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clementine613

(561 posts)
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 08:24 PM Oct 2020

How long before the new SCOTUS interprets the 13th Amendment out of existence?

They can do that, you know. They can just say that it means something other than what it actually says. How long before we see slavery in the country again, especially if Trump wins? Six months? A year?

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How long before the new SCOTUS interprets the 13th Amendment out of existence? (Original Post) clementine613 Oct 2020 OP
Also women's suffrage - who needs women to vote when they should just defer to hubbies or fathers? Liberty Belle Oct 2020 #1
If peaceful resistance doesn't work... atreides1 Oct 2020 #2
Not going to happen... cayugafalls Oct 2020 #3
I wouldn't go that far. Claustrum Oct 2020 #4
Ok that is two slavery threads tonight, I think you got your point across. RGinNJ Oct 2020 #5
We will NOT bdamomma Oct 2020 #6
No need. They have all the low wage earners they need. Ferrets are Cool Oct 2020 #7
They'll gut the 14th and 15th first Retrograde Oct 2020 #8

Liberty Belle

(9,704 posts)
1. Also women's suffrage - who needs women to vote when they should just defer to hubbies or fathers?
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 08:26 PM
Oct 2020

As Amy Phony Barrett's church teaches.

Claustrum

(5,056 posts)
4. I wouldn't go that far.
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 08:29 PM
Oct 2020

Who are going to suddenly become slaves again? Are we going to buy them from somewhere in this day and age?

Retrograde

(11,392 posts)
8. They'll gut the 14th and 15th first
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 09:03 PM
Oct 2020

13th is harder to do. Besides, I don't think our new corporate masters want to have to deal with a lifetime of having to take care of slaves. Indentured servitude, though.....

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