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Ol Janx Spirit

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5. So, if someone becomes eligible to vote in American elections their voice should not be heard...
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 12:29 PM
Dec 10

...if they weren't born here, but if you are a billionaire born anywhere in the world your voice should be allowed to be elevated as high as the pile of cash you can spend to influence our elections? Got it.

Sadly, the SCOTUS agrees with you Elon, but you should be very careful about making the villagers mad.

Also, the concept of democracy is that the people living in a society should get to determine what laws, rules, framework, etc., they live under. If you are foreign-born but live here and become eligible to vote then why should you not get to participate in the democracy that determines the life you are allowed to live?

Rule of the few over the many is called something completely different there Littler Rocket Man.

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