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You dumb fucking assholes the entire Constitution and the entire county was set up specifically around ensuring that the tyranny of the southern slave owning planets was iron clad. Fuck you fuck you fuck you and fuck this propaganda riddled hell hole.

come on man

So you are telling me the framers didn’t fear tyranny of the minority like…for example…a king?

Indeed. Who among the Framers could possibly have anticipated the tyranny of the minority of George III? Surely a counterfactual beyond history's wildest speculations.

Well, the majority allowed the minority to elect a racist authoritarian government and these are the consequences which will likely be felt for many years if not decades. If these people valued their rights they should have voted so shame shame on them

Can you say #Lobbyist $$$

y'all suck so much

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They were pretty dumb guys

So they rebelled against the tyranny of one guy but could conceive of the tyranny of a minority?

What do you dum dums think an authoritarian dictatorship is, but the smallest minority??

the us was built for tyranny of the minority. enlightenment ideals were ad hoc alibis to justify freedom for capital and chains for the colonized

yall are forever dumb as shit

The most garbage magazine. What do y'all think tyranny is?

Y'all, that's what a king is. The framers did, in fact, know about tyranny of the minority.

No, they feared the majority would be like "Why are we so obsessed with making sure these evil rich fucks still get to own people and control the government with no way to take way their power?" Every other evil thing in the constitution flows from this.

TIL the Nobility were a majority.

Because they WERE a tyranny of the minority. Wealthy white businessmen several of whom were slave owners who created the US to serve their colonial business interests including the genocide of Natives to steal their land. Only white men who owned land could vote.

please google 'history'

This tyranny of the minority BS has been a conservative talking point since the Civil Rights era. People wanting equality is "tyranny." If the market rewarded people for being unbiased it already would have long ago.

so are you gonna stop publishing the anti-trans shit that gets these fuckers elected or what

The minority had no voice at all back then, so why would they have cared about the minority?

Um, what?

Checks and balances make tyranny far more difficult to achieve.

They didn’t fear the tyranny of a small group of elites similar to the MONARCHY they were rebelling against? They set up government w 3 interdependent branches & give the President all the power. What they didn’t expect was a bunch of feckless politicians w no personal or institutional integrity.

each week you outdo yourself publishing nonsense

Um, no. Is this opposites day?

Isn't tyranny of the minority just regular tyranny?

This is not even poor civics knowledge, this is straight up not knowing what words mean.

Do y'all have any writers who have read literally anything?

Can anyone give examples from US history of where we used "majority rule to take non-democratic actions."?

Repeat after me "taxes do not hurt the rich". Repeat after me "taxes do not hurt the rich". Repeat after me "taxes do not hurt the rich".

Tyranny is(was) tyranny.

the framers were a bunch of slave owners and landlords, they literally were the tyranny of the minority you dumb fuckholes

Thinking that Trump won a "multiracial coalition" without mentioning that he leaned into other forms of bigotry is such a cis het male thing.

This does not seem to be root d in reality

What else would you expect from a political system that gives backwards regressive, mostly empty rural regions greater political power than states where the majority not only of educated, progressive people live, but also where the majority of ALL of people live?

Counterpoint - the founders created a system run only by while men of means. They created a tyranny of the minority and built a system to make that difficult to overcome.

These kinds of shit takes happen when people stop reading political philosophy and decide not to ask somebody who has.

yes

Do y'all ever listen to yourselves or... ?

Bullshit. The framers created the 3/5s Compromise and Senate apportionment for just that purpose.