This country was built on freedom:
- Freedom (to oppress)
- Freedom (to exploit)
- Freedom (to plunder)
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Great argument to throw away the constitution and begin anew
Since the founding fathers didn’t know about the pollution and climate threats posed by 21st-century industrial technology, they created a constitutional right to pollute.
He also said there was no constitutional right to “truthful information from officials during a public health crisis.”
Good to know, thanks.
“It’s muh gawd given yeehaw fweeedumb burger to just lie! Stop telling the government what to do you unamerican commie hippie!”
Of course you throw tantrums on how “no one tells you what to do”, you’re twelve!
Getting a lot of mileage out of this one.
Greatest country in the world btw
: “I just want a functioning society.”
: “No one owes you anything! STOP OPPRESSING ME!”
they said 
The people are represented so well by their politicians! It's a marvel how well the system works and will keep working in perpetuity!
Let them drink Coke
-AI Antoinette 
That's really backwards.
Combine this with all these data/fusion centers that are going to be redundant for their stated use consolidating local water rights into the hands of fewer and fewer development corporations. Wonder how that’ll work out as lakes and rivers continue to dry up and threaten water supplies amid climate change.
I love this country guys its really the best country there are no better countries thanks obama
It seems courts ignore the right to life, liberty, and persuit of happiness. Clean water that doesn't make you sick or dead kind of falls under that right to life.
“The Constitution does not provide redress for every governmental wrongdoing,” Engelhardt wrote.
Rather, he said residents should take other paths to redress, including electing better representatives and petitioning the government for remedies.
I can think of a path to redress that might actually solve this problem 
These are the people who swear with a straight face they believe in hell and that we should ban lgbt stuff because its sinful.
Bro, your ass is going even deeper in the lake of fire. What are you talking about?
If the voters had just voted in the kind of officials who don't cover up direct harm to their constituents then we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place. The voters made this mess so they have to clean it up.
The USA is not a federal democracy. Some states are democracies where there are accurate vote counts. Other states are not. When the federal officials come from that union, then the cheats win.
Not that it matters much; the USA is too oligarch driven to have fair campaigning, even if all the votes were counted accurately. And not much would change. Most of the same people would still be in control. Social safety nets would be few, and corruption would still increase steadily.
Only socialist revolution can fix things.
The person you replied to was being sarcastic. Hard agree on the socialist revolution part though
whoosh for me; I’m glad it was sarcasm
Tbf hexbear is kinda too ironypoisoned and insular in our culture for any kind of outside agitation/propaganda/outreach. Not that I’m any better at this, mind
I’m not good at it either. But hexbear is still a valuable resource, even if a passive one.
It reminds me of being gay in the Deep South decades ago, even insular resources were so important, even if they did not do activism
I intended for the joke to be that the judge is essentially suggesting that the solution is that the voters should trust the politicans who are trying to win their favor for sincere reasons, and not trust the ones who are secretly trying to exploit them.
