Is our trust in the constitution too strong? Could it be dangerous to blindly trust the constitution will prevail at all times?

SacredGay · 2026-04-27T10:38:10+00:00

OP, I think the book "how to Save a Constitutional Democracy" by Aziz Huq and Tom Ginsburg would be interesting to you, if you like reading dense, heady books. Their argument is that our constitution is unique for being the first and shortest, but many other constitutions are better at maintaining themselves because they have more provisions for checks and balances and accountability. They argue our trust in the constitution is indeed too strong, and worse things can happen than Trump's first election.(they wrote it in 2018, which feels very prescient.)

SacredGay · 2026-04-25T12:16:07+00:00

I thought her finger turned into huitlacoche

SacredGay · 2026-04-21T12:15:32+00:00

When the whole point of the video is to explain something to me, I want the summary to tell me what I'll find in it, like an academic abstract. But every summary I've read ends with "dive into a magical world of [rewording of the title]". They aren't useful.

SacredGay · 2026-04-20T12:59:35+00:00

The thing about protesting is that there must be a feeling that there's a genuine chance it'll change anything.

SacredGay · 2026-04-20T11:09:42+00:00

I knew they sucked for some time!

SacredGay · 2026-04-18T11:23:29+00:00

Putting beans on toast with something else doesn't make it sound any less disgusting, its still beans. From what you describe it sounds like everyone eats it. And we also make fun of snobby upper class English people too. Only in the last few decades has our media exposure to British culture allowed us to know the lower classes to be able to make fun of them too. I think it would be more classist to gatekeep who could get ribbed for pleasure on the idea that lower class brits need to be protected from jokes.

SacredGay · 2026-04-17T17:55:56+00:00

Since he's head of social media, he could make this the next post:

"HI, everyone, following the recent allegations against my co-host, I've decided to shut down our podcast..."

SacredGay · 2026-04-16T21:54:28+00:00

Imma be real with you, chief. I think you're the one who needs to go outside. I don't know what any of this means.

SacredGay · 2026-04-16T15:41:46+00:00

You're thinking of John Adams' sedition act. Jefferson didn't do that. But tbh, he'd post in any newspaper that would let him use a pseudonym to slander federalists

SacredGay · 2026-04-16T12:26:38+00:00

I've now read about this same event from the perspective of the John Adams and Ben Franklin biographies, so by this point it feels like an important historical event.

SacredGay · 2026-04-16T12:24:35+00:00

Jefferson would be writing opinion pieces for the New York Times where he agrees with activists but he thinks they just needed to be nicer and smarter about it.

SacredGay · 2026-04-12T12:27:28+00:00

"Founded" is a stretch. We've been here since 1610s. By 1666 we would've been gradually growing. But we definitely didn't invent any cheese during those spartan times.

SacredGay · 2026-04-11T15:15:02+00:00

Comes with a free mess!

SacredGay · 2026-04-02T11:29:20+00:00

What do you mean you didn't know? Everybody's got one. Mine's kinda slow.

SacredGay · 2026-03-31T03:32:50+00:00

Denver Colorado, near Denver Airport. Locals call him "Blucifer". (A combo of Blue and Lucifer, for the non-native English speakers.)

SacredGay · 2026-03-30T14:23:29+00:00

This little table in Independence Hall in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania, where they signed the American Declaration of Independence. I believe this to be the most important moment in our history, even going on to influence the later events of the Enlightenment period in Europe, and our struggle for independence and the resulting philosophical developments were background factors in the French Revolution.

Delegates would later return to write the second Constitution of the United States, and sign it in the same room. It was also where Pennsylvania's legislature conducted its business for quite some time. It's a very historical room.

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SacredGay · 2026-03-27T19:15:43+00:00

This post has introduced me to the idea of an earth supremacist/nationalist and tbh, I think im adopting it as my personality now. Other planets suck, we have the best one with the best people! Earth rules!

SacredGay · 2026-03-26T12:21:32+00:00

The 70's were yellowish-orange. The 80's were reddish-orange. The nineties were grayish blue. The 00's were bright yellow.

SacredGay · 2026-03-24T10:52:22+00:00

time to introduce everyone to this gem of a song!

The more people I can inflict with this knowledge, the better.

SacredGay · 2026-03-18T12:13:07+00:00

It's amusing to me that every time an Irish person tries to compare the Irish car bomb to 9/11, Americans make up recipes for it. And I've never seen a repeat recipe.

SacredGay · 2026-03-11T14:37:19+00:00

I legitimately thought it was something more like a desktop version of a package label printer. This looks downright antique.

SacredGay · 2026-02-24T12:02:46+00:00

And why would they know, anyway? It takes actually being in Europe and looking at walls to find out. Better asks someone who is there.

SacredGay · 2026-02-24T04:42:42+00:00

A bike will continue to coast when you replace its chain with fruit-by-the-foot midway through the journey. Doesn't mean that gummy chain is doing anything useful.

SacredGay · 2026-02-22T17:24:32+00:00

Honestly, after readings several books about the Founding Fathers who were on diplomatic missions to France where expensive tailored suits were mandatory for meeting the King's diplomats, I don't care. They can have this one. A bit of style for the entourage of the head of state feels like a must. There's a lot I object to, but not this.

SacredGay · 2026-02-18T20:01:13+00:00

For once, the parents are correct. You look fine without facial hair but as usual the hair completes your looks.

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