• abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    20 days ago

    If they do make a single written Constitution, it’s going to be a fucking cluster fuck.

    Some cunt will try put in some bullshit preventing independence or taking away rights from certain people or some authoritarian horse shit. It doesn’t matter who is in power. And every time there’s any movement for change or anything I’ll just waive the Constitution people’s faces like it’s some fucking holy book.

    It sort of reminds me of the perennial calls for a pledge of allegiance for Britain.

  • Apepollo11@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    If he does, I hope he does a better job than the “British Values” nonsense that Boris Johnson and co inflicted upon us.

    I worked as a lecturer when that came out. Every course now needed to explain how it teaches “British Values”. I taught programming.

    “In this topic, to demonstrate the value of Tolerance, I discuss how some people prefer to indent with tabs and some with spaces. I explain that, despite often being a point of contention amongst programmers, both are equally valid approaches.”

    And who read those things? I’m sure absolutely no-one.

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    20 days ago

    The general premise is advisable… just not while this spate of dipshits are in charge.

    You’d wind up with anti-trans bigotry as a bloody heirloom, like the US’s talking about liberty and rights and slavery.

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          20 days ago

          My point was you said good idea but not under this government, those are the other two feasible alternatives so I was asking if you would rather they did it, as no one else will be in a position to.

          I do hate the online “its not perfect so I’m going to throw my toys out the pram and complain so something even a little better doesnt happen”.

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            20 days ago

            Sneering about the trolley problem doesn’t work when don’t is an option. There is no reason this has to happen, right the hell now. It’s not suddenly any more necessary or feasible than it has been in decades past, and it won’t stop being feasible once all these pricks are seen as archaic. You can and will do better than this. Set things in stone… then.

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              20 days ago

              Do you think the Attlee, Wilson or Blair governments were perfect, should they have not pushed through reforms because they weren’t?

              Why should this governments less than perfect stance on trans rights stop them pushing for defining the role of local governments more clearly, or moving to a better voting system? Should Blair not have done devolution for Wales and Scotland, or removing most of the hereditary lords because he didn’t push though total gay marriage equality?

              Insisting on waiting for perfection to do anything is a tool of those who don’t want anything to change and benefit from the status quo.