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BitBurn | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Nah...

Which founding father said "We've given you a republic now lets see if you can keep it"? 

Which of the first 10 amendments centralized government control? Anyway you made my point that no matter what happened to the USA historically, the constitution was no psyop from the beginning lolol.
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Hazey | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The first 10 are the Bill of Rights, you didn't even understand what I said
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BitBurn | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I certainly understood. Which of them centralized governmental control? 1st? 2nd? Which?

Pretty sure they guaranteed God given freedoms and had nothing to do with any psyop.
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Hazey | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 The anti-federalists, the ones who were against the Constitution, like Patrick Henry, demanded the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments) before they would sign on. So the authoritarian feds appeased them to get their centralized power psyop through. Subsequent amendments (beyond the first 10 which you still failed to understand) are pretty much all focused on consolidating power, exactly as the anti-federalists warned.
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BitBurn | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Stop telling me what I don't understand. 

I'm familiar with all of that and simply called you out on calling the Constitution a "psy-op" which is patently ridiculous. Of course there were different factions but the original idea was never to impinge on the rights of man but to recognize and honor them.