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NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:20:11 +0000
From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] 12 year old British born girl punished for celebrating British culture
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On Jul 21, 2025 at 8:54:31 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> 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 ...

So people decide to stay where they because they can't bother. Not because
they're forced to.