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Nire Bryce
@nirebryce.breadthcharge.net

i mean realistically if I wanted to table flip a lost election as an American autocratic dictator I'd simply call an article V convention immediately after the midterm election while everyone's burnt out and a good chunk of each state leg would be brand new and naive, but I'm built different so yk

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Nire Bryce
@nirebryce.breadthcharge.net

the chances of this happening are like 0 but that fact that it's probably not going to happen just makes me so disappointed in the think tanks on their side. like, really?

Nire Bryce
@nirebryce.breadthcharge.net

"keep an eye on enough seats for either party to call an article V constitutional convention because the median voter would desecrate the spirit of the Constitution with no thought to the future regardless of party" has been a thing I've been thinking about since 2024

a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)
@rakslice.bsky.social

inferring from a limited number of examples, what is a constitution but a consensus that was only possible during a single blink of an eye along time ago that nobody seriously wants to reopen because they're afraid it will immediately implode? :P

Nire Bryce
@nirebryce.breadthcharge.net

there's zero slack in the system (you can tell bc the rate of petty fighting amongst ourselves is spiking again) and a convention would burn so much more of that slack no one has