“I know what corpus christi is: it’s in the 1st amendment!”

He immediately followed this up by talking about how he picked up some legal knowledge while growing up from his mother who worked for a local politician.

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    The consitution itself is the slave owners’ compromise to the bourgoisie and petty-bourgoisie; let the liberals and fascists duke out how faithful they are to it between themselves.

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    It’s amazing how much these people dry hump the constitution while never actually reading it. It takes like 20 minutes to read and fully understand it. Then you remember the US didn’t have Castro’s literacy program and they have a 79% adult literacy rate agony-deep

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          It’s so bad. Even in high school I knew a lot of people who were illiterate 20 years ago, but it’s gotten even worse nowadays. I made sure to teach my young brothers to read before they were a few years old, because school was never going to teach them. I was always a voracious reader, and I think a lot of it comes down to being read to as a child, which made me want to read ASAP. I think the alienated and disaffected parents these days don’t have the energy for that, and so we have entire generations of iPad kids. Don’t get me wrong, I was a gamer kid, but you could only replay Mario World so many times, and so I’d end up reading books, but now the slop is available as a non-stop intravenous drip feed custom tuned to light up your dopamine receptors. Without boredom, people never do anything that challenges them I feel.

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    probably that family member thinks that people working at the government are parasites or political aides are corrupt, but thinks its mother it’s different

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      Without getting into self-doxxing territory, his connections through his mother made it so one of the city’s mayors was a close family friend of his. This mayor is regarded by non-chuds as the most racist and evil person to ever hold the seat and was basically a fascist dictator ruling the city with an iron fist; my family member maintains that he wasn’t racist at all and was actually a great guy.