Call me Lenny/Leni

It’s nice to meet all you. I am she/her, can speak Toki Pona and English (non-natively), and locatable on Reddit as MozartWasARed. The links at https://discord.gg/sEuSSDz6TQ and https://www.deviantart.com/triagonal/art/My-copyright-policy-and-the-impact-it-extends-into-906668443 are pertinent to me.

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  • Nobody can speak for their intentions except them, but the subtext is highly suggestive of the idea the founding fathers set up the nation to be rigged from the start.

    Consider the following.

    Suppose you wanted answers on why each election only highlights two possible answers. The founding fathers wrote they thought the masses were stupid (not even sure if that’s their exact wording, it even may have been) and that the process had to be dumbed down.

    Suppose you wanted answers on why voting power is distributed between county lines. One can cite none other than Alexander Hamilton who said he thought “people would be overriding each others’ interests otherwise”.

    But… then suppose you wanted answers on why people way past their prime can ascend to the presidency. The founding fathers, surprise, really did think about this, long and hard, since Rome had the same question lingering, but then said “meh it’s not going to be that big of an issue” (despite the fact something like the elections being dumbed down seemed big enough to manifest how it was manifested).

    It definitely seemed like they were sewing the seeds of tyranny.


  • If rules can be bent to the point of it being a defense, their mere existence ceases to be an effective enough topic of debate, since their acceptance can just be met with concern that they won’t be adhered to as intended. If he is going to arrest anyone over a “big lie” agenda (or for anything else), it’s also worth pointing out it’s not like they’re not going to get a court hearing for it, it’s not like they’re going to wake up one day and be like “well I guess I’m in jail now”. Relatedly, it’s by the same logic as not rejecting “lap dogs” based on their characteristic that we can’t automatically assume he’s going to accept people as model members of his fandom just because they follow him.












  • One can fantasize about being a dictator and still have the restraint not to be one. Obama said the same once, exploring the “what if” of if he was elected more than twice. Neither stand by this, and neither stand by what some of their more extreme supporters have done, hence some of the people in Trump’s list of allies, who do not fit the racial image promoted by said followers. The closest thing to this Trump wants is (and elaborating on the due process part here) to jail people who either charged other politicians wrongfully or got away with things wrongfully (which makes it ironic Joe Biden is at the top of your list, we don’t know if he or Hunter are guilty but we know the issue at least deserves more analysis). Aside from Harris out of questionable association, that list draws a blank for me and nothing actually says those people are necessitated in a conversation about people who would be jailed, deciding this which isn’t actually a power that comes with immunity to prosecution in the first place, as immunity to prosecution, if it was an issue here, just gives you invulnerability to political elements, not the power to imbue them, nor does it protect you from the consequences of absolutely every crime, which a president would find out if they ever killed someone for example.