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Joe Biden could enshrine the equal rights amendment into the constitution right now and has not done so for four years, allowing the oppression of many peoples in the very near future (hexbear.net)

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Oh yeah it hasn't been added to the constitution yet despite it being a thing proposed in the 1970's. There's a chance our next president here is going to undo one of the meager concessions obtained by the civil rights movement and spit on it's legacy

Edit: Pls join protests and stuff, there was a march last week to try and pressure him into getting it included in the constitution but it's been basically erased from media

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

> An amendment becomes an operative part of the Constitution when it is ratified by the necessary number of states, rather than on the later date when its ratification is certified.

Wait Joe Biden doesn't need to do anything. The Amendment already exists in a superposition of ratified and non-ratified; there just haven't been any legal challenges to test its existence in the eyes of the reactionary courts. What the fuck.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Adding it to the pile of evidence for "democrats are not interested in doing good things even if it would help them win".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

After all the shit that's come down the past few years, and especially the past 6 months, I'm pretty much convinced it's intentional at this point. These blood thirsty freaks are all on the same side and they're just taking the mask off.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Do we have a formal list of these somewhere?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago

No but we fucking should. Who wants to get on that?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago

Regretfully, no. For me it's just whatever random list of bullshit I can pull out of my brain soup at any given time.