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SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not sure that matters too much, frogs in the US are boiling fine too. The constitution can be brushed aside just as easily.

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  • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can verify : am frog

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    • ewo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      One frog may feel powerless but many frogs together strong.

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      • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We have an anthem too!

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s just because the R’s expressly don’t care about constitutionality. If the UK had a written constitution, both parties are still at a level of integrity that they’d want to (at least appear to) be keeping it, so a judicial challenge to these terrorist acts might have actually struck them down.

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    • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s still a judicial challenge happening. And just because the UK doesn’t have written constitution doesn’t mean there’s no constitution at all. Most of it is even written down, just not in one place.

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      • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Hmm true, there is the ECHR. But it is implemented into british law in such a way that there’s nothing stopping laws being passed which are incompatible with it. Whereas with the US and other constitutions you have judicial review.

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    • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The Democrats don’t care about the Constitution either. Their platform certainly isn’t filled with promises to say, repeal the post 9/11 mass surveillance laws. They have zero interest in curtailing the powers of an out-of-control presidency; they just want those powers for themselves.

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      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s because they lose their bargaining chips for elections, also being wealthy , that why they don’t reverse the tax cuts with the next preisdent

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