#politics

@ToruOkada

Neither the laws nor the courts recognize the concept of "fake human beings".

@mcfate The current laws don't.

@ToruOkada

You seriously believe that laws can get passed declaring people to be something other than "human" based on how they vote?

I feel like you're working EXTRA hard to find things to panic about.

Plans along those lines would face 4th, 5th, 6th, 13th and 14th Amendment problems. Just for starts.

@ToruOkada

I'm mean, why not worry about Trump turning everyone who didn't vote for him into a newt with an executive order?

Why not worry that he'll repeal the Law of Gravity and set pi to three by decree, so lids will never fit on jars again?

Makes the same about of sense.

Basically, you're panicking that someone who wrote a book that Vance likes called you a name.

@mcfate Dehumanization of a group of people is the first step to genocide. Nobody in the history of mankind has declared to turn humans into newts (apart from some witches with mediocre success) and the Indiana pi bill never became law.

@mcfate However, to declare Jews as vermin that need to be exterminated has been enacted. The legalities might be difficult to fathom atm, but whether the current security measures hold depends on the people enacting them. Let's hope they do hold. As a German, I am less inclined to believe that a people cannot go into a collective meltdown.

@ToruOkada

I'm seeing people going into a collective meltdown every freaking day here.

I'm not becoming frightened and hypervigilant over an obnoxious book. That's what the people who've got you so worried WANT.