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[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 50 points 9 months ago

i thought these people went to expensive schools why the fuck does every line start with WHEREAS fucking hell

[-] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 44 points 9 months ago

Linguistic inertia. The evil rich white dudes who wrote the sacred texts used language that way so now congress has to until the end of this cursed nation.

[-] fox@hexbear.net 30 points 9 months ago

That's just how governments do resolutions typically. Tradition or some shit

[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

The CPC's refusal to legislate using classical Chinese infuriates me.

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

Why? Really stupid thing to get mad about

[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

I'm mostly joking. The move to more plain language happened under the RoC. It'd be pretty funny if they undid it as a fuck u tho.

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago

Most of them really didn't, a decent minority of the House didn't go to college at all. I looked up the guy who sponsored this resolution and he has a bachelors degree from a college with a 75% acceptance rate