09milk
5d ago
birthright citizenship is certainly something that is uniquely American that I completely forgot about when I write my comment
forgive my ignorance, why is US counting non-citizens for electoral college and house seats after abolition of slavery?
09milk
5d ago
as a non American, I unironcally think the best way for ICE is only enforce the immigration law in cooperative states, focus on state with support
this will force illegal immigrant to move to non-cooperative states, basically the "free NYC migrant bus" policy on a larger scale
The spirit of the law is clear, but you can't enforce the spirit of the law.
Isn't jury of one's peers in essence trying to enforce spirit of the law instead of enforcing the letter?
09milk
22d ago
I feel like the existing "de facto partner" help distinguish between 'wife'/'husband' and 'partner', government mostly just use partner as a result of trying not to discriminate de facto relationship compare to standard marriage
09milk
24d ago
Home defence? Yes Street? No
As a non-american, to me bringing firearm out of home as civilians comes with higher than normal responsibility and expectation from society of you are not expected to use it, while police are required and expected to use lethal force in certain situations with the risk of misjudging can mean their own life
In my opinion, a better solution will be to increase police responsibility on lethal/non-lethal force usage AND responsibility of failing to respond, while simultaneously increase their pay level to balance out these increased responsibilities
If medical doctor's training and responsibility give them such a high wage, police's training and responsibility should be on a similar level with similar pay
09milk
24d ago
For all the nerds who enjoy playing video games, there is a FPS game called Ready Or Not which involve disarm criminals who either captured civilians or disguised as them, while it is only a game and hurting civilians only lower our score, we can also restart if we die, it do give me and my friends a new perspective on what pressure police is under in these situation
One main pressure is, you never know if someone is armed and potentially kill you before you restrain them, people can comply all you orders all day long but one last non-compliance and kill half of your team
In my opinion we don't pay police enough for them to risk their life in these situations, rationally they should always shoot first given any legal justification
From an outside perspective, this seems unambiguous in the way that, illegal should be counted, as the wording distigush between a person and a citizen, which is totally fucked.
This should be changed, I am sure tourists and legal foreign students do not count, right, right??
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