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by Zetice 3y ago
The purpose of government is to provide social goods to everyone who agreed to give up some freedoms to be part of that government. Non citizens have equal right to feed their families, and anyone who has agreed to the social contract has e
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by Zetice 3y ago
The point is they don’t have power, as stated in the First Amendment.
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by Zetice 3y ago
You keep getting stuck in the bureaucracy, presuming it results in just outcomes. It doesn’t. If the concept of citizenship was simply an agreement to the social contract, open to all, you could start to favor those who’ve agreed over thos
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by Zetice 3y ago
The problem you’re ignoring is that there is not a 1:1 correlation between citizenship and people who agree to the social contract. Everyone who gives up freedom to the state is entering into a social contract with that state, citizenship o
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by Zetice 3y ago
That’s exactly what is being discussed, even if you don’t realize what it is you’re saying. Americans are not more deserving of jobs than foreigners, Americans are not better than foreigners.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Agreed, the threats were going too far. But those are clearly being dealt with, and not in any way indicative of a free speech crisis such as what was referenced to in the parent comment.
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by Zetice 3y ago
A nation supports the people who agree to the social contract upon which the nation is founded, citizenship be damned. Citizenship in the US is a profoundly broken system with a horrendous and racist past, and using it to decide who deserve
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by Zetice 3y ago
There is nothing at all special about a US worker. Welcome to the world, where people who aren’t from or in the US also need to feed their families, and have just as much a right to do so as Americans do.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Absolutely, request away, and yes it is absolutely how the law works. Anyone can ask for anything, you’re free to just say no. You do not have an absolute right to free speech when it impinges on the free speech rights of somebody else.
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by Zetice 3y ago
No, a nation should not put just its citizens first, that’s nationalistic garbage. Firstly it presumes a nation decides who its citizens are through some fair system, and secondly it presumes its citizens are somehow inherently more deserv
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by Zetice 3y ago
No it isn’t, not so long as Instagram is the one making the decision.
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by Zetice 3y ago
No, people immigrated here because it was better here, and it was better here because people immigrated. And no, permanent residents do not have anything about them that is inherently more deserving of anything. That is in no way what a co
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by Zetice 3y ago
No, they do not, both because they’re not citizens at all, and that they’re still very highly paid, even though perhaps less than they should be.
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by Zetice 3y ago
If they’re not better, the company will get worse, and be overtaken eventually. In my experience, they’re plenty good enough, often overqualified.
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by Zetice 3y ago
The only war against freedom of expression is the constant threat of no longer allowing private organizations their freedom of speech by letting them publish what they want. Society doesn’t have a censorship problem, we have an entitlement
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by Zetice 3y ago
Why are Americans more deserving of jobs then other people?
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by Zetice 3y ago
H1Bs aren’t second hand citizens, and canceling the H1B program would trigger an immediate humanitarian crisis, not to mention completely shut off America’s main advantage in innovation; the idea that we don’t care where you’re from if you’
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by Zetice 3y ago
“ A good pair of shoes should come at a cost — Potter puts the minimum price for high-quality men’s shoes in a traditional style at $300 — but they should also last at least a decade with proper maintenance.” I don’t want my shoes to be a h
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by Zetice 3y ago
Your comment helped me finally get the original submission, thank you!
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by Zetice 3y ago
Because “hunting down and extinguishing” is a wild overreaction?
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by Zetice 3y ago
That's a latent function present to varying degrees in every society (who wants to rock the boat if you're having a good ride?), whereas the threat to one's family is more of a manifest function, sociologically speaking.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Your larger point is that 4chan isn't de facto moderated, but it is. Just because you agree with the level of moderation doesn't mean it's not moderated. The even broader point is that nobody wants to participate in a truly
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by Zetice 3y ago
The FCC censors radio because they prohibit certain speech on the radio… https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/obscene-indecent-and-pr...
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by Zetice 3y ago
DPRK’s top 1% live what amounts to an upper middle class life, and tend to educate their children abroad. My understanding is that they even have access to an unfiltered Internet supplied by China. The threat of extermination of their fami
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by Zetice 3y ago
Free banking is not free online banking.
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by Zetice 3y ago
So you believe corporations require you to sign these agreements even though they’re unenforceable? Interesting, and not supported by the case law.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Because you aren't actually entitled to online banking services from Chase, and if we lived in a world where, "I didn't read what I signed" was a valid defense, contracts would be more or less unenforceable. This is muc
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by Zetice 3y ago
I don't have any evidence for this, but the logic is not that "Everyone's wages go up." Rather, it's, "The folks at the lower end of the wage spectrum gain negotiating power to ask for more."
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by Zetice 3y ago
So it’s legitimate when a white jury allows white people to get away with killing black folks?
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by Zetice 3y ago
Exceedingly rare and shouldn’t be relied upon in any case. Further, 12 random people shouldn’t be able to flout democracy, and in fact judges are given a lot of discretion about what to do if a jury ignores law so blatantly.

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