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Cedrine Kerbaol Space Program @aih.bsky.social

You're the one who made the implicit assertion that immigration controls were a necessary condition for statehood, an assertion that is utterly untenable in face of even the most cursory knowledge of the history of immigration laws in the US or very nearly everywhere else.

aug 24, 2025, 4:52 am • 0 0

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Solid Gold Robot @solidgoldrobot.bsky.social

What country in the world is going to let you just walk into their nation?

aug 24, 2025, 4:56 am • 1 0 • view
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Cedrine Kerbaol Space Program @aih.bsky.social

What's that got to do with anything? Is does not imply ought, in my day they covered this shit in high school.

aug 24, 2025, 4:58 am • 0 0 • view
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Solid Gold Robot @solidgoldrobot.bsky.social

You think all the countries in the world are fascist?

aug 24, 2025, 4:59 am • 1 0 • view
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Cedrine Kerbaol Space Program @aih.bsky.social

I think their governance structures incorporate elements of fascism, yes.

aug 24, 2025, 5:01 am • 0 0 • view
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Cedrine Kerbaol Space Program @aih.bsky.social

I don't see why the modern world makes immigration controls any *more* necessary for statehood than they were 150 years ago.

aug 24, 2025, 4:55 am • 0 0 • view
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Cedrine Kerbaol Space Program @aih.bsky.social

If states could defend their independence and enforce their laws internally with the much more limited admin and coercive capacity they had then, surely they can do so just as well now. If you have an argument otherwise, please make it.

aug 24, 2025, 4:55 am • 0 0 • view