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Look no further than the dissent to United States v. Wong Kim Ark (when the Supreme Court ruled that the passage you cited grants citizenship by birthright), written by Chief Justice Melville Fuller, the mastermind behind such legal opinions as:

• Racial segregation is completely legal (Plessy v. Ferguson)
• States can't regulate workplace conditions or enact maximum working hours laws (Lochner v. New York)
• Income tax is unconstitutional (Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust)

Anyway, he wrote:

the children of Chinese born in this country do not, ipso facto, become citizens of the United States unless the fourteenth amendment overrides both treaty and statute

and

[Birthright citizenship means] the children of foreigners, happening to be born to them while passing through the country, whether of royal parentage or not, or whether of the Mongolian, Malay or other race, were eligible to the presidency, while children of our citizens, born abroad, were not.

So in other words, he was willing to rule that the constitution is optional as long as you are using it against undesirable races in order to get his way.

There are two principal races of the Britons, the Caledonians and the Maeatae, and the names of the others have been merged in these two. The Maeatae live next to the cross-wall which cuts the island in half, and the Caledonians are beyond them. Both tribes inhabit wild and waterless mountains and desolate and swampy plains, and possess neither walls, cities, nor tilled fields, but live on their flocks, wild game, and certain fruits...They dwell in tents, naked and unshod, possess their women in common, and in common rear all the offspring. Their form of rule is democratic for the most part, and they are very fond of plundering; consequently they choose their boldest men as rulers....They can endure hunger and cold and any kind of hardship; for they plunge into the swamps and exist there for many days with only their heads above water, and in the forests they support themselves upon bark and roots, and for all emergencies they prepare a certain kind of food, the eating of a small portion of which, the size of a bean, prevents them from feeling either hunger or thirst

—Cassius Dio

Most of Britain is marshland because it is flooded by the continual ocean tides. The barbarians usually swim in these swamps or run along in them, submerged up to the waist. Of course, they are practically naked and do not mind the mud because they are unfamiliar with the use of clothing, and they adorn their waists and necks with iron, valuing this metal as an ornament and a token of wealth in the way that other barbarians value gold. They also tattoo their bodies with various patterns and pictures of all sorts of animals. Hence the reason why they do not wear clothes, so as not to cover the pictures on their bodies. They are very fierce and dangerous fighters, protected only by a narrow shield and a spear, with a sword slung from their naked bodies. They are not familiar with the use of breast-plates and helmets, considering them to be an impediment to crossing the marshes. Because of the thick mist which rises from the marshes, the atmosphere in this region is always gloomy

—Herodian of Antioch

Very many who dwell farther inland do not sow grain but live on milk and flesh, clothing themselves in skins. All the Britons paint themselves with woad, which produces a dark blue color; and for this reason they are much more frightful in appearance in battle. They permit their hair to grow long, shaving all parts of the body except the head and the upper lip. Ten and twelve have wives 16 common among them, especially brothers with brothers and parents with children; if any children are born they are considered as belonging to those men to whom the maiden was first married

—Julius Caesar

It's not just for decoration. You can use it as a legitimate pointing device. Nudging it will move the mouse cursor and tapping it with your fingernail is clicking.

It takes some getting used to but you can definitely use it for normal office tasks if you wanted to. That being said, I still personally prefer a mouse. But I have known some people who like using the nipple.

Even if we were starting from scratch, ignoring the historical connotations of this flag, it would be regarded as racist and utterly unsuitable for use as a Chinese national symbol. The colours represented what were, at the time of its creation, the five recognised ethnic groups of China, those being, from top to bottom, Han, Manchu, Mongols, Muslims, and Tibetans.

The modern Chinese state recognises fifty-six ethnic groups. This is also not counting the aborignial peoples of Taiwan, all of whom the Chinese government consider to be collectively "Gaoshan people" but which the Taiwanese government considers 16 different ethnic groups, potentially more depending on who you ask.

Yes, the great Chinese empire is as diverse as any.

Even if you only include ethnic groups with more than five million people, that's still ten different groups, and a ten-colour flag would be pretty jarring, to say the least, with one very famous exception of an 11-colour flag that is still rather aesthetically pleasing. And, of course, as the meme would imply, people pretty much automatically assume that any flag with lots of colours arranged in a horizontal bar represents an LGBTQ identity. LGBTQ acceptance is pretty low overall in Mainland China compared to Europe or North America so I don't think the prospect of allowing the Americans to mock a future Chinese national symbol as a "gay flag" will go over too well.

On a barely-related note, this flag redesign idea is found pretty frequently on the Chinese Internet and seems to be popular with Mainlanders.

Can't say whether it would go down well with Taiwanese people though.

Those who don't use it are only mildly annoyed by it, but those who use it will raise holy hell now that it's gone.

Mario doesn't look right

Vance looks like a dip shit. Trump's photo is quite hard though, not going to lie. It looks like the photo of the corrupt evil dictator of a dystopian revolution movie.

Oh wait...

Dennis! There's some lovely filth down here!

I liked the pre-season more.

Oh well. I must confess though, watching a 1.5 hour video to make sure I didn't say something they already said didn't seem like an appealing proposition to me.

I see. That's not technically the first sentence though. I stopped looking once I got to line 6.

What's the spelling mistake? I didn't see it.