If someone steals from you and your forgive them, it’s still theft. Forgiveness isn’t consent, it’s forgiveness

JP, what's the year the USA was born ?

1776?

Christ forgives your sins, he doesn’t consent to them

Yes

I’m waiting for my eye dr lol

> If someone steals from you and your forgive them, it’s still theft. Forgiveness isn’t consent, it’s forgiveness
@JPMcGlone

But the original theft was theft, because you did not consent.

Yes

You agreed with me, oppositely.

Every society is lead by an elite (small group of people) no matter if it's collectivistic or individualistic. In USA, the States that make up the USA are lead and administered by a small elite. Every societal structure is like a pyramide. You need to have an hierarchy. And hierarchy alwasys comprise less individuals than the base. Moreover. the elites live better than the average guy

Someone disagrees ?

I think you have a claim which requires some backing.

Ok. The number of people making up the Congress is 535. USA has 330 million. So the US society (in general) is administered by 535 people. You agree, @Malachi?

The whole US Govt encompasses 9 million people

“Every society is led by an elite”

No. Unless you’re saying that competency is elite

Is the UK State authority derived from Competence, or from the legitimacy of the Queen?

There hasn't been any society on this Planet whose Authority was derived from Competence.

And such a society is impossible to exist and function. It is impossible to have 50%+1 person to agree to a set of criteria that make up this "Competence"

America was that way. We lost it

We elect our government.

Even with slavery, that was actually a better arrangement for many of the slaves. I don’t think you understand how hard it was to survive back then.

Yes but we elect tyranny?

Technically you could, yes.

Hitler was elected.

But still, guys. You have so many freedoms in the US and you still say it's a Tyranny 😂

You live in the freest society Human Kind has been able to create so far. And you still fear Tyranny 😄

Our constitution is a limitation on the government. We cannot elect people to break our constitution

The amendments are clarifications, not additions

That’s not true

The 13th and 19th are clearly additions

Then it’s a takeover

Oh

I thought you said not true to something else

Cant you change that Constitution after a referendum ?

America is undergoing an obvious takeover. Many will die, it’s just unclear if it will be America that wins

Also yea, women’s right to vote came with no conditions on women even though it always came with conditions on men. Property, military, etc.

Many women of the time were against it, for good reason

A better “clarification” would have been to make it so there are a list of ways you can invest in the nation to be allowed a vote

But we’re way past that now.

Felons cannot vote. Democrats want them too though lol

JP, you regard voting as a right or an obligation ?

A privilege.