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Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry earlier this week supported a resolution that would repeal the 17th Amendment and strip American voters of their right to elect U.S. Senators.

The joint resolution, introduced by Texas Congressman Keith Self, aims to “restore the Founders’ original vision for the United States” and return the selection of senators to state legislatures.

“Our Founding Fathers designed the Senate to protect state sovereignty and act as a check on federal overreach. If senators are supposed to represent their states, then the states should choose them. Repealing the 17th Amendment will restore that constitutional balance and make the Senate more accountable to the people of Texas and every other state in the union,” Self said.

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        and the militia bit in the second amendment has now come to mean individual, explicitly argued by the originalists, which is wild

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        your fascist regime is interfering in my country’s politics as well.

        We absolutely are. But modern Australia was built as a colonial project. Both the US and Australia are an extension of that centuries old Anglo project to extract the wealth of the world.

        It’s all one global fascist project, and the Australian oligarchs are more than happy to play along

        • TrippaSnippa@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          3 days ago

          It’s all one global fascist project, and the Australian oligarchs are more than happy to play along

          Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person and owner huge donor and policy “consultant” to our rapidly-rising far right party One Nation, visited Mar-a-Lago last year and since then ON has risen rapidly in the polls and bots shilling the party have flooded social media. So yes, the oligarchs all over the world are part of the same fascist project.

        • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 days ago

          yeah, we learn from you learn from they learn from us learn from it’s all one big incestuous circle of evil.

          gotta look close to home, at your neighbors to find the good. i just found out one of mine has a Mystery Machine! Like from Scooby Doo! In take-it-to-a-show condition (because that is where i saw it). he didn’t realize i recognized him from my local farmer’s market because he was in Show Mode. it was cool.

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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        3 days ago

        It’s probably spamming your feed too. I tried getting away from this country early on last year, but even when I was abroad I couldn’t get away from this country’s news…