• Dragomus@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Ah, the tearing up of the constitution has begun, as predicted.

    First it will be excuses of bugs and a lapse in judgement.
    Next it will be said to be done to clean up wording to make things readable. Finally a blatant reasoning is given that those passages are outdated and not deemed required for a modern American population. The new constitution will be a far more efficient document is what they’ll say.

    • AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 days ago

      From another comment…


      “My sight is failing,” [Clover] said finally. “Even when I was young I could not have read what was written there. But it appears to me that that wall looks different. Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be, Benjamin?”

      For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran:

      ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS