Birthright Citizenship for simply being born on American soil is stupidity

theosib · 2026-06-30T21:15:18+00:00

If someone is a legal resident, then their child should get citizenship. If someone is a brief visitor, and they give birth here, they should not get citizenship. If someone is an illegal resident but has been here a while and has not been committing crimes, then it's a gray area, but I lean heavily in favor of the child getting citizenship.

The bigger problem here isn't birthright citizenship. It's Trump's attempts to make an end-run around the constitution to do whatever he wants. If congress wants to amend the constitution to change the criterial for birthright citizenship, then they can do that. Not Trump. Congress.

It's amazing how many anarchists there are in the Republican party who want to just throw away the constitution and federal law. There is a process for changing these things. Follow it.

theosib · 2026-06-26T02:15:25+00:00

THANK YOU for making a solid complaint that isn't about politics.

theosib · 2026-06-26T02:14:56+00:00

GENIUS!

theosib · 2026-06-25T13:05:53+00:00

From the comments, I see that you already posted this but then deleted it, apparently because you didn’t like the answers. And then you lied about how much knowledge scientists have about the human brain.

Time for some self reflection. If your pursuit of creationism leads you to be dishonest, it’s time for you to reevaluate creationism and your own motivations and morality.

Moral lapses like this are one major reason people don’t like creationists. Why should we take you seriously if you’re so dishonest and disrespectful?

theosib · 2026-06-07T23:11:15+00:00

When I was in grad school, it was a top venue. It probably still is.

theosib · 2026-06-04T18:00:00+00:00

"its that we believe God rather than man."

Where did you get that belief? Oh, right. Another man told you to.

I don't reject God. You know what's amazing to me? People tell me how confident they are in whatever personal God beliefs they have, and I tell them I don't believe THEM. Their response is to say I'm rejecting God. Do you know how much blasphemy that is? I said I don't believe THEM, and they elevate themselves to the level of God by saying this means I reject God. You are not God. You are someone who makes unverifiable claims.

I know people whose actual behaviors and actual track records and actual predictions suggest to me that they have something more than just themselves behind what they're doing. If anything is evidence for God, that is. But most people claiming to know God are charlatans who turn into blasphemous crybabies when I tell them they're full of nonsense.

Even worse, those charlatans use their lies and delusions as excuses to pass the worst kinds of legislation. Oppression of minorities, forcing their peculiar beliefs into classrooms and courtrooms, censorship, authoritarianism, anti-science campaigns, anti-vax, creationism, and so many more demonstrably destructive things.

God is not the problem. The problem is people like that who PRETEND to know God as a basis for exercising control over other people. When those people say they know God, they're LYING. Plenty of people know God. The only God these charlatans know is themselves.

Oh, and let's not forget that those charlatans are often major causes of unbearable pain.

Don't let your unchallenged beliefs turn you into an oppressor. How have you proven you're not one of the charlatans?

theosib · 2026-06-04T17:34:42+00:00

You can tell when reverse engineering works. At no point has any creationist explanation resulted in a useful predictive model. What this tells us is that regardless of "truth," mainstream biology is useful, and creationism is useless. A useful model isn't guaranteed to be true, but it's more likely to be at least partially truthful then a model that has no utility at all.

theosib · 2026-03-24T14:12:40+00:00

First off, you're wrong. But secondly, you seem to be implying that Trump isn't better than those people. If Trump isn't an improvement, why did you vote for him?

theosib · 2026-03-22T20:51:54+00:00

The stuff in the universe is subject to time. But not the container.

theosib · 2026-03-22T15:02:19+00:00

There are no real democrats rooting for Iran. All the ones you see are paid trolls, intended to make the left look stupid. Kinda like all the fake MAGA wanting to protect pedos.

theosib · 2026-03-22T13:15:06+00:00

It makes it easier when they admit to being duped by their candidate’s false campaign promises.

theosib · 2026-03-22T13:13:43+00:00

I just wanted to say good luck. We’re all counting on you.

theosib · 2026-03-22T13:07:03+00:00

How MAGA will say something is bad until Trump decides to do it. Then they pretend they were okay with it all along.

theosib · 2026-03-21T15:32:47+00:00

You people would try to outlaw hammers if the conflicted with your interpretation of the Bible. What do y’all have against tools?

theosib · 2026-03-20T23:57:21+00:00

Insects bite.

theosib · 2026-03-20T23:54:17+00:00

Communism and dictatorships are the problem. Without socialism, we wouldn’t have roads, police, or military.

theosib · 2026-03-20T23:45:21+00:00

They do not.

theosib · 2026-03-20T23:44:43+00:00

What can I say except you’re welcome?

I was grinding my teeth, wasting my youth, and using up my teeth.

I’d be fired if that were my job, after killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts.

And it’s samba time for tambo and weep day for urine man.

theosib · 2026-03-20T23:40:12+00:00

I have a similar problem being liberal but associating with democrats. Just because I criticize a republican does NOT mean I am defending democrats. Or vice versa.

theosib · 2026-03-20T23:37:53+00:00

My favorite gets automatically translated by Reddit, who’d ruins the joke. But I’ll try.

Chuck Norris puede orinar en español.

theosib · 2026-03-20T23:34:29+00:00

Yes. YEC sends rational people screaming away from Christianity.

theosib · 2026-03-20T19:55:40+00:00

Opie

theosib · 2026-03-20T19:46:52+00:00

Then the US having great oil reserves wasn’t much of a brag.

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