“I smelled weed” killed it couple of decades ago.
Was worth sacrificing the entire nation to force Prohibitionist’s beliefs on others? They absolutely agree, these shitters still want to keep banning shit.
The Fourth Amendment has been dead at least since the Patriot Act.
That’s not what dead letter means but okay
dead letter
/ˌded ˈledər/
Inactive rules: A law, rule, or treaty that still exists on paper but has lost its power or practical use.It still fits doesn’t it? I’m not gonna lie, I don’t think I’ve ever read this term before, so I could be very, very wrong.
huh, i coulda sworn it was an undeliverable letter. can’t remember the specific term for laws that have been unenforced so long that they are now unenforceable (as i’m not a lwayer0 but i coulda sworn it was latin.
You’re not wrong, it also means that! I think there is in fact another legal term that you’re thinking of, though it’s escaping me as well at the moment
Patriot Act coming home to roost. Right to privacy has been getting rinsed for 25 years now.
I remember being told that I was a terrorist for warning people about this.
If only it was just that long, though it did supercharge it.
I mean, I don’t love this newest wrinkle, but it’s almost like people are unaware of COINTELPRO, ECHELON, Five Eyes, Stingrays etc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_United_States
Proof that all it takes to sound like a conspiracy theorist is to know the names of four real, actual things the CIA has done.
2006: They are listening to us through our televisions!
2026: They are listening to us through our televisions.
Wasn’t Weeping Angel like 2014?
Yeah. It’s kind of annoying to know that there are real conspiracies out there. Proven ones.
And because they exist and many people know about the real cases, right wing crazies can declare things like “the difference between conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact is about six months” and have others consider that true and profound. It’s absolutely maddening.
There is a world of difference between the people jerking off to Q and Pizzagate nonsense and what the Church Committee found, for example. A lot of lazy morons think that because Epstein exists - a man known for his crimes prior, by the way - that it somehow vindicates things like Q and Pizzagate.
