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President Trump floats regime change in Iran as calls for impeachment grow in response to U.S. strikes on Iran.

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[–] Grumpyleb@lemmus.org 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Exactly why I said the political system has collapsed.

[–] Packet@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, it works as intended. It was all meant to be like this from the start

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Not exactly. If it worked as it was intended to back in ye Olde days, nobody but white male landlords would be able to vote. Honestly we'd probably be a thousand times worse off if that was the case lmao

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Our constitution has the 3/5th compromise because our country has literally always been set up for oligarchs

[–] Grumpyleb@lemmus.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep, hopefully if you survive Trump you'll need to overhaul your entire system to prevent a repeat, that's a big if...

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah. We need to throw out the constitution and start over imo. The Supreme Court being weaponized by the far right has basically made this government unsalvageable. Not that that will happen

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

Other countries have rewritten their constitutional documents to modernize them. Can’t do that here, because it’s sacred. Sigh.

[–] Grumpyleb@lemmus.org 1 points 1 month ago

Honestly good luck with that.