Republicans May Get Gay Marriage Repealed

[brnbk]

On 10/15/2020 at 5:53 PM, BootmanLA said:

Anyone can ask you to do anything, whether or not it's legal for you to do what they ask.

In a prior post on another topic, you bragged about having "voted both sides and still in the middle". Were you referring to voting in another country, where it's legal for you to do so? Or was that a confession that you vote illegally here? 

In that topic, you also made a comment about what "this country" needs to do, electorally - do you think that's really appropriate if you aren't a citizen? I have no idea where you ARE a citizen, but I can assure you I'm not going to tell the voters of that country how they need to vote.

In yet another post, you referred to the United States of America as "our country". If you are not a citizen, why do you consider this "our country"?

I am curious, do you still feel the same way  about the US and see the United States of America as your country, now that the US has started  "porn removal" from your state, Louisiana and I understand that this site, BZ, is effectively banned in Louisiana. 

Do you realize this 'country' of the United States is built on a  ideology of "native removal" and the religious belief that the  christian God had asked and indeed, authorized the white race to kill native Americans, and steal  their lands and their wealth, since they where not white christian Anglo-Saxon protestants! 

If you can read this, I would love to know, if you still feel immigrants to the United States, have a right to call it 'our' i.e. their country especially since your country, unlike others, is almost entirely made up of immigrants, and built over the holocaust of native Americans. 

 

[BootmanLA]

On 2/16/2023 at 10:39 AM, brnbk said:

I am curious, do you still feel the same way  about the US and see the United States of America as your country, now that the US has started  "porn removal" from your state, Louisiana and I understand that this site, BZ, is effectively banned in Louisiana. 

Do you realize this 'country' of the United States is built on a  ideology of "native removal" and the religious belief that the  christian God had asked and indeed, authorized the white race to kill native Americans, and steal  their lands and their wealth, since they where not white christian Anglo-Saxon protestants! 

If you can read this, I would love to know, if you still feel immigrants to the United States, have a right to call it 'our' i.e. their country especially since your country, unlike others, is almost entirely made up of immigrants, and built over the holocaust of native Americans. 

 

I assure you I understand far more than you give me credit for, and as someone whose history studies through graduate school specifically covered the period in which of that "removal of the natives" occurred, I am much more aware than the average American voter.

It is not that I feel immigrants don't have the right to call out the United States for its sins - and lo, those sins are legion. In fact, I don't get where you think I said anything of the sort. I called out a *specific* individual ('NatureBoy', who seems to have left the site after making a series of shitposts) who made some contradictory, if not misleading, statements about his voting participation here.

And I called out his *specific* suggestion, as a non-citizen, as to who those of us who ARE citizens should elect. It's one thing for a Briton or Frenchman (or whomever) to criticize any policy of the United States, particularly on moral grounds. It's another thing to tell citizens of that country for whom they should vote.

And I called him out for saying, in a prior post, something about the United States where he referred to it as "our country", and yet he specifically identified himself as not a citizen here.