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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] 12 year old British born girl punished for celebrating
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:54:31 -0400
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On 7/20/2025 5:08 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Jul 20, 2025 at 1:54:01 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 7/20/2025 4:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>   moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>   On 7/20/2025 2:21 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>   On Jul 20, 2025 at 11:20:16 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>   On 7/20/2025 1:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>>   On Jul 20, 2025 at 8:08:39 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   On 7/19/2025 6:16 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   Once again, you interject an observation that is not on topic or even
>>>>>>>>>   comprehensible to normal people. I don't know where you come up with
>>>>>>>>>   these. I can only assume this is some bizarre way of proving how wise
>>>>>>>>>   and worldly you think you are.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   Example:  Someone who's "proud to be an American" likely had little
>>>>>>>>   choice in the matter and thus has little basis for pride.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   Of course they have a choice. No one's stopping anyone from leaving and
>>>>>>>   renouncing their citizenship.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   "...had..."
>>>>>
>>>>>   No one was stopping anyone from leaving and renouncing their citizenship in
>>>>>   the past, either.
>>>>
>>>>   Says little about pride.  Most live in the state where they were born.
>>>   
>>>   That doesn't mean they have no choice in the matter.
>>
>> True, if I tell you at gunpoint to eat wasps, you still have a choice...
> 
> Yes, because people are being held at gunpoint and prevented from leaving
> their state of birth.
> 
> Great analogy!

If I'd intended an analogy, "gunpoint" would refer to the enormous 
inconvenience and stress surrounding a change of citizenship ...enough, 
incidentally, that overcoming it might be a source of pride.