Poems in true chronological order by post date
-> file: fediverse/2266 ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: pol │ └──────────────────────┘ so hard to tell which kind of logistics just don't matter anymore. ah, well, best to keep up with appearances. "is posting dank memes on the internet a logistic?" "yeah probably idk" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/2267 ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: uspol │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-620 The BLM protests were a threat, but not a killing blow, because people like me feared tear gas more than chamber gas. It won't happen again. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/2268 ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: uspol │ └──────────────────────┘ The supreme court is the institution which protects our most sacred of documents. It is a court most supreme, but their word is not law - they protect and adapt the law to fit our new societal conclusions. The constitution is law, and they broke it at the behest of a tyrant king we shouldn't need to vanquish. They broke the law. They are criminals. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/2269 ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: uspol │ │ ║ └──────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ The constitution is a document which bears our most precious of human rights. │ ║ It has been amended many times, to include additional protections and │ ║ guidelines for the standards we owe to each other. │ ║ │ ║ The one standard that stands above all is that your rights end where another's │ ║ begin. This law is universal, it Trumps all else. │ ║ │ ║ When rights are deprived, liberty dies. Liberty, the freedom to be, to do as │ ║ you will and exist in our society. Liberty, that most sacred of trees, the │ ║ branches that shade us and the roots that [support us, but pronounced like │ ║ chain, shame, profane, contain, something like that] │ ║ │ ║ One standard that exists alongside many others is the right to be as you are in │ ║ public society. Public is defined as something we share, and to deny the right │ ║ to be for any other is to deny them liberty. │ ║ │ ║ In cities, the streets are public. In rural areas, the commercial spaces │ ║ (outdoor malls) aren't, but probably should be. In the distant past of last │ ║ week, they could harass you until you left. Now, jail. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/2270 ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: uspol │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-1203 The judges prevent the politicians from harming the people who elect the politicians who select the judges. Sounds like it should work well, no? well... the people are divided, but the politicians it seem are hardly so. So, the politicians elect their judges, who allow the passage of such laws which contradict the will of the people. The keys to power should rest in the hands of those who deserve it, not those who claim it. If those who claim it do not relinquish it for a worthy other, they are corrupt and must be dethroned. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/2271 ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: uspol │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-1203 It's worked well enough for several hundred years, but now that it's crumbling I think we can see that the foundation was cracked. The founding fathers owned slaves! Everyone did! And yeah, we've updated our views a bit, but... did we really? I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader. A shaky foundation's no good. The entire structure needs to be torn down and built up again, deciding with intention which pieces we should bear forth from the past, and which were just not made to last. From those pieces, we might forge new documented standard understandings, regulations which define our societal proceedings. A contract, between a consenting person and the state's protected institutions. But that's for tomorrow, or the next day, or perhaps another day still. Today we are busy, as revolutions are quite a big thrill. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/2272 ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── They say that the most natural sleep schedule for humans is taking a bunch of tiny naps during the day, and ngl I think I kinda get why. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ |