President Neelix tries to void birthright citizenship through executive order

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In any case, I was briefly banned, but managed to get my account back. Haven't posted there in ages, though. Which is a shame because I had had this awesome timeline idea where Jedi and Sith end up in 1920, shifting the balance of power forever.
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Yukaphile wrote: Sun Nov 04, 2018 3:14 am I had had this awesome timeline idea where Jedi and Sith end up in 1920, shifting the balance of power forever.
That's a cool idea for a setting. Might make a fun RPG campaign.
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No kidding. Bane allies with Hitler, Vader and Sion with Stalin, Mace Windu busts some heads in the South, Nihilus begins razing cities in the North, and Luke, Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Anakin, all from different points in the same timeline, meet at Stonehenge, a Force nexus.
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I sent a reply to Worffan via PM because we're getting rather off-topic now. If you want to continue this conversation a separate thread in another, more suitable forum is advisable. I'll even move your posts over to it if you wish.
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Yukaphile wrote: Sun Nov 04, 2018 3:03 am That was only a small part of it, though it's not prejudice so much as a determination to try and get people to accept when someone does something bad, in all corners of the world, they had every opportunity to choose not to do so. It was a conscious decision. Though obviously for people who don't believe in free will, I can't help them. No, regarding AH.com, I think a much larger part had to do with my feelings towards the 2016 election and Bernie Sanders.
Out of personal interest, what was your username on AH.com?

EDIT: Ah, sorry, didn't see the mod message, will take this to PM.
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Yeah. Let's stick to the topic.
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Birthright citizenship is such a fundamental human rights issue I'm still shocked and sickened by the xenophobia of nations that don't have it.

If you are born somewhere, you should count as a legal citizen of that place. No amount of elaborate hypotheticals revolving around pregnant tourists overrides that basic imperative.
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Well, that's human nature. We tend to overcomplicate everything.
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Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: Sun Nov 04, 2018 9:52 pm Birthright citizenship is such a fundamental human rights issue I'm still shocked and sickened by the xenophobia of nations that don't have it.

If you are born somewhere, you should count as a legal citizen of that place. No amount of elaborate hypotheticals revolving around pregnant tourists overrides that basic imperative.
Because ... ?
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Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: Sun Nov 04, 2018 9:52 pm Birthright citizenship is such a fundamental human rights issue I'm still shocked and sickened by the xenophobia of nations that don't have it.

If you are born somewhere, you should count as a legal citizen of that place. No amount of elaborate hypotheticals revolving around pregnant tourists overrides that basic imperative.
dude, I'm pretty sure that MOST countries don't have birthright citizenship these days.

Unfortunately, it's still a pretty radical idea, even though it objectively made America great.
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