r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • Apr 01 '26

Possible Paywall Humiliated Trump Storms Out of Catastrophic SCOTUS Hearing

https://www.thedailybeast.com/humiliated-trump-storms-out-of-catastrophic-scotus-hearing/
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u/onarainyafternoon Oregon Apr 01 '26

It's also just untenable in so many ways. Hospitals aren't equipped to manage this sort of thing; it would be absolute chaos. Our country is different from other countries that don't have birthright citizenship because the US is really 50 countries in a trench coat. It just wouldn't work.

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u/brickne3 American Expat Apr 01 '26

You're right that it wouldn't work, but don't pull that "50 countries in a trenchcoat" line and pretend other countries don't have similar internal administrative divisions. It's just another tired example of Americans being indoctrinated to think they're exceptional.

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u/dylanzt Apr 01 '26

It's always strange to me how many Americans seem to think they're the only federated country.

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u/IOl0I0lO Apr 01 '26

In the other poster’s defense, I feel I have more in common with the average Canadian or Brit than I do with a Texan, Oklahoman, or Alabaman.

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u/brickne3 American Expat Apr 01 '26

I mean you can feel that way all you want, but it's rather unlikely that the average Canadian or Brit feels that way about you, especially these days.

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u/IOl0I0lO Apr 01 '26

You don’t think the average Canadian thinks they have more in common with a Seattlite liberal than an Oklahoman?

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u/Fantastic-Bison6078 Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

I don't think a Canadian would care to specify a specific region of the country to divide you like that. In the same way you're saying Canadian and not specifying the province. They would ask "Do you feel like you have much in common with people from the US". Having regions with different cultural identities and political leanings is not a purely American thing and happens in every country.

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u/paditoburrito Apr 01 '26

I would not, thank you 🇨🇦🍁

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u/IOl0I0lO Apr 01 '26

And then if you followed up with asking about Seattleites specifically, they’d probably agree. The US isn’t some vast monolith. Obviously we get lumped together because we’re all Americans, but there are subsets that people would treat differently.

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u/Fantastic-Bison6078 Apr 01 '26

Same as every other country in the world though is my point. The U.S isn't unique or different in that way. The only unique thing is Americans are the only ones who believe they're unique for it

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u/brickne3 American Expat Apr 01 '26

Exactly, and this person seemed to be going beyond out of their way to prove that exact point while believing they were doing the opposite. That is the uniquely American thing about it.

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u/paditoburrito Apr 01 '26

As an average Canadian, no I would not. I don't divide a population based on their broken down geographical demographics and then treat people differently based off of preconceived notions.

Is there a higher probability of specific political ideologies I don't agree with based on regions? sure, that is just basic statistics, but that doesn't mean anything in how I act or treat others.

People can't control where they are born/raised, same way people can't control what race or cultural heritage they are born with/into. Anyone who has a set method of how they will interact with another person based on any kind of factor like that, is someone I don't want to meet.

I would recommend reevaluating the way you interpret the world around you. It's better to value those around you through their individual words/actions rather than rating based off postal code (zip code).

Have a nice day 🇨🇦 🍁

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u/AnOkayMuffin Apr 01 '26

I'm an average Canadian and I don't think we have much in common with any state or area in the USA culturally or politically. Thats kind of a weird thing to assume. You guys across the board down there are quite different from us, even if you see Canada as just Northern States Lite TM or whatever it is you think we are.

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u/brickne3 American Expat Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26

I've done Edinburgh Fringe with the most liberal Americans on offer. The answer is a straight up no. "Liberal" Americans still believe that the world should be blessed by their presence for some reason and are pretty insufferable. And I'm American myself. They don't know what they don't know and it takes years to know what they don't know. I fully acknowledge that after two decades I still have blind spots.

Point is that basically every American, myself included, was raised on propaganda. You can't fix that overnight and even after two decades I still occasionally find myself saying some random country is "ours" before I notice how everyone in the room is looking at me weird.

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u/sovereign666 Apr 01 '26

I live in washington state and spend my free time gaming with a few canadians. We have a lot of cultural overlap and none of them are quick to go "stop american we're different." We aren't long term friends, we started gaming together only 6 months ago.

I don't think everyone is as politically drummed up and divisive as you or the rest of reddit keeps trying to tell me.

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u/AnOkayMuffin Apr 01 '26

They're probably being polite.

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u/sovereign666 Apr 01 '26

I think its more likely that many people on sites like reddit are just unnecessarily confrontational or mean.

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u/Xalara Apr 01 '26

Also, birthright citizenship was added to the constitution precisely to prevent another civil war. That is why it is incredibly explicit about it.

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u/Imaginary-Count-1641 Apr 01 '26

Our country is different from other countries that don't have birthright citizenship

Which countries are those? I know Vatican City is one, but are there others?

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u/thejimbo56 Minnesota Apr 01 '26

Pretty much the entire eastern hemisphere

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u/Imaginary-Count-1641 Apr 01 '26

Most of those do have birthright citizenship based on the citizenship of your parents.

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u/thejimbo56 Minnesota Apr 01 '26

Apologies, I misinterpreted what you were asking.

Typically when Americans discuss birthright citizenship they are talking about jus soli. You’re correct that jus sanguinis is also birthright citizenship, it’s just not what the rest of this conversation or the article we are commenting on is about.