I'm wondering how political scientists have explained how the British political system has avoided tyranny despite the lack of codified checks and balances in its constitution that countries such as Canada, the US, and post-war Germany have.

I'm from the UK and as you might know, we don't have a "written" constitution. Of course the UK constitution isn't really unwritten as much as it is uncodified; it just doesn't exist as one single document like the US Constitution does. Instead, it exists in normal legislation, case law, and even just conventions, as well as in the relationships between these constitutional sources.

Linked to this is the fact that in the UK it is Parliament, rather than the constitution, that is legally supreme; Parliament can, at least in theory, remove or modify any part of the constitution with a simple majority vote.

I used to be in favour of a new, US-style written constitution for the UK, but more recently I've become fairly firmly convinced that it would be a bad idea. I think it's right that Parliament is able to legislate on whatever it wants, and I think it should still be able to do so in the future. I don't think we have a right to dictate anything to future generations, even things which we currently think are fundamental.

I think there are some interesting parallels/contrasts between the UK and the US here, given the fact that there seem to be many in the US who aren't happy with certain parts of the US constitution. Though of course I recognise that the two countries are very different and so what works for one might not work for the other.

Still, I thought it'd be interesting to see what you all think. Are legally entrenched constitutions a good idea? Is the US better for having one? Should the UK adopt one? If you were starting a new country tomorrow, would it have a legally entrenched constitution or not?

Benjamin Glynn from Yorkshire is an expat previously working in Singapore as a recruiter. On May 7 2021, he was filmed on the MRT without his mask on during a pandemic when the wearing of masks was (and still is) mandatory. When confronted, Mr Glynn continued to refuse even when offered masks by members of the public, insisting “I will never wear a mask”.

When the police visited him two days later he threatened to “knock them down”. At court he still did not wear a mask and sought the help of unqualified legal counsels, one of whom was turned away from court for being inappropriately dressed.

The other claimed to be an “ambassador at large for and advocate of Kingdom Filipina Hacienda”, which is a cult with an office in Singapore that believe themselves to be an autocratic separatist Filipino kingdom whose queen has urged sovereign governments around the world to “turn over and relinquishment (sic)” and espouses “Omg! End of the World” on Facebook.

More worryingly, on their Singapore Facebook page they reveal their anti-vax stance, sharing numerous anti-vax memes

One of many anti-vax memes on KFH Singapore Facebook

Later on as we examine Mr Glynn’s legal strategy we will begin to understand why he had chosen this organisation for legal aid. We will also explore the background of the Sovereign-Citizen movement and analyse their arguments.

For my post I hope to achieve at least two points:

1. Demonstrate how conspiracy theories lead to extremism
2. Answer: What the hell are sovereign-citizens about?

Benjamin Glynn’s Twitter Account

A comment on personal info: Benjamin Glynn has made extensive efforts to self-promote using his real identity, as such I am merely subjecting his public persona and published tweets to scrutiny. All other private information is concealed. Considering that his case is already public news, obscuring his identity here would be ineffective and detrimental to the interest of the case.

I have also been careful to verify that the owner of this account is really his.

Ben Glynn’s Twitter Account (@Benglynn7) is a treasure trove of insights into his psyche and forms a basis of understanding for his strange behaviour. His own tweets will show that he is not the heroic freedom fighter he has made himself out to be but rather, a man driven by deluded thinking. His “cunning” plan to escape legal p

Definition:

Liberal democracy, also referred to as Western democracy, is a political ideology and a form of government in which representative democracy operates under the principles of liberalism. It is characterised by elections between multiple distinct political parties, a separation of powers into different branches of government, the rule of law in everyday life as part of an open society, a market economy with private property, and the equal protection of human rights, civil rights, civil liberties and political freedoms for all people. To define the system in practice, liberal democracies often draw upon a constitution, either codified (such as in the United States)[1] or uncodified (such as in the United Kingdom), to delineate the powers of government and enshrine the social contract. After a period of expansion in the second half of the 20th century, liberal democracy became a prevalent political system in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

I guess the concept didn't work

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

Mathematical puns makes me number

Outline again

• Why study history of philosophy, what is history of philosophy
• Drama before thought
  • Cave-man
  • Expansive Cultures Uncodified
• The mythopoetic
  • Gilgamesh
  • Pharaohs
  • Moses
  • Homer
• The (pre-)Socratic revolution (dialectic search for the arche)--THE CRISIS EMERGES with the new types who want to have it all out in a go!
  • Thales
  • Anaximander
  • Anaximenes
  • Pythagoras
  • Xenophanes
  • Hericlitus
  • Parmenides
  • Zeno
  • Anaxagoras
  • Empedocles/
  • Atomists like Leucippus and Democritus
  • Sophists like Protagoras and Gorgias
  • Empedocles
  • Socrates
  • Plato
  • Aristotle
• The Catholic Roman Expansion (The not-so-Dark Ages)--Still all footnotes to Plato, on the philosophical side-- but a strange preservation of the mythopoetic.
  • Aquinas
  • Augustin
  • St. John of the Cross
  • Anselm
  • The Priests
  • The Monks
• The Cartesian Revolution -- Problem is Rationalism v. Empiricism (whence comes all our knowledge?)
  • Descartes
  • Spinoza
  • Leibnitz
  • Locke
  • Berkeley
  • Hume
• The Kantian Revolution -- Dissolving the "rationalism v. empiricism" old problem, now interpret this one as objective or subjective phenomena
  • Kant
  • Fichte
  • Hegel
  • Schopenhauer
• Nietzsche as judge throughout (rewind time) -- Dissolving pessimism v. optimism of nihilism... Resurrection of the mythopoetic or total reduction to materialism?
  • Kierkegaard
  • Marx
  • Jung
  • Henry James
  • Peterson

Intro:

In today's discussion, we are going to look at two aspects of the history of thought.

The pre-spoken image

The mythopoetic dramatic narrative

both to give us the stage upon which Socrates will show up and invent a new game: The analytic propositional.

In the pre-dramatic, ideas and truth exist, so do lies... but they do NOT exist as propositions in any individual head. These "ideas" preexist humans who own them consciously. It is more correct to say that the ideas own the people.

If this seems strange, let us use an intuition pump or two to make it more palatable.

The Acted Truths

First Thought Experiment, Intuition Pump: The wolf and snake:

When a pack of wolves meets with another pack on the trail, they follow a set of rules which amount to an overarching body of ethical pri

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

He lost May

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Put it on my bill

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

Calcium, nickel, neon

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Pilot on me!!

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Christopher Walken