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There Is No Good Reason You Should Have to Be a Citizen to Vote
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Posted on 07/29/2021 8:41:30 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe

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To: Regulator

Older than that with LBJ’s Box 13


61 posted on 07/29/2021 9:17:23 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

62 posted on 07/29/2021 9:17:26 AM PDT by CtBigPat (The time of Crisis is ending. Now comes Normalization.)
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To: Tell It Right
There Is No Good Reason You Should Have to Be a Citizen to Vote

Typical liberal: Argumentum ex ignorantia,

i.e. I don’t know why x is true, therefore x is false. Logic in the NYT rarely gets better.

63 posted on 07/29/2021 9:18:06 AM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: a fool in paradise

Born 1986, so answer is yes.

BTW, I messed up my post; she was born in Vancouver, Canada and raised in Switzerland. She currently lives in Brooklyn IINM.


64 posted on 07/29/2021 9:19:55 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Once you can vote, by extension, why can’t you run and serve?


65 posted on 07/29/2021 9:20:41 AM PDT by Coffee... Black... No Sugar (“Salute the Marines.” - Joe )
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To: Tench_Coxe

Here is a compromise offer: All aggrieved non-citizens will be allowed to leave immediately (felons can leave after they have served their criminal sentences).


66 posted on 07/29/2021 9:21:39 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Tench_Coxe

There is no good reason why the NYT should continue to exist.

A country consists of citizens. People passing through are visitors.

The NYT wants this country destroyed, and all Whites eliminated after their money is confiscated.


67 posted on 07/29/2021 9:23:58 AM PDT by I want the USA back (To find out who really rules you, find out who you're not allowed to criticize. Voltaire. )
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To: Da Coyote

Paint murals in the street in front of their homes! Watch the property values drop.


68 posted on 07/29/2021 9:24:45 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: rbg81

Yeah - I’ve heard that too. I countered with why then can’t we take part in China’s political system then?

Then they blocked me. :)


69 posted on 07/29/2021 9:27:01 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Tench_Coxe

If you’re a non-citizen, no one is keeping you here: Return to your homeland and spare us your bitching.


70 posted on 07/29/2021 9:28:37 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Tench_Coxe

By the authors logic, that non-citizens are impacted by elected official choices, why restrict the franchise to residents?

We can just open up our elections to everyone around the world! After all, we impact other countries, so it’s only fair they vote for who is in charge of us.

/s in case it is not blindingly obvious.


71 posted on 07/29/2021 9:29:06 AM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
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To: Flavious_Maximus
Why don’t we allow it for all who live here?

Good idea. However, I would restrict the vote for illegals to those originating from countries that allow US citizens to vote in their elections - a "reciprocal" right. It's only fair, or should I say, it's a matter of equity.

72 posted on 07/29/2021 9:29:25 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Tench_Coxe

“ At that point, life becomes what you can obtain by force of arms. ”

Well, duh…and who is now in control of all the arms? I don’t mean your personal security weapon…I mean the big fire, the stuff that can wipe out entire civilizations.


73 posted on 07/29/2021 9:31:06 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: Erik Latranyi
There Is No Left Case for Nationalism

Endorsing nationalism isn’t compromise. It’s compromised.

ALSO By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

SOROS OPERATIVE

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/open-borders-nationalism-angela-nagle/

74 posted on 07/29/2021 9:33:39 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Tench_Coxe
Citizenship should mean something.

If you want to vote, become a naturalized citizen.

If you prefer to keep one foot in this country and the other in your home country, then you don't get to vote here.

-PJ

75 posted on 07/29/2021 9:35:53 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Tench_Coxe

She should vote with her feet and move to a country where she can set the rules


76 posted on 07/29/2021 9:36:36 AM PDT by sopo
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To: Tench_Coxe

This stupid twit is free to vote in her own country’s elections.


77 posted on 07/29/2021 9:37:26 AM PDT by PortugeeJoe
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To: Tench_Coxe

” what is the point of having a country if the the franchise is expanded to *everyone*, including those who have no stake in the consequences of an election?”

It’s analogous to public housing.

Give someone free or subsidized housing and look what they do to it.


78 posted on 07/29/2021 9:40:35 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Tench_Coxe

Why vote at all, if non citizens can vote? Doesn’t this greatly reduce the value of citizenship is non citizens vote, as they do not have the same concerns in governance and life as legal citizens? And if being a citizen is diminished so much, why do the Democrats want to import aliens to replace the current citizen voters?

The answer is that the take over of the US, and the establishment of a totalitarian “one party” state is ongoing. Non citizens will vote so that no one needs to vote, as the Democratic Fascists will take care of total control of all our lives. Think of the time and money saved by eliminating all elections, the Democrat’s ultimate goal.


79 posted on 07/29/2021 9:44:53 AM PDT by Richard Axtell (As if.)
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To: drop 50 and fire for effect

Ask her why only the US should have to expand the voter rolls this way.

Also ask her how many countries’ elections she is currently voting in.


80 posted on 07/29/2021 9:49:43 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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