I don’t care what your politics, threatening to take away citizenship of people who naturalized because you don’t like their politics, does not make any immigrants feel better. No one should have the ability to take away anyone’s citizenship
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I don’t care what your politics, threatening to take away citizenship of people who naturalized because you don’t like their politics, does not make any immigrants feel better. No one should have the ability to take away anyone’s citizenship
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Not to mention how the fascists absolutely want to do this too.
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@skinnylatte the issue with Space Karen is that his whole naturalization appears to be based on fraud.
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@jonstahl I agree. I hate him too. But in the entire history of this country, has anything like this ever worked out without also harming people with far less power?
They’ll do that with people they accuse of marrying for citizenship and things like that, much more than they’ll actually do this to him.
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@skinnylatte Can we make an exception for Elon Musk? Pretty please?
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@kyozou I’m skeptical that power like this will ever be used against the powerful instead of the powerless. I feel like that’s pretty core to the behavior of this country
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Anything like what? Prosecuting people who openly admit they have broken the law?
I refuse to accept that progressives can’t enforce the law because fascists will abuse the law. Fascists will always abuse the law no matter what we do.
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@skinnylatte So, yes, you're right. Revoking citizenship should be unthinkable. The appropriate remedy should be to prosecute him for the fraud and subsequent secondary frauds. Specifically in Musk's case, his security clearance, likely his government contracts, and possibly some subsidies and spectrum licenses.
The problem is that's not the existing remedy. The existing remedy is to revoke citizenship. So not doing that is the special treatment.
