It didn't need saying for the first 200 years. Just like "don't kill kids in utero" and "don't misuse medications to deliberately disrupt childrens' natural puberty" didn't NEED to be codified. It's not late, modern times are uniquely fucked.
The Founding Fathers were smart, competent, faithful men. The current era of stupid, incompetent, faithless women/wammanz/queenz/soibois is so far removed from their experience that I don't think they could have imagined it.
Hell, Jefferson and Washington imagined the worst that would occur in America before blood started flowing was 18th century Euro-style ghettos.
I'll challenge that. The Founding Fathers weren't the type of people to engage in hyper-rationalization. Liberalism implicitly assumes that power and institutionalization is the corrupting force in a society of ethical, protestant, fathers & husbands.
When they said, "Congress shall make no law", it seemed perfectly clear to everyone in the room.
America's constitution is not a piece of paper. That's the Constitution of the United States. America's constitution is the moral fortitude of her sons.
Excessive preemptive regulation and restrictions for potential hypothetical problems is not freedom. That's literally EU methodology where regulation predates industry and why they can't into machine learning worth a damn.
How are they hypothetical problems? It literally happened. The United States, rather than exist for the posterity of the American people, has been invaded and co-opted.
Enforcing an official language would have helped immensely in combating that.
To my limited historical knowledge, "Official Languages" were usually only necessary decrees because there were so many disparate languages within a nation that identifying a singular one for communication was necessary for getting anything done coherently.
How often has it happened that a nation that already spoke a singular language was overrun with so many different foreigners that they had to redefine what the official language was, where it never needed to be agreed upon beforehand? Did Rome suffer this? Some ancient Chinese dynasty?
I well recall many Liberals in my youth saying "HAH! The US doesn't have an official language" as a defense against "why are there so many multi-lingual signs everywhere now? Why do I have to press a special button for English in my own country's phone trees?"
They literally told half of Louisiana that English was our official language sometime in the last century so that they didn't have to bother keeping Cajun French speakers around in tax funded operations. Its the primary reason why the language is basically a dead novelty, because everybody had to know English for school/work and government buildings.
Funny how that happened for us Whites, and even the Blacks, but the Mexicans got the "oh we have no official language" excuse for decades while we all suffered under increasing catering to that.
but the Mexicans got the "oh we have no official language" excuse for decades while we all suffered under increasing catering to that.
Don't even get me started on that.
One time, back in my (California) hometown, I was eating food out with my mom during the (I think) 2018 World Cup. There were Mexican flags flying on cars and trucks as far as the eye could see, and I asked her then "have we been taken over?". Obviously it's only gotten much worse since then, and one of the reasons I GTFO when I did.
People forget mass illegal protests happened in, like, 2010 or 2012. Then someone came out and said, "Jesus Christ, put away all the foreign flags and carry only US ones, you look like an invasion" and the Left stopped doing it.
About two hundred years overdue. But better late than never.
It didn't need saying for the first 200 years. Just like "don't kill kids in utero" and "don't misuse medications to deliberately disrupt childrens' natural puberty" didn't NEED to be codified. It's not late, modern times are uniquely fucked.
Hot take. Should have been codified. Failing to guard against bad faith, failing to future proof, was not a good thing.
The Founding Fathers were smart, competent, faithful men. The current era of stupid, incompetent, faithless women/wammanz/queenz/soibois is so far removed from their experience that I don't think they could have imagined it.
Hell, Jefferson and Washington imagined the worst that would occur in America before blood started flowing was 18th century Euro-style ghettos.
I'll challenge that. The Founding Fathers weren't the type of people to engage in hyper-rationalization. Liberalism implicitly assumes that power and institutionalization is the corrupting force in a society of ethical, protestant, fathers & husbands.
When they said, "Congress shall make no law", it seemed perfectly clear to everyone in the room.
America's constitution is not a piece of paper. That's the Constitution of the United States. America's constitution is the moral fortitude of her sons.
Excessive preemptive regulation and restrictions for potential hypothetical problems is not freedom. That's literally EU methodology where regulation predates industry and why they can't into machine learning worth a damn.
How are they hypothetical problems? It literally happened. The United States, rather than exist for the posterity of the American people, has been invaded and co-opted.
Enforcing an official language would have helped immensely in combating that.
To my limited historical knowledge, "Official Languages" were usually only necessary decrees because there were so many disparate languages within a nation that identifying a singular one for communication was necessary for getting anything done coherently.
How often has it happened that a nation that already spoke a singular language was overrun with so many different foreigners that they had to redefine what the official language was, where it never needed to be agreed upon beforehand? Did Rome suffer this? Some ancient Chinese dynasty?
I well recall many Liberals in my youth saying "HAH! The US doesn't have an official language" as a defense against "why are there so many multi-lingual signs everywhere now? Why do I have to press a special button for English in my own country's phone trees?"
They literally told half of Louisiana that English was our official language sometime in the last century so that they didn't have to bother keeping Cajun French speakers around in tax funded operations. Its the primary reason why the language is basically a dead novelty, because everybody had to know English for school/work and government buildings.
Funny how that happened for us Whites, and even the Blacks, but the Mexicans got the "oh we have no official language" excuse for decades while we all suffered under increasing catering to that.
Don't even get me started on that.
One time, back in my (California) hometown, I was eating food out with my mom during the (I think) 2018 World Cup. There were Mexican flags flying on cars and trucks as far as the eye could see, and I asked her then "have we been taken over?". Obviously it's only gotten much worse since then, and one of the reasons I GTFO when I did.
People forget mass illegal protests happened in, like, 2010 or 2012. Then someone came out and said, "Jesus Christ, put away all the foreign flags and carry only US ones, you look like an invasion" and the Left stopped doing it.
Good thing they have a short memory.
For English, press 2. Por Espanol, prensa ocho.
Ha, it would be less egregious if they did English first. Most do Spanish first just to make sure and waste the maximum of our time.
Not only that, but most of them use a bastard pidgin Spanish. I know most voicemail services use "oprime", which is "to oppress/squeeze/hold down".
For English, press one. Por español, regrese a México.
Really needs to be a law.
I bet California, Washington, etc., will pass laws declaring they have no official language lol
Good, now make sure no one is ever again forced to suffer the indignity of a phone menu that includes pressing 2 for foreigner speak.
I'll bet the aclu will be against it
TIL it wasn't already.