Yes. See: Corwin Amendment. They tried to do that.
Edit: That leads me to believe there may been more than one reason for secession, but you can look into that for yourself.
Okay, I’ll concede that they tried. It seems the southern states rejected it. I’ll look into the history on that.
I’ve learned that libertarians fold into far-right republicans faster than Superman on laundry day
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Umm…what? You judge American males based on…the kids from high school drama class being boyish and effeminate? I’d imagine most normal teens still have different words to describe those guys, but I’m not going to use them on an internet message board. I don’t think they are a good representation of what is typical(that’s a good clue as to what one of those terms used to be).
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Not really. I mean it’s still used, but it’s not typical. The vast majority of teens now are incredibly accepting on the whole and don’t really give a shit about old terms you’re using nor do they think being into drama isn’t normal. On the whole teens don’t really give a shit anymore if kids are into drama, call of duty, or athletes. They are much more “who cares what anyone does” than most people who haven’t been in high schools a lot could ever imagine.
Again do some judge and use that term? Sure. But even in the rural schools that I did redesigns in and taught that’s pretty outdated thinking and has been for a while. The 80’s and 90’s films with the jocks, geeks, cheerleaders just ain’t what it’s like.
Those “normal” teens whatever that means hang out with the drama kids. The athletes talk to other kids about marvel movies and play Apex Legends or Fortnite with them. And they think the creative ones making cool YouTube videos and Tik Toks are neat.
School test scores?
It doesn’t change the fact they were willing to kill and die to preserve slavery. The fact they would later take advantage, like shady rat fucks, of an opportunity to end the reconstruction early shows just how invested they were in maintaining a racist society.
When I started this thread, I never thought it would go all way back to the Civil War. I was worried about our local and state politicians over stepping their bounds and imposing restrictions on whatever they feel necessary. There are several examples that worry me:
The Michigan governor stating that buying seeds for you garden or paint for your house is non-essential or the New Jersey governor stating that he was not “thinking about the Bill of Rights” when he imposed his rules, or the authorities in North Carolina arresting a woman for protesting, “Protesting is a nonessential activity” in Raleigh, North Carolina. Are you fucking kidding me?
In due fairness, probably each one of these decisions were undertaken with good intentions, but, as you know that is going down a road straight to hell. Here is a personal example of what can happen:
Two days ago I decided not to drive to my local park and ruck instead, it is only about four miles from my house and has a bridge over a beautiful river. Workout in the park, 8 mile walk, definitely would earn a beer upon arriving back home. I got my backpack, some nuts, water, bands and left. As I was crossing the bridge a local patrol unit stopped beside me and asked me where I was going. I said, walking to the park. The deputy told me you could only drive to parks, not walk. What? He told me the sheriff did not want anyone walking the county roads.
Now, I know he was only trying to do what he was told, but, this was way outside the boundary. He asked me what I had in my pack. I said water, nuts, and my badge and gun. I showed him my id and he left after saying the sheriff did not like feds. Well, fuck his sheriff.
Now here is the question: If I had not had the badge was I going to be arrested for walking on a rural road in America? This is the kind of misguided guidelines I am worried about and you should be too.
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Depends on the cop. If reasonable no, if following rules blindly, then yes. Maybe not arrested, but ticketed.
A rule or law should have good reasons as to why it exists. If they do not, I feel no obligation to follow them. I do try not to get caught, and if the penalty is high enough I will avoid the activity.
For example, I have been ignoring left hand turn stop light signals. The roads are pretty empty where I am. I stop look for a cop (the avoiding the penalty part), and go if no cop is present. I don’t feel guilty at all as the rule has no reason to exist with the roads as empty as they are.
I am also not supposed to have a fire pit in my back yard. I assume this is due to some people being idiots. I make small fires (2 feet in diameter, which get put out after), and don’t feel bad about it.
I don’t see any way that if they take this to any court that they don’t have the ticket dropped. It still sucks that someone has to spend a half a day defending an obvious constitutional right.
Protesting ought to be rock bottom undoable. I saw this story in CNN and wonder how they can be serious about holding a protest:
Well, I think one would be stupid to protest right now. I also don’t see a way around not letting them exercise their first amendment right. If a law is in obvious conflict with the constitution, the constitution wins. This is an example of obvious conflict. If the conflict is not so obvious, then court cases occur, and can escalate to the supreme court.
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
It’s within the Bill of Rights, so your argument holds no weight. You could argue they are ignoring social distancing and all that garbage, but the Bill of Rights protects them.
We should just suspend the BoR while this national emergency is going and/or a mandatory vaccine is administered. These fucking peasants are just making things worse. It’s for our own good.
Sarcasm I hope?
No way, dude. Serf like us need to re-learn our place.
(Yes, it’s sarcasm).
Hahahahaha, I thought so.
You’d be surprised:
Easy, just be a Native American protesting oil spills on your land. You’ll be shut down before even starting 
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That being said, now is definitely not the time to gather in large groups.
Why aren’t Native Americans simply called Americans? I mean, everybody else immigrated into the country at some later point…
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On February 29 I went to a fundraiser for the We’tsewet’en (sp? I hope I got it right) legal defence fund. 5 bands played, they were asking CAD$10, I volunteered $15. I don’t even know what is actually happening of late with it, maybe the welding for the pipeline runs merrily along, and it is off the front burner.