• PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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    The clause was designed to operate directly and immediately upon those who betray their oaths to the Constitution, whether by taking up arms to overturn our government or by waging war on our government by attempting to overturn a presidential election through a bloodless coup.

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      american here, I never took an oath to the constitution. i know a few folks who served in the military so presumably they did but I sure as hell didnt.

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        That was their point. It doesn’t apply to the average person because the average person hasn’t taken an oath to the constitution, but politicians who have served terms in office have, so it applies to them

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            Telling people to go back and read the nonsense you wrote doesn’t make it sound less nonsensical, it’s just nonsense we’ve read twice.

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        And if you participate in insurrection against the country you’ll be disqualified from taking that oath