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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 165 points 1 day ago (51 children)

Remember folks. Fascism has never, ever been put down using words.

Arm yourselves. Help others arm themselves. Train with them and form networks.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 28 points 1 day ago (5 children)

As an European, I want Americans to fight against fascism, at the same time, it sounds like it would require civil war, and if that happens, then the sharks circling around US would use that opportunity to make some moves. This whole thing makes me uneasy. Y'all need to be smart about this.

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[–] DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Dont forget to buy lots of ammo. Guns dont do much without ammo.

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[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 112 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're not deleting it to say it doesn't exist, they're deleting it to prevent people from looking up their rights.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can you explain the difference between? I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make.

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

A lot of people I've seen online are acting like this is them trying to erase it completely. If they wanted to they wouldn't just change a website. I'm not saying that they won't, just that this is more about the suppression of information and that people should probably look this kinda shit up before it's gone. Get yourself a copy of the constitution in one of those neat little books your teachers always had if need be.

All I'm saying is that people are acting like changing a website changes the laws of the US. And I think that we should all brush up on our rights before the resources online become unreliable. That way when they try and break the law you can say it loudly that what they are doing is illegal and call them out in front of everyone. The justice system has always been notorious for punishing those that don't know their rights. It's why they literally had to force cops to tell you your rights when they arrest you, which they are currently not doing. Protect yourself because nobody in the system will have your interests in mind.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Changing an official government website, while inconsequential as far as rights are concerned, signals something much more than just suppressing information.

It means they are actively taking steps to rewrite history. To change how people see the government. Because if the people in charge think so little to update the site, the people in charge have much more sinister plans than to just update the website.

The law exists only as much as it is enforced.

They are clearly saying they will not enforce habeas corpus.

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[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 101 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Ironic, since the writ of Habeas corpus predates even the Magna Carta.

Habeas corpus goes back to around 1166, which for those keeping track, is only around 600 years before the founding of the USA…

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 64 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The US was founded on ostensibly three major legal ideas.

Habeus Corpus.
Due Process.
The Magna Carta.

We don't seem to currently have any of the three.

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[–] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I find it so strange how proud Americans are of their constitution, which was copied largely from British laws; who kinda shat on this part of their history…

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 70 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This won’t make me forget about Epstein, dumbass.

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

From George Orwell's Animal Farm:

"My sight is failing," [Clover] said finally. "Even when I was young I could not have read what was written there. But it appears to me that that wall looks different. Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be, Benjamin?"

For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran:

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damn that hits so close to home now.

[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

wow almost as if the very obvious story about authoritarianism accurately described authoritarianism. who could have known?

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] mateofeo85@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Whoever told you that is your enemy.

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[–] Ltann0607@endlesstalk.org 37 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They're making up the law as they need it. Trump is history. He's the ultimate loser. He's a convicted felon and an unregistered sex offender.

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[–] F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 33 points 23 hours ago (8 children)

You people really need to use that 2nd amendment

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 26 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (6 children)

What's going on right now is actually a fantastic example of why this whole "people can have guns to overthrow a tyrant!" has been nothing more than a delusion used to justify having a gun fetish. It's 2025. Your gun will do absolutely nothing against the literal trillion dollars of annual spending you've approved for your own military and intelligence agencies.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

I think it would make a difference. You saw how fast Elon started using his kid as a shield and others basically stayed off the streets after UH CEO got lit up. They'd be VERY scared if an unknown person started knocking them off, maybe 1 a month for a year, I think it'd send a VERY clear message. Especially if it's released why they got popped. Behavior would change quick.

The only reason we have shitty people make terrible, illegal decisions right now is because no one is holding them accountable. A .308 round would change that shit quick fast in a hurry.

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

The ones that cry the hardest about their second amendment are the ones that voted for this. The ones that want tyranny, because being tyrannical is OK so long as it's against those whiney losers you oppose.

The ones that want the second amendment are the ones that are so uintelligent and insecure that they need to buy a gun, or multiple guns.

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[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

My concern is that if we were to exercise our 2nd amendment rights to eliminate this totalitarian regime and then install a proper democratically-elected progressive administration, what’s to stop the Fox News types from riling up the MAGA masses into “taking back” the government and eliminating our new regime? Violence begets violence. There has to be a better way.

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[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (4 children)

For all you youngn’s, even if parts of the US constitution is removed from the random government entity’s website—it’s still available in many MANY forms. So like. Don’t think this means anything other than making things about as hard to access as they were like 15 years ago (which is to say not that hard).

Just cause a government website doesn’t have some information does not mean that laws have or have not changed.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Please explain any reason why the parts that the regime in the US specifically detests and have stated multiple times are not true would be removed due to a "data issue".

Please explain how one can request a court apperance after being dissapeared by a paramilitary group with alegence to the regime that's better funded than the Russian millitary, when the library of Congress does not have a section on due process.

Please explain when the president declares that the country is being invaded and anyone he deems subversive is now labeled a terrorist enemy of the state, how one can request their rights when the parts of the Constitution no longer say that only Congress has the power to say the country is being invaded?

This is not just some random government site. This is the library of Congress. This is the first result of the word "Constitution" on every major internet search engine.

This is not a slippery slope, this is a drop into a camouflaged pitfall onto sharpened stakes covered in shit.

This was a test to see if we would notice, if we would care or be indifferent, if we would speak up.

I doubt there will be a formal explanation or investigation that will explain any of this to any degree out side of "opps, it was just a technical error" as if it could be an honest mistake to delete specific parts of a document which never has anything ever removed from it, only ever amended.

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[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago

This isn't about making it harder to access your rights. It's signalling what rights you've lost. Who can advocate for your freedoms when the highest courts follow this new doctrine?

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[–] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Trump is doing anything to keep everyone from talking about Epstein.

It's working fuck this news.

[–] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Other way around. They're using Epstein to distract everyone from everything they're doing.

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[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Well if this isn't a reason to use your second amendment what the fuck is

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[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (5 children)

America doesn't just have a constitution. It is created by the Constitution. They are deleting America and patriots are cheering it on.

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 19 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Habeas corpus was a fundamental right in English speaking countries going back to the Magna fucking Carta. It is incredible how fast everything is falling apart.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago
[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago

Somebody needs to do it. The entire executive branch.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 13 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

and Americans once again will bravely sit down and take it

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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So where are the brave gun owning defenders of freedom and liberty I keep hearing so much about?

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

What a time to be alive.

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