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Should be a wild four years.

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It's been used and abused to hell and back. I'm guessing SCOTUS will significantly limit it rather than terminate it. Not the best outcome, but substantially better than any of us could have wished for only two years ago.
That’s probably the most likely outcome. Depending on how the ruling is worded, they could effectively limit it to such a narrow scope that it’s in all but name eliminated. Honestly, a ruling like that would probably piss off Democrats more because on the outside it would look like a win, but in reality translate to decades of abuse being undone.
 
It's been used and abused to hell and back. I'm guessing SCOTUS will significantly limit it rather than terminate it. Not the best outcome, but substantially better than any of us could have wished for only two years ago.
Honestly, significant limitation is the best outcome. When every Tom, Dick and Harry doesn't get US citizenship just because their mother happened to push them out of her vagina on US soil, that is the best outcome
 
It's because birthright citizenship is actually very murky legally. The writers of the amendment were quoted and wrote extensively saying that the law was ONLY for former slaves and Indians. those two groups were essentially stateless in the 19th century. they were "subject to the jurisdiction" of the US but had no actual legal rights. It's like those poor fuckers born into cults who never get a SSN or birth certificate. they're completely fucked.
Interesting, so would you say it was a provisional law that existed to solve a specific problem at a specific time and that context no longer exists?

If so, that makes me wonder if we should have better articulation of laws like that to expire after certain conditions are met.
 
If so, that makes me wonder if we should have better articulation of laws like that to expire after certain conditions are met.
I wish that were the norm (the only exception being the Bill of Rights). It would get rid of a lot of abuse where politicians claim it’s an emergency, yet never give up the emergency powers long after the crisis is over. The most recent abuse I’ve seen with this was governors during COVID, but they got bullied into loosening restrictions because it eventually hurt their economy severely.
 
When Nixon let the Air force off the leash and they pummeled north Vietnam, the Vietnamese came to the negotiating table in 2 weeks.
The North was willing to come to the table but they were not willing to withdraw their troops from Cambodia, which pretty compromised any defense of the South from a conventional invasion from the get-go. The South was able to fend off the first invasion in 1972 without American ground troops but with American air support, something that was cut off entirely by congress in 1975. The US figured they could solve the Cambodia question without putting additional boots on the ground by backing a pro-American coup and proceeding to bomb the border regions with Vietnam to try and interdict the flow of troops and supplies south but this just ended up backfiring horribly when the North instead put the Khmer Rouge into power.
 
The North was willing to come to the table but they were not willing to withdraw their troops from Cambodia, which pretty compromised any defense of the South from a conventional invasion from the get-go. The South was able to fend off the first invasion in 1972 without American ground troops but with American air support, something that was cut off entirely by congress in 1975.
Congress cutting war funding due to pressure from the anti-war crowd at the time is a big reason why the Fall of Saigon was such a disaster. The original evacuation plan for the South Vietnamese included far more planes to carry them to safety, but the budget cuts made helicopters the primary evacuation transport. It made the evacuation much slower and with far fewer South Vietnamese being able to escape. A substantial budget would have allowed for a safer evacuation for both South Vietnamese and Americans in the war zone.
 
So now that the dust has settled, who won the Greenland crisis, Trump by getting some concessions?, or Europe, for actually learning to stand up for once and averting the total collapse of the Trans-Atlantic alliance?
 
Meanwhile I have a Bachelor’s in Biology and a Masters in Education and I can’t get a teaching job in my area for shit…
Damn, that sucks, man. This is like when folks said, "Learn to code. It's the job of the future!" Then AI uses all their code to replace 90% of the market. You get a Master's in Education with a Bachelor's in Biology just as schools are overtaken by radical ideologues who declare biology is fake news and boys are actually girls.
 
God forbid a boomer pay “that snot nosed” kid down the street 50$ to mow their lawn instead of getting a Guatemalan to do it for 8$ an hour.
That's because time stopped in 1985. $50 is INSANE for mowing the lawn. Try $5 or $10 and that's if you have your own mower and fill it with your own gas.

I wonder if this is why they like their imported serfs and exported slaves so much? The slaves work for a pittance, but through the end of history filter the Boomers are working on they THINK they're paying them normal and everyone else is being absurdly greedy.

Like my boomer parents absolutely refused to believe I couldn't buy a nice home for $100k, until they got smug and told me they'd look instead since I obviously was being too picky and didn't know what I was doing. An hour later they called me back asking why the hell the cheapest crack house in the "diverse" part of town was $250k.

(Their immediate plan was to have me offer $75k (which since I have to compete with every jeet in dubai I don't exactly have) and when "they came to their senses" they'd sell it to me. It sold in less than 3 days for the full $250k.)
 
I wonder if this is why they like their imported serfs and exported slaves so much? The slaves work for a pittance, but through the end of history filter the Boomers are working on they THINK they're paying them normal and everyone else is being absurdly greedy.
The boomers are immensely narcissistic and do live in a bubble

Last time my dad was over, I remember asking him for some money. I wasn't looking for an insane amount, maybe a couple hundred pounds. He actually said to me 'You should be giving me money', and me and my brother pointed out what a hilarious misunderstanding of the boomer vs millennial dynamic this is.
 
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