Irido

14th Amendment extremist.

[Grace Cathedral Park @gracecthdralprk]

Resist the Sun Belt. Remember the flinty, cold people who dreamed of a just society in New England and the Upper Midwest. Fight back against America B

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

“Silence is violence” is possibly the worst woke 1 idea, pretty much guarantees you end up with a bunch of very loud people who have no idea what the fuck they’re talking about

[Jerusalem @JerusalemDemsas]

A @TheArgumentMag reader just emailed me an English translation of a "Guide to New Americans" given to his mother, a Serbian refugee, that she was given in the emigration camps before coming to the US.

"You are coming to live under a system of government based on the dignity and freedom of the individual"

[Irido @irido8]

If only the Democrats at large could learn from the actual pragmatists in the party

[sam @sam_d_1995]

Elon’s DOGE: recklessly fires critical government employees and has to rehire many of them, kills hundreds of thousands of people, saves almost no money

Zohran’s COGE: makes it easier to build housing and transit, helps small businesses, modernizes hiring practices

[Irido @irido8]

@jakesgoodopines Khanna doesn't even have particularly crazy policy positions tbh, he just straight up doesn't seem to know what he's doing or what's going on a lot of the time

[Irido @irido8]

@1Chillwind @SwannMarcus89 Platner is running as a Democrat, and the ineffective performative wing I'm describing both excludes some DSA members, e.g. AOC, and includes some normal Democrats, e.g. Gottheimer, Manchin.

[Irido @irido8]

@xwanyex Seems like it has a very clear meaning: if you're high enough conscientiousness and forward-planning enough to figure out how to make it to America while 9 months pregnant to get your kid citizenship, your kid would likely be a good citizen.

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

the synthesis between the obnoxious far-left "America is an ontologically evil nation built on white supremacy" belief and naive "America is da best" belief is that America is defined by its liberal principles constantly struggling against its original sin

[Irido @irido8]

@LinkofSunshine Absolute lion

[Sami Gold @souljagoyteller]

This July 4th, considering the rhetoric from some of the right on here, let us remember that the Continental Army, after the year 1777, became mostly recruits from the poorest of the poor, including immigrants who didn’t speak English. Without them, the Revolution would’ve been lost

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

Read Wittgenstein. Read Carnap. Read Austin. Read Quine. I'm begging you, just read the theory.

[constans @constans]

WTAF? This is a sad fall of what used to be a decent newspaper. Now they’re just pandering to the right because they think that’s “reasonable”

Which just goes to show how extreme the “establishment acceptable discourse” has become

[Irido @irido8]

@CooperZurad This is the way things have been for over 150 years. During that time, America has risen from being a backwater to the greatest country in the world. What's so bleak?

[🅱️askerville @WB_Baskerville]

The right wing reaction to the birthright citizenship ruling suggests that they didn’t anticipate it as the extremely obvious, overwhelmingly likely outcome that it was, which tells you something about the information environment they’ve been boiling their brains in.

[Irido @irido8]

@PSA_Sitch Birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment more broadly are *the* reason that America is a different and better country than every other country in the world.

[Irido @irido8]

Like they actually thought that a few years of manufactured consent and court appointments and commissioning reports at the Heritage Foundation could overturn the entire bedrock of the United States of America. Lmao

[Irido @irido8]

It's kinda difficult to overstate how pathetically deluded modern "conservatives" were for thinking they'd be able to overturn the 14th Amendment if they elected their choice reality TV star president

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

Several ways forward here given the choice of Roberts/Barrett to nullify the 14th Amendment and extra-constitutionally replace it with their own language:

1) Nullification. States issue birth certificates, and they can just stop issuing them to non-citizens. Roberts/Barrett can deal with the fallout and litigate each birth individually.

2) Pack the court. If Robert wants to be a politician who writes laws instead of a judge, then he can fight with 10 more unelected legislators in robes.

3) Deny entry to all pregnant foreigners.

4) Deny entry to all female foreigners.

5) Require sterilization of all foreign visitors prior to entry.

6) Dissolution of the Union. A nation which can’t even restrict who gets to be a citizen isn’t a nation.

7) Amend the Constitution. This is pointless, because once a judge decides he can rewrite the Constitution at will (as Roberts and Barrett did today), the actual text is meaningless. But this is what most GOP politicians gravitate towards because they are useless.

If you think all these options are not great, understand that that is what happens when unelected judges decide that they are in charge of the country and get to write its laws.

[Irido @irido8]

"The Civil War was fought so illegals and Chinese spies could drop anchor babies in America"

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

Everyone telling you that the Civil War was fought so illegals and Chinese spies could drop anchor babies in America hates you and wants to steal your country from you. They are civilizational squatters, and you owe them nothing but disdain.

[Irido @irido8]

@magi_jay "Spoiling" is not a word people typically use to refer to losing the primary, conceding the primary, and then endorsing the winner of the primary.