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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 88 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Damn. If only the Constitution has been transposed into non-cursive format at least once over the last 250 or so years! /s

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I know you’re being sarcastic but I’m sure those that buy what Fox is selling here think that anything besides the original document itself is untrustworthy and has been doctored to be woke or something else stupid

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

The transcription on Wikipedia has pronouns in it! They even made it start with one!

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait until they hear about the Bible

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] PwnTra1n@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago
[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

As if random tourists are testing for forgeries

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

They probably don't know about it, but shit like that has happened.

http://web.archive.org/web/20230520080201/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html

A single unnamed secretary illegally altered the wording of a federal law that was passed in 1871, when they failed to properly copy it into the Federal Register, in 1874. That shit led to Qualified Immunity, which is explicitly against the original wording of the law as passed.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I'm sure if they took a trip to DC they wouldn't know if it was the original or not.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Da, why yankee no teach children Cyrillic these days? Москва́ DEMANDS ANSWERS

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

How could it be? It's in cursive! Nobody knows how to read that!

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

And possibly put somewhere it’s easily explained with the entirety of the text included. That would be so hard to do…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States

And…

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CDOC-110hdoc50/pdf/CDOC-110hdoc50.pdf

[–] BrotherL0v3@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I am continuously amazed what the right wing propaganda machine convinces people to get upset about.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

BREAKING NEWS!!! DEMOCRATS CONTAMINATE WATER SUPPLY WITH FLUORIDE!!!

[–] credo@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

URGENT! Democrats conspire to plant trees to emit POISONOUS oxygen into atmosphere.

[–] knightmare1147@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

DANGER! Democrats have SPACE LASERS and HURRICANE machines!

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Eh, even they described as a literal "conspiracy theory", so (without having seen the footage) it was probably more of a light-hearted quip.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Gotta float your bullshit somehow

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Dude, I learned to read and write in cursive like every other 90s kid. I still can't read much of the original text of the constitution. Have you see that chicken scratch?

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's very readable, definitely not chicken scratch. Unless I missed an implied "/s"?

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

If you look up a really high res scan, it is much better. Most pictures/scans I've ever seen though are completely unreadable because of how crazy italicized it is. It's on like a 60 degree lean. It just looks like scribbles if the image is not super high res.

[–] Dr_Fetus_Jackson@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

As if these dildos know what it says.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, they can read the bit about the “right to bear arms”, but the part involving a “well regulated militia” makes them confused and angry.

[–] shplane@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

The irony is that the right to bear arms is a literal amendment to the constitution which the founding fathers did intentionally to set a precedent for future leaders to change and update the constitution. Conservatives who act like strict constitutionalists just completely miss the point of the bill of rights and their favorite amendment to have guns

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 18 points 3 months ago

Remind me: which party fights against funding public education, thereby forcing school administrators to make difficult choices about what to cut?

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Like it matters to these fucking traitor shitbags. If every republican could just fucking get measles ASAP, that would be grand.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 10 points 3 months ago

You've never read the constitution until you've read it in the original Klingon

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Pulling the same old crap like they do with the bible?

They’re taking religion out of schools so kids don’t read the bible!1!1!

When the problem is that Fox watchers haven’t bothered to read either of the writings themselves and believe whatever someone tells them the documents mean. They don’t actually want anyone to read these things.

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

“le Wut”

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago

True, you can only truly understand it in its original cursive, read while walking around colonial williamsburg

[–] circuitfarmer 5 points 3 months ago

Trump could tear up the Constitution live on Fox News and they'd point at Democrats and ask why they hate America

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I have to read cursive every day for work.

But that's because I'm the only person I know who writes in cursive.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

lmao, why would they care if that was accurate??

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] kebab@endlesstalk.org 2 points 3 months ago

Thank you, I’ve just updated the link

[–] ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

At least we can read.

[–] CompleteUnknown@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

My wife is a school teacher. Schools in our area haven't taught cursive in years. They've been talking about bringing it back.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

They still teach cursive? I remember hearing schools were dropping it in like the 2000s