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[–] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 34 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I really struggle to understand why Americans are proud that they have never updated their constitution in 200 years. It's a bug, not a feature.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Idk if you're painfully ignorant or just lying but it's been amended 27 times.

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It is kind of lame we still haven't ratified the ERA though.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Absolutely agree

[–] mikegioia@lemmy.ml 26 points 7 months ago

This comment should win an award for its confident stupidity. Google “constitutional amendments”.

[–] Baylahoo@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As an American, same. Except for the original reason behind freedom of speech and a few other things protecting the people, we need a lot of updates. A lot of updates.

[–] mikegioia@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s been updated many times!

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
  1. And maybe that's not enough, probably it isn't, I can think of a few things I'd add. But it's hilarious to see so many people up voting actual ignorance because "USA bad". Like there's not plenty of accurate criticisms to be made.
[–] jeremyparker@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it's just my lemmy app (jerboa ftw) but I like how your post got read as a markdown list item, like this is the 27th thing you had to say on the topic but the other 26 got deleted.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Does it for me in jerboa too lol. I thought about editing it and trying to escape that but I decided I didn't care.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

It has been updated. That's what "amendments" are...updates. Here's a list.

[–] Epicmulch@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

It really scares me how many upvoted this comment has.