crzwdjk ✅ 11h ago
Chris Ammerman

Hey. Nations are made up. Citizenship is made up. Naturalization is made up. We have these things because this is the social contract we grew over hundreds of years.

The idea of an immigrant becoming a citizen is no less legitimate than the idea of someone being born a citizen. They are both and equally legal constructs that exist because things were worse without them.

If an immigrant can be denaturalized, then anyone the government wants to be rid of can be denaturalized.

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Show threaddiana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱15h ago

@cammerman

Billionaires love to make us aware of their borders, like electric fences to keep livestock, that's exactly what we are to them, to be bred, worked, culled, and to serve at their pleasure. I wish I was joking, but to billionaires, we are temperamental livestock. Both definitions of "revolting" are used to describe us.

Show threadDon Hawkins - W7DAH14h ago
@cammerman @Binder Fook ALL “gubbermints”.
Show threadLicho11h ago
@cammerman it's not that many hundreds. It's just post french revolution thing. So barely like 3 centuries.
Show threadradioactivestardust11h ago
@cammerman i wish i could reboost this in capital letters.
Show threadthree tigers in a trench coat11h ago
@cammerman No nations, no borders.
Show threadChuck10h ago
@cammerman I don't disagree that this is all "made up" but it is useful to realize that it has been "made up" because it solved some very serious survivability problems for humans. The ability of a nation-state to expel you as persona non grata was also to solve a problem. Governments committing crimes is the OG problem. The current best solution is a liberal democracy, citizen participation, and the rule of law applying to everyone.
Show threadTane Piper ⁂7h ago
@cammerman see my header image. I've had that since Twitter days - it's outlasted my avatars