joel

╮（￣▽￣）╭ . Grock is a Crok

Inveterate Typoist.

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@vintagemapstore Another good question is what would’ve happened in the “Old World” without the benefits from the Columbian Exchange? Likely, there would have been the same endless cycles of war, famine and disease, but Europe’s progress would certainly have been stymied.

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@SlappyMcBappy @vintagemapstore There’s an abundance of evidence your mental model of preColumbian North America is completely wrong.

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@rittmeister_11 @EWErickson The problem was not that slavery was new. The problem was that it was antithetical to the universal values and principles proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in our Constitution.

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@HogheadJBone @sallyDillo6428 @David_J_Bier There’s been no final resolution or completed investigations of those cases.

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@iubkelley01 @Depl0rableSc0ut @RonDeSantis Today the U.S. can prosecute tribal citizens for major crimes in Indian Country, so tribal citizens are fully under U.S. jurisdiction. Tribal sovereignty still exists, but federal criminal authority now applies everywhere, which meets the 14th Amendment jurisdiction requirement.

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@iubkelley01 @Depl0rableSc0ut @RonDeSantis But if a tribal citizen robbed a bank in U.S. territory, the U.S. prosecuted them the same way it prosecutes a foreign national today. Sovereignty was a legal fact, not a metaphor.

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@TedBaxterKnows @nickgillespie @damonroot @reason They wrote the 14th Amendment to solve the citizenship crisis of their time. It wasn’t meant to anticipate every future territorial situation. If the wording no longer fits modern realities, it’s up to this generation to update the Constitution through the proper process

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@gettym @doobsdad @NewReaganCaucus They certainly were not hoars. You’re being rude.

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@constantutional @RonDeSantis Hey, I’m just out here trying to help you shovel 💩.

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@jamesryan @matt9875 @RegretfulSam @NewReaganCaucus Especially if they’re waltzing.

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@gettym @doobsdad @NewReaganCaucus “Hoards” are what cross “boarders?”🤔

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@constantutional @RonDeSantis -"Dropping" babies isn't necessarily the same thing as birth.
-Are the aliens legal persons under the constitution?
-Are they invaders? Are they under US jurisdiction?

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@ppyrek1 @TheGuyOverThere @ksorbs @GOP I’m reporting what happened, including apparent inconsistencies. I’m not excusing anything.

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@patt_texan @ksorbs There is no way those people intended to create a special class of Constitutional citizens, while citizenship for everyone else would be defined only by statute.

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@ppyrek1 @TheGuyOverThere @ksorbs @GOP The distinction used there was the territories are not considered “in the United States” Constitutionally speaking. It’s a questionable doctrine created by the Insular Cases, esp. considering people born the western territories before Statehood were always considered citizens.

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@DGDtheSequel @MariGO2thepolls Agree with the first part, agnostic on the second.

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@JCNSeverino @TND What about ordinary voters?

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@RonDeSantis It wasn’t unheard of at the time:

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@RonDeSantis Birth tourism is not constitutionally mandated. Immigration can and has been regulated. If the people want to exclude the children of illegal aliens, then the constitution should be amended.