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Only citizens have the right to vote. That’s just common sense
It’s absolutely insane that a country can massacre the native population, steal their land, and then create citizenship laws and deny people things such as voting rights based on their citizenship status
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Anonymous 4d

Why should citizens have more of a right than permanent residents without citizenship?

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Anonymous 4d

You asf

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4d

If you don’t have your citizenship then you can’t legally be a permanent resident

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4d

OK, sorry I’m not familiar with how permanent residency works legally in the US so let me do more of a hypothetical that’s more clear Say there’s an immigrant who has been living and paying taxes for 5 to 10 years. He doesn’t plan on moving back to the country he immigrated from and he’s allowed to be there. He’s just simply not a citizen. What is the harm in extending the right to vote to people like this? These are people who clearly bring benefits to society and to American culture.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4d

You make your entire side’s collective argument weaker when you rely on ad hominem arguments.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4d

Op is literally trying to argue theres no way to be a permanent resident without being a citizen. That’s just not true, and my comment is. Be mad

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4d

It’s also Yik Yak I don’t think people take this seriously in terms of having formal debate

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4d

I didn’t even engage with OP’s argument. All I said was that using ad hominem arguments reflects poorly on yourself and the arguments you choose to defend. You can stay hostile and defensive as much as you want, but you’re ultimately undermining the very thing you’re preaching and then wondering why people disagree with you

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4d

Baby idgaf. I don’t respect people who are too stuck up their own asses to do a simple google search

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4d

You’re too stuck up your own ass to conduct yourself properly. You know what I’m telling you is right, but your ego doesn’t allow you to admit that anyone other than yourself is correct. Enjoy the narrow minded life which you’ve confined yourself to

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4d

Again idgaf. And I will, I actually very much enjoy not having bigots in my life.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4d

Never heard of a green card dumbass?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4d

If you define bigots as lacking narrow mindedness, then you’re just giving them a positive trait

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4d

No I define bigots as “idiotic and hateful people” like racists, homophobes, xenophobes, maga republicans etc

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4d

Seems like you for your own definition. You’re too hateful to hold a civil dialogue, and you’re ignorant because you refuse to engage yourself with foreign or conflicting ideas. Congrats, you’re a self-labeled bigot

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4d

I’m a bigot because I refuse to hang out with idiots and racists? Okay hon whatever you say 💀

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4d

And I can hold civil dialogue, I’m choosing not to rn bc holy fuck op is stupid

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4d

There’s a difference between “hanging out” and engaging with their ideas. You’re clearly not familiar because you do neither and it contributes to that ignorance

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4d

I’m literally a leftist from WV but go off more about shit you don’t know 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4d

Lmaooo how does that have anything to do with what’s at hand?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4d

I grew up a queer leftist in a conservative Christian family in a deep red state. Do the math yourself

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4d

The card of choosing not to talk to bigots being bigotry is hilarious whenever a conservative tries to pull it, one doesn’t control their sexual identity, gender identity, color of their skin, etc., but one does control their political views, it’s a choice to choose to dislike entire ethnic or gender based groups

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4d

You can absolutely be a permanent resident without being a citizen. Wet foot dry foot is repealed now but it gave any Cuban to make it here permanent residency. On every damn job application you’ll ever apply for, you can select permanent resident. Like #2 said, it’s a green card. My aunt is a permanent resident bc she doesn’t wanna give up citizenship in Ireland or England to be a US citizen.

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