Reasonable negotiating positions don't emerge from Dummköpfen high on colonialist authoritarianism.

These people don't love Star Trek. Or, indeed, anything else. They're against things and people (*so many* things and people), but they can't actually enjoy anything on its own merits. And, of course, some are bots.

A combo of weird failed humans and weird fake humans.

The phrase "Look it up" still rings in my ears!

Sorry, I assumed you were an adult with the necessary background knowledge conversing in good faith. My mistake.

The process is intended to encourage fealty to the vows taken to uphold the constitution, rather than a quasi-reification of the printed constitutional text, so a book/text meaningful to the oath-taker would seem to be the most appropriate choice. And, of course, affirmation is also an option.

Ikr? So many words to express the settled understanding that structures of power may be neither critiqued or changed.

Doing so from without: attack. Doing so from within: treason.

The Westminster concept of a loyal opposition is utterly incomprehensible to this mentality.

No, he's decreasing Washington's soft power in Africa. The relationship Africa has with the rest of the world is, thankfully, not in his hands.