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Re: Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections

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Post by pavlov »

foolswisdom wrote: post #20
dilap wrote: post #16

I would have to imagine this is an accident or rogue vandalism -- I don't think USGOV is trying to stealth-edit the constitution by truncating the last 18 paragraphs of Article I.

Why not? Congress is meant to be a check on the other branches of government (though the filibuster rule / partisan omnibus bill system has degraded its collective will, which is why they won't do anything), so pre-emptively removing the powers of congress from the list sounds like a power grab. It's not like it's something completely irrelevant. Same for the limitations of government listed there. Besides, the thing…

One can imagine the DOGE staffers high-fiving each other as they pushed this change.

Maybe they didn’t find any meaningful waste with their random Python scripts, but at least they got to own the libs.

Re: Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections

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Post by Kapura »

nemomarx wrote: post #27
Kapura wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you should check what the removed sections contain.

I could see an intern or staffer trying to protest violations of habeus corpus by doing this, I guess. gets more eyes on it

who do you think is staffing the current regime

Re: Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections

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Post by krapp »

mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #6

When do specific actions taken by the current US administration cross the legal line into treason or other legal lines where defense against domestic enemies is warranted?

I don't know. I feel like this isn't it. If having armed masked bands of military police kidnapping citizens to concentration camps or dismantling the government to purge it for ideological reasons or trying to retcon Epstein isn't it, then editing a website definitely isn't it.

Re: Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections

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Post by unethical_ban »

mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #6

When do specific actions taken by the current US administration cross the legal line into treason or other legal lines where defense against domestic enemies is warranted?

The line has been crossed, and we're waiting for a credible signal of collective action.

Re: Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections

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Post by Levitz »

foolswisdom wrote: post #20
dilap wrote: post #16

I would have to imagine this is an accident or rogue vandalism -- I don't think USGOV is trying to stealth-edit the constitution by truncating the last 18 paragraphs of Article I.

Why not? Congress is meant to be a check on the other branches of government (though the filibuster rule / partisan omnibus bill system has degraded its collective will, which is why they won't do anything), so pre-emptively removing the powers of congress from the list sounds like a power grab. It's not like it's something completely irrelevant. Same for the limitations of government listed there. Besides, the thing…

Because this is a government website and not the actual constitution. It's absurd. This is just not how any of this works.

Re: Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections

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Post by coreyp_1 »

You know, everyone is jumping to conclusions here about the evils of whomever their political rival is.

However, this is a website, based on code. And based on my most recent experiences with AI, I think it's more plausible that someone:

A.) Copied a file into an AI prompt (or use an AI agent).

B.) Asked the AI to do something to the file (like adjust the layout of the page, alter CSS, optimize something, or whatever.

C.) Eyeballed the response and thought it looked good.

D.) Copied the file back (or just saved it, depending on the IDE).

E.) Caused the Internet to melt down.

I've had AI chats and agents that randomly change things unrelated to what I asked it to do.

It seems that people are so quick to jump to a conclusion that supports their bias. To be clear, I did not (and never have) voted for Trump, but I'm not going to entertain conspiracy theories about orange man bad when it was probably some dev thinking, "this AI thing is cool... look at what it can do!"

Re: Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections

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Post by ahmeneeroe-v2 »

Kapura wrote: post #26
mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #6

When do specific actions taken by the current US administration cross the legal line into treason or other legal lines where defense against domestic enemies is warranted?

well you see, the congress and supreme court have decided that no, actually, this is what they want to happen.

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Re: Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections

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Post by andrewla »

sundaeofshock wrote: post #5
josefritzishere wrote: post #2

This is not normal.

True, but I’m glad they are making it public. The old US is gone; time to figure out where we go from here.

Hahaha -- making "it" public by cutting out the part of the constitution that says that we can have a Navy. What are you even talking about?
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