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Re:Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now... by darksaints on Thursday September 12, 2019 @06:43PM (#20957248)
> Every nation must have the right to choose the people it wishes to assimilate and those it doesn't. I should not be allowed to go kicking in doors and demanding acceptance. This is the fundamental basis of sovereignty.

I don't necessarily disagree with this notion, but it has its limits. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, Sodomy laws, and voting restrictions on females have all been reflections of sovereignty...and they were all fucking terrible decisions. And they were eventually overthrown not by a peaceful process of deliberative change, but through massive grassroots dissent that was absolutely illegal in every respect.

If our sovereign decision is to decide that we don't want rapists and terrorists in our country, I don't have a problem with that. But if terrorist or rapist becomes conflated with brown people, restricting all of their entry regardless of their individual merits, that's gonna be a big fucking no from me dawg. I will gladly and willingly help subvert those laws, because they are unjust laws motivated by pure racism. They deserve to be subverted.

Re:Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now... by oh_sigh on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:11AM (#20960155)
What if it were "we don't want poor, unskilled people"? Is that really anyone's fault either?