Half the laws Congress makes shouldn't pass constitutional muster without amending the powers of Congress.

I know it's a pipe dream but I would welcome a true populist dictator at this point. These problems are very time-sensitive

Government at most abstract level is a collective action problem which distributive ledger solves

@sigruna14 Here’s the thing about The Constitution, however. It’s not a “restrictive” document when it comes to authority it grants the government. It’s “permissive.” It tells the government what it has the authority to do. If it’s not a power granted by The Constitution, in writing, it’s not a power granted by omission.

CPAC is so dull
Check out @ahardtospell’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/ahardtospell/status/1100834951166115846?s=09

@sigruna14 True, but I'm talking *deep* decentralization (referenda, recalls, and the return to a non-federally coopted system of local collective defense).

@Phillip Wiglesworth - FL too bad all real power is vested in SCOTUS. Worst oversight by founders tbh

@Phillip Wiglesworth - FL Tenth Amendment says the states can do anything other than what the Constitution explicitly says they can't or reserves for Congress.

Constitution is kinda dead. What matters is SCOTUS precedent

Have we tried turning America off, waiting 10 seconds, and turning it back on again? I hear that fixes most things

@sigruna14 The States. Not “The Government”, as in Federal. The States must then have their own individual Constitution. And same rules apply there: they cannot grant themselves power by omission

States can constitutionally do anyting not explicitly forbidden

Or that SCOTUS has not forbidden since SCOTUS is as powerful as constitution

Let our ranks swell. It seems to be our only hope.

Article 1 Section 8 should be amended to remove the "general welfare" clause and move the ability to lay taxes to the end of the section and add the condition that taxes may only be raised directly to fund one of the foregoing powers.

That would, in theory, make a lot of federal overreach a lot harder. They'd have to amend the Constitution every time they wanted to pass some new law.

One day the Millennials will be in the Supreme Court.

God save us all.

Tbh i think USG is a dead horse. Real power was always in media and finance. We need to focus on building our financial and information network.

Money and information can sway a monarcy, much more a democracy

We just need to convince Elon Musk to build us a Starship. I'm telling you.

I'm half kidding but sort of not

@Perihelion - CA the states doing whatever they wanted, not expressly permitted or restricted by the constitution is what started the civil war. Lincoln won that argument. “No, you can’t. And we’ll stop it.”

So trve

Yeah he stopped it but only proved constitution was dead paper

Agreed

Parrallel society powered by distributed ledger is an intriguing assymtric strategy.

The basic law of war is never play the game your enemy wants to play

Side stepping the whole tangle by building disitributed institutions is one possible solution

Any time your enemy achieves hegemony completely change the game

"Donald Trump was running for president as a publicity stunt and never planned on winning the election"

"Donald Trump colluded with Russia in order to win the election."

Jussie Smollett scriptwriter confirmed 😂🤣😂

Second one is the one i meant to link but first one is good read too

In past wars were over concrete resources. Now culture wars are over abstract values and virtual spaces.

Systematic trolling is an example of neo-barbarism

By constantly changing strategies we can raise cost of maintaining their system toward infinity until theyre forced to abandon their core values

Or we can establish hegemony over a new domain and force them to fight on our prepared terrain

He didn’t want to win at all, but he colluded to ensure he’d win ☺️

Can you all guess who this famous Irishman is?

Dat nero. He gud boi. He didn du nuffin