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as soon as we get ranked choice voting i’m starting a party whose whole platform is to shred the constitution and rewrite it every eight years. (open to suggestions on this timeline this part is mostly sarcasm)
what the heck is the purpose of license plates if not to be read so as to identify and prevent driving hazards?
here’s a hint: the constitution says nothing about license plates. (it also says absolutely nothing about assault rifles and other massively deadly weapons, coincidentally.) making appeals to this ancient ass document like it’s holy scripture is almost as cringe as referencing literal religious scripture when writing policy.
“but license plate readers are an infringement on my privacy—“ you know what else is an infringement? fucking cops who can read your plates, pull you over, and potentially fucken kill you because you didn’t perfectly perform the authoritarian script we impose on drivers in an already uniquely stressful situation, something that happens, especially when you happen to be a person of color. the cool thing about cameras is they don’t kill.
i want safe roads with safe drivers that kill fewer people per year. i want cops that interact with fewer people so fewer state-sponsored hate crimes happen. to that end, i’d take in any universe some cameras that can see my license plates and fine me over the authoritarian residing army we have in our streets today.
the constitution can eat dirt.
8 years seems too frequent.
I could totally get behind something in the range of a 30-60 year revision requirement.
fair enough. better than waiting centuries and still having slavery codified 150 years after we did a whole civil war about things.
Jefferson wrote in a letter at the time that each new generation has a right to choose for itself “the form of government it believes most promotive of its own happiness.” That every 20 years, the constitution should be handed off to the next generation to amend and repair as they see fit.
yes, exactly what i am referencing :)