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Until 2015 gay marriage was illegal in many states. Plenty here hold pretty nasty anti lgbtq beliefs. This is a bad argument for screening visa applicants for beliefs, and not what this new rule will be used for. It will be used to deny anyone critical of israeli genocide, people who think we shouldn’t destroy the planet’s climate, and people who think women should control their own bodies.





> This is a bad argument for screening visa applicants for beliefs, and not what this new rule will be used for.

And do you think permanent residency or citizen applicants should be screened for their beliefs?


it was for visa while ago

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2012/dec/07/einstein...

even for jewish nobel laureats in physics

why it should be different for more serious things like residence or citizenship?


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What do you call what's happening in Gaza then?

A war, an armed conflict. Started by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups against Israel, on October 7th 2023.

If it's an armed conflict then it started a long time before that. Otherwise Israel wouldn't have built the hilariously named "Freedom Wall".

It's incredibly depressing that the Jewish people have basically done unto others as was done to them. Even if we don't consider it a genocide, then it's definitely a pogrom and Gaza and the West Bank are ghettos. I would have hoped that at least one people might have learned that this kind of stuff is wrong based on their own history.

But i guess all that we learn from history is that no-one learns from history.


“Curate” away the 4k footage of children, doctors, refugee camps being bombed, aid blockades starving people? Must be nice to have your head in the sand like that. Quibble over the word genocide all you want - it is very clearly a genocide unfolding in front of us.

This is not a genocide. It is a war. A war started by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups on October 7th 2023.

This started long before oct 7th, but even if it was started then it wouldn’t make the mass murder and starvation of civilians justified.

Maybe curate your feeds a little better if you actually believe what you’re saying.


If the war started on Oct 7, why were bombs falling on Oct 6, Oct 5 and Oct 4?



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