moment.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
August 26, 2025 at 10:04 pm
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: The Absurd GOP
August 26, 2025 at 11:37 pm
Putting pressure on Congresscritters is probably the last nonviolent avenue of blockage, and even that is questionable, because it assumes those legislators will actually listen.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
August 27, 2025 at 9:59 pm
So, the Kilmar Abrego Garcia has a new, ridiculous twist. Apparently, the Trump administration is giving him a really fucked up choice:
A) Plead guilty to human trafficking charges and get deported to Costa Rica.
B) Don't plead out and get deported to Uganda. A country he has zero ties with, and no guarantees of safety.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
August 27, 2025 at 10:53 pm
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: The Absurd GOP
August 28, 2025 at 11:08 am
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