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Ian Against the Machine

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Writer, editor, North American scum. Remember this: Try.

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Ian Against the Machine@alkalinian.bsky.social · last mo.

At 250 years old, the Declaration of Independence remains a fundamentally radical document, and one that is fundamentally incompatible with American movement conservatism.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last mo.

The right-wing attack on birthright citizenship is not just about birthright citizenship itself. As MAGA’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling proves, it is part of their opposition to a broader ideal, that “All men are created equal.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Elsewhere, less tactful conservatives expressed directly what the dissenting justices chose to do in euphemism. Stephen Miller, who runs immigration policy for the Trump administration, told Fox News that “we have people from all over the world, from third-world nations, nations that on their own would have never invented the wheel, let alone modern technology, let alone medicine, let alone air travel.” He went on: “They can just come into the country, have a baby at a hospital paid for by you and me, and then that baby is automatically a citizen? That baby can sit on a jury when he turns 18 and sit in judgment of you and sit in judgment of me and sit in judgment of our loved ones? Can decide who our mayors are? Our governors are? Our presidents are?” Miller’s long-standing view is that what ruined America was the repeal of eugenics-inspired immigration restrictions that had banned immigration from Asia and Africa and from nations in Europe deemed to be composed of lesser white races. There is very little difference between Miller’s position—if you come from a “Third World nation,” you are inferior—and that of antebellum Democrats and the opponents of the Fourteenth Amendment at the time it was adopted: American citizenship is degraded by having to share it with the biologically inferior. The justices are elite lawyers with the ability to obfuscate this project and ignore its aims, but the rest of us need not pretend. To put it bluntly, Miller’s objection, as articulated here, is not to birthright citizenship. It is to the idea that “all men are created equal.”
Tyler, from the Internet@tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2y ago

Are you a writer? Do you own: *Piles of notebooks that you'll never throw out or open again *A book on how to write a book a family member gave you *Mug of pens with the clips broken off *An oxford comma hot take *Rejection collection *Trauma over an unrecoverable lost project *Imposter syndrome