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Daughter: 「だって、じゃあたんざくの意味がないじゃん」
Daughter: But, in that case tanzaku are meaningless aren't they?
Dad: 「いいのっ」
Dad: It's okay
Daughter: 「なにさ、おとうさんはすぐいいのって言うんだから」
Daughter: What! Because you say it's okay?

I understand すぐ to mean soon/immediately etc. I can't understand what it means in this context.

My guess it that it adds the meaning 'just' as in "am I supposed to believe it's okay just because you say so?". But that's a complete guess and the link with 'soon'/'immediately' seems very tenuous.

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    なにさ！ is more like an interjection, like ふんだ！なによ！なんだよ！もう！ etc. Both なにさ and ～だから！ here express 不満、不平、or 苛立ち etc. (irritation, complaint, dissatisfaction).
    – chocolate ♦
    Commented Apr 23, 2017 at 7:15

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「すぐ」, in this context, means "readily", "very easily", etc.

If you do or say something habitually without thinking, we say you すぐ do or say something.

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  • So, "because you keep saying ..." would be a natural translation?
    – user3856370
    Commented Apr 22, 2017 at 14:45
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    @user3856370 It could if the frequency is that high... Besides, there's a hidden misunderstanding taking this から as "because" japanese.stackexchange.com/q/18986/7810
    – broccoli forest
    Commented Apr 22, 2017 at 15:19

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