Ok, to be additionally specific…it takes 2/3rds in both the House and Senate or it takes a Constitutional convention, where 2/3rds of the state legislatures are needed to propose an amendment, and 3/4 of them need to ratify it. So, you are correct on the 3/4, if they go the convention route. I was really only thinking about Congress when I wrote that.
Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms would get a zero. There’s the “Notwithstanding Clause” that effectively nullifies the entire document at the discretion of any provincial government that wants to violate the Charter. The entire thing is basically meaningless with that loophole in place.
Lowering the threshold for amendments would actually weaken the Constitution, not make it stronger.
Imagine if they just kept flip-flopping back and forth on abortion or citizenship status every 8 years, at a Constitutional level. Every federal rule and regulation that Congress tried to implement based on current law, would have to be renegotiated every time an amendment was altered. The federal government would be locked into a permanent state of revisement, and literally nothing else would get done, as long as those basic issues remained permanently unsettled. Not to mention, people’s lives would be constantly fluctuating between opposing statuses.
The harder it is to make amendments to the law, the more stable the society becomes. Once something is codified into the Constitution, it should be extremely difficult to reverse. 2/3rds is actually a very reasonable majority under the circumstances. Less would be too easy…and more would be virtually unachievable.
I don’t think you fully appreciate what it’s like to grow up with boomers for parents. Your generation can basically ignore them, without any direct interaction. All you lose, is a birthday card. We grew up with them in our face, every single day. You can’t argue with these people. All you can do, is stare at them like they’re fucking idiots…because they are. Confronting them, is next to impossible, unless you are prepared to go to war over the stupidest shit imaginable.
This isn’t our “social deficiency”. It’s theirs. We grew up with no way of communicating with a generation of Karens, other than deliberate non-engagement.
Nah. The “Gen Z stare” is the blank-faced look we give people that we think are idiots. It’s not that we lack self-awareness…it’s you. Gen Z doesn’t tolerate stupid. We just can’t be bothered to call you out on it, because that’s drama we don’t need. So we just stare at you, instead.
When all you are is racist, everyone looks like a Mexican.
This should be the bare minimum response from everyone. If you can’t even clear this bar…you should not be allowed to participate.
The amount of money they would need to print in order to pay it back, would cause the kind of inflation that bankrupts a country.
I challenge you to simply sit there and watch your toes curl. It actually stops hurting if you can just relax and let it happen.
Ok. Yup. I sincerely apologize for the sarcasm. There is absolutely nothing wrong with your sense of cleanliness.
In all seriousness, I was even going to suggest that maybe occasionally washing the garbage can itself might make you feel better, but…I don’t think that would help.
May I suggest fire, instead? Just some good ol’ gasoline and a match?
What kind of toxic waste are you putting in your home trash can? Do you put dirty diapers in it? Raw meat? Dead animals?
If it was a dumpster sitting in the back alley behind a brothel…yeah, casual contact may be hazardous to your health. But, if it’s just the run-of-the-mill household trash, then it’s relatively harmless.
This is exactly the opposite of what I want a graphics card doing in the background. Just leave the games the way the developers made them, for fucks sake. If they suck, they suck…if they don’t, they don’t. But this just makes them all suck.
Less than that. They’d have to sell this particular gas at a discount, considering it would be radioactive after making this detour.
There’s no way this is real.
Donald Trump Jr. is also connected to multiple defense-tech ventures. He sits on the board of drone component company Unusual Machines. Forbes reported, “Unusual Machines is at least the second company that appears to have activated an advisory board specifically to give Trump a role” and “granting him shares worth millions—then announcing at least $15.2 million in military-linked orders, including a direct U.S. Army buy.”
What the actual fuck?
I heard they bounce.
Yup. That all checks out.
I absolutely love the fact that all these companies are laying the legal groundwork to destroy intellectual property rights altogether. If they win enough of these cases, then every pirate on the open seas sails under a flag of amnesty.
True, but…it can be used to negate all of your personal freedoms and legal rights, so…close enough.