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erwgv3g34
20hr ago
Working a fulltime job as a cashier, or barista, or whatever is also well within the physical and mental capabilities of a teenage male. That is enough to pay for a room or even a studio. And considering how many families throughout history have been raised in similar or worse conditions... it's really also a matter of our society not being set up that way, not of material impossibility.
In an alternate reality, we could end credentialed education at 8th grade like the Amish do, a boy would either start working directly or apprentice into a trade, then a couple of years later when he accidentally knocks up some girl at 16 he marries her at the point of a shotgun and is able to support both at a low standard of living until he finishes his apprenticeship or gets enough experience that he can find better work.
And, ideally, in that parallel universe we also build more fucking housing and train more fucking doctors so that our standard of living does not keep going down even as the economy becomes more and more productive, the way it does in this world.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
20hr ago
Okay, since you're doubling down on being obnoxious and openly admitting to ban evasion (not that I was in any doubt), bye.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
20hr ago
It is functionally a reward though, and one that people are keen to give to their kids. First because the kid get access to all the benefits of being an American, but secondly that a lot of immigration law can be gamed by having a minor child who is an American. Things like priority for immigration through family connections. Or being able to live in Mexico and send your kids to American schools, or access to American healthcare. There are cases in which women will wait until literally in labor before crossing the border in hopes that the baby will be born in America and be American.
I’m not opposed to granting citizenship to a child born to legal immigrants who have lived in America for years and work and pay taxes and are working toward citizenship. It’s reasonable that if the family moved here and wants to remain that the child gets to be born an American. What isn’t right is a person sneaking in with the intention of giving birth in America and no actual legal connections to America beyond popping out a kid.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
20hr ago
This place isn't really for self-promoting. We'll let people post links to their blogs, but generally not as their first post with no previous participating in the community.
Hadad
20hr ago
You are wrong. If you want to punish me regardless, do so, but you cannot intimidate me into accepting a lie as truth. I survived the previous dozen plus bans, one more is fine.
sun_the_second
20hr ago
The end of the conflict between pure blood anti-immigrationists and their opponents is far behind us. Everyone else doesn't have a leg to stand on other than "the kind of people I don't like look sort of like this, please remove them (other than the good ones of course)". When push comes to shove, I do not expect the winning side to hold to their words of "blood is the most important".
5434a
20hr ago
Can you give us some more details about what the set and setting was for the session?
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
20hr ago
There was nothing wrong with my reply.
I'm telling you there is something wrong with your replies throughout this thread.
You can reject that or ignore me. I'm just informing you of the situation and what the consequences will be if this continues.
Blueberry
20hr ago
Call me a dirt poor europrole, but I would rather get $480K (plus interest/stock increases) when turning 18 years old, instead of my parents paying half a million for Duolingo.
It tickles the mind though how education could be disrupted/advanced by modern tech.
Or maybe it is not so important after all? One comment on the blog claimed that Finland and Japan have similar PISA scores, despite Japan/Asia being famous for forcing children to grind obscene hours for school.
No_one
20hr ago
Drug prohibition is a crime against humanity!
I see people out there getting absolutely wasted on kratom, acting like lunatics, wasting huge amounts of money on it, not washing, being aggressive, getting in fights. Maybe drugs should be legal for people who are not idiots.
anon_
20hr ago
my lawyer was ineffective for not investigating childhood abuse that might’ve been raised at sentencing
Hadad
20hr ago
There was nothing wrong with my reply. He asked I give him personal information. I told him no.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
20hr ago
I understand that 'more abortions for black women(and this is South Carolina)' is your #1 priority
Don't attribute motives to people they have not stated.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
20hr ago
Okay, you're repeating the pattern that got you a warning and then a timeout just days ago, and once again you are filling the queue with reports from people annoyed by your behavior, and with good reason.
This kind of argumentation where you just drop low-effort snarky bird-flipping comments needs to stop. I'm warning you again; next we start applying longer bans.
anti_dan
20hr ago
Pub. L. No. 94-439 § 209, 90 Stat. 1418, 1434 and all similar joinders attached to funding resolutions.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
20hr ago
If might makes right is your morality: so did you. 😇
Hadad
20hr ago
Yeah I don't disagree it sucks and is inconvenient and has risks. It's just they're allowed to make porn access inconvenient and risky.
phailyoor
20hr ago
Especially in abortion ban states, PP operates simply as any other OB clinic. They have doctors, give fda approved treatments, and accept insurance. There is no procedure you can get at PP that you can't get at any hospital. Granted, their doctors are probably more likely to push birth control, but in my ime many doctors at hospitals and ordinarly clinics will do it too.
cjet79
20hr ago
I feel like these burdens should get their own category. It's not really onerous. It's actually very easy to meet the requirement to upload a picture of my driver's license. It's just stupidly dangerous for my well being.
It would be like if airport security asked you to stick your hand into a wood chipper that sporadically turns on to get your fingerprints. There is a helpful little red and green light to tell you when it's safe, but damn I'd rather not trust my fingers to this machine run by minimum wage employees. And of course if my hand gets mulched I'm allowed to sue the judgement proof employees, or the shell company wood chipper manufacturer, but not the government that put the requirement in there in the first place.
Rov_Scam
20hr ago
Great! Let's start with an easy question: Who was the most recent immigrant in your lineage? You don't have to give a name, just tell me their relation to you, the date they immigrated here, the date they naturalized, and the birthdate of the descendant through whom you're claiming citizenship.
I think if you are not allowed to ban something then you shouldn't be allowed to make access risky. All bans are is adding a risk component to a thing. You can at least pretend like onerous requirements serve a purpose. Where onerous crosses over into risky is where I'd prefer courts to draw a line and say "you are just banning the thing, so unless you are allowed to just straight up ban the thing, get rid of that requirement."
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