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Except that you run into the argument that if a certain degree of merit is required to get the benefits of America if you immigrate from another country, why should those benefits be given to those who immigrate from inside an American women when they demonstrate that their merit is not enough to give back to the country than what they are given. Should pure luck determine that those born outside our country have a much worse life than the 90% of Americans who presently should thank their lucky stars that their mom happened to live in the US?

You’d need to subscribe to a very robust form of Luck Egalitarianism to have this thought. For a strong analysis/rebuttal of this kind of egalitarianism, I recommend reading Elizabeth Anderson’s essay What’s the Point of Equality. https://www.philosophy.rutgers.edu/j...thAnderson.pdf

That said, the idea of a pure merit-based means of determining citizenship is probably equally dumb.

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04-25-2024 , 06:20 PM

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I think you may be misreading my thoughts on this matter. I believe that if you possess some neat headset that you want to give away, you should prefer to give it to a teenager living in Cambodia who is planning to be a dentist than an American teenager who could do the same but instead plans to work at Walmart and then watch TV while high the rest of the day. Not wanting to reward someone for good luck is different than going out of my way to help everyone who has bad luck.

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04-25-2024 , 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Luciom

What you don't get, is that those masses didn't receive any state welfare when they were let in the country. Nothing

What you don’t get is that you’re prob wrong and even if you’re not, the state used these people as soldiers in the states conquest for power. Without the vast numbers of immigrants Americans recruited since 1776, we wouldn’t have been able to help win the wars against the Germans.

Also people used to get free land just if they could get to it. Don’t tell me there wasn’t free welfare. Smart guy

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04-27-2024 , 04:14 AM

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04-27-2024 , 04:18 AM

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Originally Posted by d2_e4

I feel this thread has veered from its true calling, which is obviously discussing the most efficient vehicular methods of dispensing with the red menace. OP keeps trying to hijack his thread for his own ends, but just ignore him.

What do we think of this bad boy?

That's for pussies.

This is what you want.

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04-27-2024 , 04:37 AM

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Originally Posted by corpus vile

I was coming here to post this myself. Best New Rules segment I've ever seen, I think I agreed with every point made.

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04-27-2024 , 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by corpus vile

That's for pussies.

This is what you want.

Luciomtopia is just like I imagined it.

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04-28-2024 , 09:57 PM

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Cv, why have I never heard of this movie? Is it bad or a cult favorite?

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04-29-2024 , 08:51 PM

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Cv, why have I never heard of this movie? Is it bad or a cult favorite?

Dead Reckoning is the name of the vehicle. The film is called Land Of The Dead.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Dead

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04-29-2024 , 09:32 PM

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Thanks chill, I am a buff of bad action movies.

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05-01-2024 , 10:12 AM

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Dead Reckoning is the name of the vehicle. The film is called Land Of The Dead.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Dead

Damn, that came out in 2005? Based on the clip I would have guessed 1985 at the latest.

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05-01-2024 , 10:25 AM

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Damn, that came out in 2005? Based on the clip I would have guessed 1985 at the latest.

Luciomtopia is not what we would call a "front runner in state of the art technology".

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05-01-2024 , 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by campfirewest

Damn, that came out in 2005? Based on the clip I would have guessed 1985 at the latest.

same exact thoughts

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05-01-2024 , 02:51 PM

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Damn, that came out in 2005? Based on the clip I would have guessed 1985 at the latest.

The first film in the series came out in the 70s, and they seem to have mostly tried to keep the same esthetic for the many sequels.

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05-01-2024 , 04:36 PM

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Thanks chill, I am a buff of bad action movies.

Sorry, missed your post it's more of an action horror film but pretty entertaining.

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05-02-2024 , 08:46 AM

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The first film in the series came out in the 70s, and they seem to have mostly tried to keep the same esthetic for the many sequels.

First was actually in 1968, although my personal favourite of the series actually is from 1985. Special FX are still pretty jaw dropping 40 years later.

South Park recreated a scene from it as a homage in their living dead homeless episode (1:50 in music vid)

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05-02-2024 , 09:10 AM

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Yeah the original Night of the Living Dead came out in 1968, but I think the general esthetic of the series started with Dawn Of The Dead in 1978. The first one was extremely low budget and wasn't even in color!

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