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PaperclipPerfector  9d ago (text post)   2574 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 29, 2025

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So! There's a tiny chance I'll be booted out of the US because 5 decades ago my parents were illegal immigrants and the SCOTUS might agree they were foreign invaders, thereby yanking my birthright citizenship.

Meanwhile, right-wing nativist Chuds in my parents' country have decided they think bloodline-based citizenship is the actual menace and are taking steps towards ending it.

I don't really want to live in the old country, but to add insult to injury it's narrowly possible I'll lose residency in the US while my kids become ineligible for residence in the old country and navigating that sounds really unpleasant.

This is really speculative of course. But for peace of mind, are there any decent countries that I can buy a citizenship in? Either cash money or via "investment"? The obvious contenders like Cyprus and Portugal seem to have scaled back the enticements recently.

Meanwhile, right-wing nativist Chuds in my parents' country have decided they think bloodline-based citizenship is the actual menace and are taking steps towards ending it.

What is the reasoning here?

Your report was obnoxiously unfunny and we have to deal with enough spurious and bad-faith reports on posts.

Normally I'd leave it at that, but you have a history of this kind of obnoxious trolling, so banned for a day. Knock it off.

Too many undesirables from Brazil using it to resettle, apparently.

Fascinating. Are they agitating to reset jus saguinis?

I can see that being a valid approach for a Westphalian nation-state, every couple hundred years or so as its culture slowly shifts.

“Everyone who is here right now, and has some percentage of original stock blood, gets to be a citizen. Everyone outside that circle, you are more not like us than you are like us so we don’t want you anymore.”

Presumably you would get some churn in the population genetics without experiencing a total overturning of the original culture.

Could work out.

Doesn't seem like the best idea if you have declining fertility because you can't even get your own domestic original stock bloods to reproduce.

You eventually have to make up the deficit with foreigners and it's better to have foreigners with domestic great grandparents than no relation at all.

I will just say that I think fertility is a bit of a crisis in a lot of places, but not necessarily in the way people think.

If the concern is “Lowered fertility makes the GDP line stop going up,” that’s not a crisis. GDP lines should be allowed to fluctuate up and down as populations grow and shrink. It’s not the end of the world, especially in the nuclear age.

From that standpoint, there is no deficit that needs to be made up with foreigners. The native population will organically wax and wane over time if not interfered with. It’s only when a lot of foreigners are brought in that a native population might begin to feel pressured to spur increased fertility rates as a way of not being boxed out by invasive newcomers, which creates a fertility crisis.

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