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Re: by jameshilliard on Thursday October 02, 2025 @11:57PM (#45458812)
> The most basic principle in democratic government is that those subject to the monopoly of violence should also have a voice in how that violence is managed.

I'm pretty sure most democracies also have a right to decide who can become a citizen. Forcing a country to give citizenship to enemy combatants would be kinda crazy, regardless of whether or not the territory those combatants operate from is under a military occupation.

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Re: by immibis on Friday October 03, 2025 @02:28AM (#45459669)
Isn't that basically the USA regime's logic for stripping citizenship from people who vote against the regime?
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Re: by jameshilliard on Friday October 03, 2025 @02:40AM (#45459762)
The current USA regime is attempting all sorts of dumb nonsense, but birthright citizenship certainly isn't universal among countries either. I'm not a citizen of the country I was born in.
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