• InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      I can’t believe that in 2026 when the constitution has shown to be a defective document that should have been replaced many decades ago - there’s still a bizarro world veneration of the fucking thing.

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        American Civil Religion theory stays winning. We propagandized ourselves about the Constitution so hard a lot of us worship the thing instead of viewing it as a legal document subject to change.

  • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    putting legal text on a common item to increase people’s legal literacy

    not a terrible premise

    this will make young people think that patriotism is good

    lmao not a chance

    If you want young people to like this country you have to overhaul the country to actually work for young people.

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    For service members stationed overseas, a dollar bill bearing the Bill of Rights would serve as a reminder of the ideals for which they are willing to give their lives. It would also signal to others that American power is rooted not only in military strength, but also in the principles of liberty and law.

    looking at my dollar bill as I bomb an elementary school twice in a row, thinking about my sacred 8th Amendment right to avoid cruel or unusual punishment

  • LocalOaf [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    This guy has the same view of political consciousness as “nobody wants to work anymore” boomers who tell you “just put on a nice suit and walk up and shake the boss’s hand and ask for a job” do about the economy michael-laugh

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      The dominance of chuddery, and this insistence on “reclaiming America’s innocence” (as if that isn’t the most oxymoronic statement in existence.)

      Everyone is so proud of the fact no one has an original thought and no one wants to do anything original. Just we all have to LARP as the days when baby boomers were kids.

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    The proposal: that Congress place an abridged version of the Constitution on U.S. currency.

    Okay so do this, but abridge it so it’s only the least interesting passages. Shit like “Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.”

  • TrustedFeline [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Obviously fuck the consititution and America, but I actually love the idea of microprinting whole documents on money. t would be dope if China copied this idea and printed the constitution on one bill, mao’s red book on another, etc.

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      I think the practical way to do it would be to break the Constitution up into passages and print random ones on each dollar. Over time people will read them all.

      But in the article he pretty much spells it out that the goal here isn’t to get people to read the Constitution and understand their rights, it’s to create some kind of sense of nationalism and unity, which is lmao you’re just replacing the picture of the White House with a picture of a piece of paper that’s not gonna happen.