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Please don't quote a couple of left-wing advocacy sites as if that's credible evidence. And yes you are arguing that non-citizens should be able to vote by cons

Please don't quote a couple of left-wing advocacy sites as if that's credible evidence. And yes you are arguing that non-citizens should be able to vote by consistently attacking any kind of approach that would manage the issue. None of the things I've argued are extreme or radical, simple common-sense in most countries I think. Anyway it would be great if you could stop replying as we are just re-hashing the same arguments repeatedly.

shadowgovt 1y ago
And you are arguing that citizens should be deprived the right to vote. Wouldn't common sense suggest that the current requirements are working, especially given that the guy who ostensibly got the election "stolen" from him got elected again? Where is the threat that demands tightening the requirements? You are, of course, also welcome to leave the conversation if you feel it unproductive. It's neat how we are free to choose.
- lazyeye 1y ago
  "Where is the threat that demands tightening the requirements?.." I've previously given you the answer to this question at least 5 times, if not more. I'II leave it there.
  - shadowgovt 1y ago
    Not really. You keep asserting letting immigrants be citizens is some plot by Democrats to win elections demograpgically. The entire intellectual exercise is predicated on that being somehow wrong (as opposed to the rectification of dealing with the untenable tension that millions of people have lived here for decades without a path to becoming fellow citizens... A path that can be offered by an expedient as simple as fixing the law, not pouring more resources into failing to enforce a bad one). You started this subthread with the musing "It[']s so strange how illegal immigration has been completely normalised in the minds of some people." It's normalized for the same reason school shootings (I don't like it, but ask any member of Gen Z: school shooting drills are as normal as your drills now) and Sunday football are normalized: when something goes on for decades, it's normal. We live in a country where the President's wife broke immigration law (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/melania-trump-modeled-u-s-prior-getting-work-visa https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/melania-trump-modeled-...); are we expected to take him seriously when he leads a crusade against illegal immigration? The GOP is looking at an ocean, seeing the law declares it's illegal for the ocean to be there, and trying to boil it (instead of doing the smart thing, adjusting to the reality, and building a bridge).

shadowgovt 1y ago

And you are arguing that citizens should be deprived the right to vote. Wouldn't common sense suggest that the current requirements are working, especially given that the guy who ostensibly got the election "stolen" from him got elected again? Where is the threat that demands tightening the requirements? You are, of course, also welcome to leave the conversation if you feel it unproductive. It's neat how we are free to choose.

lazyeye 1y ago
"Where is the threat that demands tightening the requirements?.." I've previously given you the answer to this question at least 5 times, if not more. I'II leave it there.
- shadowgovt 1y ago
  Not really. You keep asserting letting immigrants be citizens is some plot by Democrats to win elections demograpgically. The entire intellectual exercise is predicated on that being somehow wrong (as opposed to the rectification of dealing with the untenable tension that millions of people have lived here for decades without a path to becoming fellow citizens... A path that can be offered by an expedient as simple as fixing the law, not pouring more resources into failing to enforce a bad one). You started this subthread with the musing "It[']s so strange how illegal immigration has been completely normalised in the minds of some people." It's normalized for the same reason school shootings (I don't like it, but ask any member of Gen Z: school shooting drills are as normal as your drills now) and Sunday football are normalized: when something goes on for decades, it's normal. We live in a country where the President's wife broke immigration law (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/melania-trump-modeled-u-s-prior-getting-work-visa https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/melania-trump-modeled-...); are we expected to take him seriously when he leads a crusade against illegal immigration? The GOP is looking at an ocean, seeing the law declares it's illegal for the ocean to be there, and trying to boil it (instead of doing the smart thing, adjusting to the reality, and building a bridge).