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Society

X-ians btfo

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN no big deal, kinda used to it from frequenting dive bars in my early 20s 💁

I'm not, like, totally heartless or anything. Like, I'm not gonna get mad if Ukrainian war orphans get temporary asylum. But I'm generally against permanent migration.

Even in the case of useful skilled workers, there's no need to let them stay permanently. Just give them work visas that last as long as they're useful. @Trashboat

Yeah, when I was 17, a Jewish photographer wanted to take pictures of me and set me up with his son. Kept asking my mom if I was allowed to date at 17. Like he wanted it arranged lolol

uhhhhh you sure you weren't getting groomed?

I can't btfo anyone's religion. Sincere believers wouldn't care anyway.

@Logan they do check you've been baptized though at certain points

Bro, all I am saying is that I can understand why the Euro immigrants came here in the 1800's.

like you need to show a baptismal certificate and confirmation certificate to get married

Maybe the churches I’ve gone to are lax af, no one’s ever checked on what I believe or if I’ve been baptized 🤔

Thanks, Jacob, never thought of it that way.

@Nerv - VA The delis are rad and very worth patronizing if you ever see one

@ThisIsChris that is bigoted af

how can they literally in current year so disheartened and shaking rn

I mean, I understand, but I still disagree with it @Trashboat

That is the case for a catholic church wedding is it not? @ThisIsChris

My dad came here on bogus refugee status, so I feel the need to make up for it by fighting against it

@Trashboat yes it is

That is true justice, Jacob.

Makes sense

I also needed to post a public notice that I was getting married, so that if anyone knew that I had been married at another time or was ineligible for any other reason that they could inform the Church and stop the wedding.

That's based imo

@ThisIsChris pretty neat that churches still have some rights over who they allow to participate. Would be nice if we could get them back into politics.

@ThisIsChris or run down the aisle yelling "I object!" when the priest asked for dissenters. Do they still do that?

Didn't they used to do blood tests when people were getting married?

@Nemets ^

I have a hard time believing that @Selma

My QUITE OLD mother tells me something like that.

My parents did the marriage blood test

Really?

oh and my mom came here through chain migration

Now you should definitely order a chromosome test *ba dum tsh*

and I was an anchor baby

wow what a mess

What’s the blood test for?

@missliterallywho you get to choose from a fixed set of formulas, that's one of the choices but we didn't choose that one

Tldr an rH neg mother may not be able to bear multiple rH pos babies without rhogam drug

Oh yea, I thought rH neg was super rare.

You know how your black friend can give you an n-word card? I can give a an "anchor baby" card so you're allowed to say "anchor baby".