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   cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 06:09:50 JST cjd
   One of the most frustrating things about the US government is that by any sane and reasonable reading - it is almost entirely unconstitutional and it only manages to exist thanks to a tortured interpretation of the meaning of the word "Commerce".
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 06:09:45 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Torparskytt 🏴‍☠️
     On a side note, your garden is effecting the vegetable market in Vermont, so we're going to have to remove it. 🤨
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 06:09:46 JST cjd

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     • Torparskytt 🏴‍☠️
     You know it is an absolute fucking tragedy how clever:
     
     1. No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
     
     Taxes are apportioned equally to representitives
     
     2. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
     
     You can't do anything that is not explicitly written here
     
     3. No State shall [..] make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts
     
     This constitution was written to last a millennium, and by the hands of weak and servile men it was all wiped out.
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 06:09:47 JST cjd

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     • Torparskytt 🏴‍☠️
     How to stop the state from growing like cancer remains an open area of research 😭
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     Torparskytt 🏴‍☠️ (torparskytt@mastodon.nu)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 06:09:49 JST Torparskytt 🏴‍☠️

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     @cjd Got me reading up on this. That’s interesting. Even a pretty clear constitution won’t stop the state from growing like cancer. It would be very interesting to see this and other cases similar to it overturned.

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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 06:49:41 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • AmonMaritza
     It's because of this interpretation that I can't have my dream of requiring developers to plant fruit tree and other edible foliage in lieu of mere decorative trees and plants.
     
     Imagine if food was just abundant. 🤷♂️
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     AmonMaritza (amonmaritza@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 06:49:42 JST AmonMaritza

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     • Torparskytt 🏴‍☠️
     I think we need federal regulation for lemonade stands. It’s constitutional.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 07:08:58 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • AmonMaritza
     But muh markets! — FDR and his jewish friends prolly
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     AmonMaritza (amonmaritza@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 07:08:59 JST AmonMaritza

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     • Torparskytt 🏴‍☠️
     It’s sorta like communism except people are eating.
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     AmonMaritza (amonmaritza@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 07:36:08 JST AmonMaritza

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     • Torparskytt 🏴‍☠️
     wasn’t the case that a farmer couldn’t eat his own produce because it had to be accounted with his quota? it’s been a while.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 07:36:08 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • AmonMaritza
     Yes. And it was decided the way it was because FDR threatened to pack the court and likely had the political power to do it.
     
     The court folded and changed its commerce clause jurisprudence, among other changes.
     
     Unlike we were taught in school, SCOTUS is weak. The heavy focus on the civil rights era gave the people the wrong impression about the court and the scope of its power.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 07:37:39 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • AmonMaritza
     Remember, we have the 14th and 16th amendments because the court knocked down civil rights legislation and the income tax.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 07:38:24 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Torparskytt 🏴‍☠️
     • AmonMaritza
     The court actually used to be very anti-federal power.