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You want me to explain how calling someone a retard is different from inferring someone who supports a criminal for president doesn't posses the level of reasoning beyond that of a chimp?
 
TangledUpInBlue06 said:
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia brought back to US, appears in court on charges of smuggling migrants

Kilmar Abrego Garcia appeared in a Tennessee courtroom Friday, hours after he was brought back to the U.S. to face charges of transporting undocumented migrants.
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Geisterfahrer said:
I'm stunned they're actually bringing him back.
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I remember thinking, when Trump had the president of Venezuela in the White House, that they were both just trolling the country and were actually bringing him back. That is Trump's memo. He says the most idiotic shit control us, and then does the opposite.
 
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"Present-day Americans feel secure in their citizenship: they are free to speak up for any cause, oppose their government, marry a person of any background, and live where they choose—at home or abroad. Denaturalization and denationalization are more often associated with twentieth-century authoritarian regimes. But there was a time when American-born and naturalized foreign-born individuals in the United States could be deprived of their citizenship and its associated rights. Patrick Weil examines the twentieth-century legal procedures, causes, and enforcement of denaturalization to illuminate an important but neglected dimension of Americans' understanding of sovereignty and federal authority: a citizen is defined, in part, by the parameters that could be used to revoke that same citizenship.

The Sovereign Citizen begins with the Naturalization Act of 1906, which was intended to prevent realization of citizenship through fraudulent or illegal means. Denaturalization—a process provided for by one clause of the act—became the main instrument for the transfer of naturalization authority from states and local courts to the federal government. Alongside the federalization of naturalization, a conditionality of citizenship emerged: for the first half of the twentieth century, naturalized individuals could be stripped of their citizenship not only for fraud but also for affiliations with activities or organizations that were perceived as un-American. (Emma Goldman's case was the first and perhaps best-known denaturalization on political grounds, in 1909.) By midcentury the Supreme Court was fiercely debating cases and challenged the constitutionality of denaturalization and denationalization. This internal battle lasted almost thirty years. The Warren Court's eventual decision to uphold the sovereignty of the citizen—not the state—secures our national order to this day. Weil's account of this transformation, and the political battles fought by its advocates and critics, reshapes our understanding of American citizenship."

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The Sovereign Citizen – Penn Press

Present-day Americans feel secure in their citizenship: they are free to speak up for any cause, oppose their government, marry a person of any background, a...
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Podcast interview with the author

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Patrick Weil, "The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2013) - New Books Network

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Podcast Interview with the author

How Trump’s Executive Order Contradicts Birthright Citizenship​

A Discussion with Anna O. Law, Julie Novkov, and Carol Nackenoff

Anna O. Law, Julie Novkov, and Carol Nackenoff
Published by New Books Network
2025
Birthright citizenship is established in the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution – yet Donald Trump’s recent Executive Order 14160 denies some types of birthright citizenship. The Order contradicts over a century of American law, legal practice, and constitutional interpretation. Three groups have opposed the order as unconstitutional and challenged it in...
 
dukeman92 said:
You want me to explain how calling someone a retard is different from inferring someone who supports a criminal for president doesn't posses the level of reasoning beyond that of a chimp?
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Yes. To me it seems like they are juvenile insults that don't really add to the conversation. Isn't that why you wanted the guy banned for saying libtard? or did you want him banned because he is a trump supporter?
 
gtyellowjacket said:
Yes. To me it seems like they are juvenile insults that don't really add to the conversation. Isn't that why you wanted the guy banned for saying libtard? or did you want him banned because he is a trump supporter?
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First of all, I didn't ask for anyone to be banned.

Second, I will admit that calling Trumpers names is childish. Even though they've done PLENTY to earn the vitriol.
But the word "retard" and its derivatives are widely considered a slur and are deeply offensive, particularly to people with intellectual disabilities, and while I'm sure that Chimps would also be deeply offended, it's not quite the same. But I'm sure you know this.
 
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