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byke Added a reply to If you are born here you are ….
1 day ago Are folks calling for the 2a to be amended with every gun law? How many times has the ussc made a 2a interpretation and ruling? Hundreds? If only we could figure out how that happened without needing a hundred amendments...
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byke Added a reply to If you are born here you are ….
1 day ago I suspect we're more aligned with what we want in regard to immigration, but this post is confusing with reality. Are you saying that we should abolish the Supreme Court? Because your post makes no room for them to exist. I don't like overturning rvw either, but that's just what it is. Don't like it, don't put those people in...
byke Added a reply to If you are born here you are ….
1 day ago I think the flaw in that is the presumption of a static society forever. There's nothing unusual about revising an interpretation, nor about evolving interpretations with the needs of society.
byke Added a reply to If you are born here you are ….
1 day ago This sounds like a robotic approach when no other amendment takes such an approach. No amendment is needed and there's nothing inherently wrong with interpretations, thats literally the courts job. Same as how we choose who the 2a applies to, i.e. not 5 year olds and not felons, there would be nothing illogical about determining that the 14th does not...
byke Added a reply to If you are born here you are ….
1 day ago Constitutional purism has never been a thing, otherwise we all get mortars and nukes and can threaten to kill people.
byke Added a reply to If you are born here you are ….
7/3/2026 10:51am Seems like pretty much every nationality has been through the grinder over here at one time or another...some more than others.
Chance1216 Liked a reply to forum topic If you are born here you are ….
7/3/2026 10:41am
Some other relatives I don’t know too well, fled Germany during WWII. They had it the worst from what I understand. Not because of the immigration process but, for simply being German during that time period. The thing most don’t understand is a huge portion of the German people didn’t have a choice but, to fight. It was either fight or, grandma is getting dumped over the balcony in her wheelchair.
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byke Added a reply to If you are born here you are ….
7/2/2026 2:31pm A deadlocked government is the best we can hope for. We don't need any more narcissists out there thinking, "I'LL FIX IT!!".
byke Added a reply to If you are born here you are ….
7/2/2026 1:22pm I haven't read the original transcripts, so I don't know if they were specifically trying to cover the usage we see today, but I highly doubt it. And when you look at the various immigration acts going back to the 1890's, the restrictions they began enacting would fly in the face of such ridiculously low and meritless criteria like "coitus"...
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7/2/2026 1:16pm
From APLMAN99's post: So if someone claims: “The 14th Amendment was intended only for freed slaves.” the historical evidence doesn’t really support that absolute statement. A more historically accurate statement would be: “The 14th Amendment was adopted primarily because of the need to protect freed slaves, but Congress wrote the Citizenship Clause in broader language and rejected attempts to limit it only to former slaves.” That distinction is supported by both the text of the amendment and the congressional debates.
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byke Added a reply to If you are born here you are ….
7/2/2026 12:59pm I'm very surprised they didn't overturn it. The issues surrounding what should happen to slaves after the civil war, which is very specifically and narrowly why the 14th exists, are no longer relevant. There would be no harm leaving the 14th in place for future slaves once bezos/gates/zuck/elon/theil privatize the government for profit, but I don't see how the 14th...
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7/2/2026 9:42am Early 20's? It got harder in 1924 because of concerns that stemmed from ww1. There was no more "just show up and you're in" type of immigration and they started capping the number that could enter. You either had to either be kinda lucky, persistent, or rich. The 50's were about the same as post-1924 and it's all way more...
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7/2/2026 9:29am
Peru/Argentina in the 50’s Germany/Ireland in the 20’s
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byke Added a reply to If you are born here you are ….
6/30/2026 4:42pm Do you know when they came here? My family came from Italy in 1891 and immigration was a joke. You just needed a little cash, an address to go, not be obviously sick to avoid quarantine, and be willing to declare that you're not a polygamist or anarchist. Then you just live and work for ten years and apply for...
byke Added a reply to Old movies
6/26/2026 1:54pm Big +1. Many movies are overrated imo, but Casblanca is suuuuper good. I love all the characters and undertones between them. Been a while since I've seen it, but OP's recommendation 12 Angry Men was a good one. Soylent Green was really good, though kind of borderline for "old" I guess. Cool Hand Look is excellent. I can watch that...
LoudLove Liked a reply to forum topic Old movies
6/26/2026 1:43pm
Casablanca. The rapid fire delivery and subtle humor is fantastic.
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avidchimp Liked a reply to forum topic Old movies
6/26/2026 1:43pm
African Queen, Bridge over the river Kwai, so many more....
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Kenny Banyan Liked a forum topic Old movies
6/26/2026 1:42pm
I have a excellent recommendation… “12 angry men” It’s from 1957 a black and white, Henry Fonda is the lead actor and the film is loaded with familiar actors when they were young Jack Klugman is in it also. My hope with this topic is for members here to give some old movie recommendations if you have any.
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byke Added a reply to Tucker quits Republican party
6/25/2026 5:58pm He's always gone where the money is and right now is no different, but that has no bearing on what's true. Trump is an obscene liar, but that doesn't somehow turn the true things he says into lies. The common denominator is all of us, where we seek imperfections in order to dismiss things that make us unhappy. That's the...
Chance1216 Liked a reply to forum topic Trump says "Iran agreed to everything"
6/24/2026 4:13pm
People wanna ruin threads arguing whatboutism. I’ll ruin it with hot chicks. I got the day off and, a little down time so….
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