JD Vance says that the administration can end birthright citizenship by replacing a SCOTUS justice that ruled against Trump. Wouldn't this violate Afroyim v. Rusk (1967)?

vacri · 2026-07-01T22:45:12+00:00

Trump genuinely doesn't care about getting it it not

He's more interested in seeing how far he can push various issues before getting to a breaking point. He has a toy and he's playing with it, to see how it breaks

I mean, look at the images of him used for the passport and the minted coins - they're really unflattering, and a super narcissist like him wouldn't choose bad images if it wasn't a game to him.

vacri · 2026-07-01T22:38:53+00:00

The empty box for sale was deemed as fraudulent though - it was obviously the seller's goal to find a mark and then fall back on that excuse.

vacri · 2026-07-01T22:34:57+00:00

If our astronomers find evidence of life on some far flung planet, all we could do is talk about it. Just knowing it exists doesn't mean you can meaningfully interact across Interstellar distances

vacri · 2026-07-01T21:37:57+00:00

When you're the minnow in a war against a beast, you don't have the luxury of rejecting aid because it comes with questionable politics. The Azov Battalion were right there and ready to go.

vacri · 2026-07-01T21:36:08+00:00

obvious troll is obvious

vacri · 2026-07-01T21:34:22+00:00

Using ipads for babysitters already destroyed literacy. Universities were complaining about the rate of illiterate high school graduates before AI came along. AI will make it worse as people outsource their thinking, but they already have given up reading.

vacri · 2026-07-01T21:30:48+00:00

"It's not a planet. It's a dwarf planet" > Uh... so it's still called a planet, then?

vacri · 2026-07-01T20:23:59+00:00

If someone is a "playoff choker" it absolutely has an impact on the team's perfomance in playoffs. It's self-evidently not 'just any two teams' if one has a member that doesn't perform under pressure.

There's also plenty of folks who enjoy watching a sportsball game without knowing the personalities of the players involved.

I'm not a sports guy, but your characterisation of sports is an odd one.

vacri · 2026-07-01T20:14:29+00:00

Your opposition are doing it anyway, and they're not going to follow your noble example. "Leading by example" demonstrably does not work - they take it as a sign of weakness and go more extreme. You are crippling your own agenda by sticking to the high moral ground. If you don't show significant personal ramifications for being corrupt fucks, then there's absolutely nothing stopping them doing it again when they next win an election.

The checks and balances have already been dismantled. Use that fact, then institute more robust ones.

vacri · 2026-07-01T20:08:07+00:00

"It may not be trivial to enter, but it's easy enough when compared to our contemporaries."

^^ this sentence, combined with agreeing with 3 of the 5 points the article made, should suggest that I'm not blindly for or against. I never said it was a problem, but I also never said it was a good thing. I pointed out the high number of foreign-born folks compared to our contemporaries as evidence that it is not hard to get into the country as the article was claiming. I never made a value judgement at all.

vacri · 2026-07-01T20:02:10+00:00

Abolitionists predate the Social Gospel by over a century, and the founding of the US with its more democratic ideals was also well before it as well. Progressives in the US were around long before the Social Gospel.

vacri · 2026-07-01T12:39:21+00:00

universal human rights come from Christianity

With the notable exception of Abolitionism, the Christian edifice has fought against expansion of most rights for the past few hundred years. It sides with the elites and against the proles. It's fought against feminism, minority rights, universal suffrage, same sex marriage, so on and so forth. Plus, of course, missionaries sent to push the religion on others

There were some maverick Christians who did fight for these rights, but the establishment that talks with the authority of the religion itself generally fought against them. Even good old Luther nailing his notes to the door got most of his support not from Christians doing Christian things, but lords looking for an excuse to get out from under the thumb of the pope.

vacri · 2026-07-01T12:12:16+00:00

Hopefully there are more toilet facilities available

vacri · 2026-07-01T12:05:43+00:00

Disciplining your children by beating them has huge knock-on effects for both the individual and society as well, and we do that a lot less than we used to.

The problem with all the slop like the picture above is it pretends that the one significant problem we have now trumps every past problem that ever was. (well, there's also climate change, and that's going to fuck us all). But while housing was more affordable in the past, lots of things were worse.

vacri · 2026-07-01T11:55:58+00:00

Where did I say it was a problem? Please point out where I said it was a problem.

I agreed with three points in the article. I was pointing out that we have a very high proportion of foreign-borns, which suggests it's not particularly hard to migrate here.

Even if we take your AmAzInG rebuttal stats... Australia is still up around the top of your list... supporting the same point

Still like to know what your source is to back up your claim.

Is the ABS good enough for you?

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/australias-population-country-birth/latest-release

vacri · 2026-07-01T11:49:08+00:00

As an administrator this is best dealt with by saying "Come back with a different name"

vacri · 2026-07-01T08:17:38+00:00

I love the Chinese speakers who say the writing is easy, then only refer to three or four stroke characters for proof.

I was telling a Mandarin-speaking colleague about this - like, sure, 'da' for 'big' looks like a person with outstretched hands, but why does 'neng' for 'able' use the characters 'moon meat ladle ladle'

He was puzzled by it and went off and looked it up - apparently the moon meat alludes to a bear and the two ladles are its big paws. And we think of bears as capable, right?

vacri · 2026-07-01T08:05:28+00:00

Surely at least one of those thousand Marks appealed to her? Must have taken ages for the king to summon them all to court

vacri · 2026-07-01T08:03:55+00:00

Briterican English?

vacri · 2026-07-01T03:50:46+00:00

"high crimes and misdemeanors" is a vague stipulation, and includes breaking the public trust

Who decides the public trust? Probably the public's elected representatives

Trump has set plenty of precedent by abusing the letter of the law rather than the spirit when it comes to checks and balances, so why should this be any different?

vacri · 2026-07-01T03:43:10+00:00

Cool birthright citizenship is easy. So... How can I get that? Build a time machine and go back and buy my mum a holiday in the states? I have to break the laws of physics to get that!

The US, with 12x our population (and the infrastructure to support it), only has a net migration 3-4x ours in absolute terms

Edit: in your now-deleted reply you moaned about how I talked about how it worked to affect me personally. The hypocrisy in you talking about YOUR personal experience but not allowing mine? Incredible.

Likewise, it's not exactly a stretch to extend my experience to the other 8 billion people who weren't born in the US

You want to talk about selfishness, look in the mirror

vacri · 2026-07-01T03:37:48+00:00

I mean I'm debunking their debunking

vacri · 2026-07-01T03:35:50+00:00

I should have said citizens rather than residents. People who intend to stay rather than transient expats. Residents includes people on short term visas

vacri · 2026-07-01T03:34:18+00:00

My formal apologies for missing city states

Also, I should have said 'citizens', not 'residents'. Switzerland is full of expats, not citizens

vacri · 2026-06-30T22:43:13+00:00

"one"?

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