Matt BlazeGet ready for four years of fuzz testing the constitution, in production.
Draken BlackKnight@mattblaze
That moment when we all realize that Brazil has better political guardrails than we do. 🙁
dade@mattblaze Equal parts fuzz testing and regression testing 😅
Darryl RammLets also see how long the test harness can run without dumping core.
OnlyMe@mattblaze With life-and-death consequences
Obviousthe best time to start testing in prod is friday afternoon
Eryn with a Y@obvious03 Nah, the best time is the Wednesday before Thanksgiving...
fuzzface@mattblaze @oclsc Hey!!! Keep me out of this!!!
rob pike@mattblaze Do you actually believe the US constitution remains relevant? The Weimar constitution stayed on the books right through WWII, but was essentially ignored.
Kelsey Jordahl@robpike @mattblaze the Weimar constitution was used by the Nazis to gain power, so certainly it was relevant, at least until the Reichstag abdicated power with the Enabling Act. Before that it was Article 48 of the Weimar constitution that allowed dictatorial power by decree. The US constitution is stronger, even if our institutions are currently weakened. There are lessons in Weimar, but I don't think the lesson is that constitutional law is irrelevant.
Token Sane Person@robpike @mattblaze To this day the constitution of China guarantees freedom of speech and the rule of law. But trying to invoke that gets you arrested.
@robpike Yes, I do. We got through the first Trump administration badly damaged but probably not irreparably so. The next Trump administration will be a much harder test, and I’m frightened for what they have in store, but I’m more frightened of the prospect that people simply give up out of a sense of hopelessness.
InfoSecBen@mattblaze @robpike it’s been a lot of disbelief and grief, but as Professor Tolkien said “your Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while all the Company is true.” (The Fellowship of the Ring, Harper Collns 1991 pp. 346-349).
Clinton Anderson SwordForHireIt is an undeniable fact, America is a failed experiment.
The question is, can it survive long enough to reinvent itself..... Or is that, terrifyingly, what it's already doing......
marymessall@mattblaze @robpike Trump is 78, and his coalition is a bunch of angry wolverines in a burlap sack. Anyone who thinks they know what is going to happen in the next four years is fooling themselves.
@mattblaze Only four years?
Luna chan@mattblaze I don't think Trump gonna make it four years Vance is gonna 25th admendment him as soon as the opportunity presents itself and then the GOP will become fractured.
@mattblaze patched but never refactored
Neil Kandalgaonkar@mattblaze I know this is just a throwaway joke. But… I think it’s wrong in important ways
The Supreme Court has *already* declared the president beyond the rule of law. Specifically to nullify prosecution for a coup. They even gave Trump more immunity than his lawyers were asking for.
Their justification *is* the Constitution. Their ideological allies have campaigned for decades to mainstream that interpretation
The Constitution is not neutral or self-executing. Code is a poor metaphor
@neilk Not intended as a joke. But whatever.
Domestic Supply 
@mattblaze I was going to say that I don't know whether it bothers me more that I understand what you mean or that you're right, but I know the answer and it isn't even close.
Bill Zaumen@mattblaze I think I definitely need some 1st Amendment protection after creating videos like this one making fun of Trump's wall.
A line from the 1942 film "To be or not to be" comes to mind: "Oh, you don't have to worry about him. We shot him yesterday. We had definite proof that he was telling supposed to be funny stories about our fuehrer."