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by msgodel 360 days ago
It's probably not a good idea to have people on visas attending protests.

Keep in mind I'm very much not pro Isreal, but it's not practical or moral to have foreign partisans participating in our politics that way.
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mandmandam 360 days ago
> > it's not practical or moral to have foreign partisans participating in our politics that way.

That would be called 'freedom of assembly', which is a universal human right (see Article 20 of the UNDHR). Highly moral, most practical, and widely recognized as such.

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queenkjuul 360 days ago
Why would someone on a visa deserve to be denied freedom of assembly?
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lenkite 357 days ago
Because that is the proven way to carry out regime change.
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msgodel 360 days ago
Sorry. No. The idea that you have a right of assembly in a foreign country is completely absurd. I don't know which line of thinking convinced you otherwise but any country that actually chooses to allow that can't exist for very long.
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