Anonymous #1 5w

interesting interesting. i can definitely see why you would believe that. curious if anyone else has an example of a time were they were more eroded

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Anonymous #1 5w

Ice cold 😭

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Anonymous OP 5w

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and all of its amendments and reauthorizations, but that’s kinda the same thing

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Anonymous OP 5w

Well I could get crackpot and say Reagan imposing tuition fees as a response to Berkeley protests during his CA governorship put education out of reach of enough people to make eroding civil liberties easier in the long term. But even I know that’s grasping at straws when I could simply say that Reagan is at the foundation of so many of this country’s modern problems. Even before he was president.

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Anonymous #1 5w

interesting. my dad says trump and reagan are the greatest presidents of all time. i wouldn’t agree, i go to a woke ass university to prove it

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Anonymous OP 5w

He’d be shocked to discover that Reagan is the epicenter of California’s strict gun control laws. Reagan enacted those laws in retaliation to the Black Panthers open-carrying.

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Anonymous #1 5w

one of my dads only liberal views is gun control. at least he cares ab school shootings

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Anonymous OP 5w

Well. Good on your dad for not waffling on school shootings. More than can be said of probably half our elected officials.

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Anonymous #1 5w

Government surveillance of things viewable from public has always been considered constitutional by the Supreme Court (SCOTUS consistently interpreted the 4A as “government can gather info on someone but sometimes that info isn’t admissible in court”), the Patriot Act was just one of the first times Congress really decided to abuse that authority

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Anonymous #3 5w

This would be a fascinating sociology experiment, I am being sincere.

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Anonymous #1 5w

I kind of realized this when I got into linguistics. A lot of what we learn in English class is just trying to standardize a high-class dialect. Some stuff makes sense like standardized spellings, but the idea of there being “proper” and “improper” words and grammar is just based on social bias.

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Anonymous #3 5w

Like there’s legitimate reasons for the grammar structures of minority dialects. For example the grammar structure of African American dialects seems to be related to that of west African languages, just used for English. This is in no way inferior to the grammar of a white upper class person, but by “standardizing” English we further reinforce some dialects as being “worse”

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Anonymous #3 5w

It’s pretty similar to how some languages die. Minority languages (say in France) are often regarded as being improper or lower class and thus are not passed on to the younger generation. It’s similar to the marginalization of regional dialects in Japan also.

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