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RT Curse (@encoresalad)That anyone is welcome in the US if they pay taxes is so violently reductive, it makes US citizenship indistinguishable from a gym membership. Anyone can be American if they pay a membership fee to the government in the form of taxes. This is why there are at least five or six "Americas" within the geographic boundaries of the United States - we have nothing in common with each other except that we all pay taxes. We're merely an arbitrary grouping of people whose only bond is that we ...