• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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      There are still countries even worse than the US.

      And I think you’re underestimating the strength of an immigrant’s will to take risks to attempt to find a better life. Immigrants have suffered far worse throught US History.

      I mean, just take a look at Wong Kim Ark. Dude didn’t just give up and leave, he stood his ground and fought though it, even though he had no idea if the US would even consider his case seriously.

      And many people already have relatives in the US. So these are the risks they are willing to take to reunite. Unlike many westerners, who just completely give up on the slightest obstacles.

      (Although I do think the much better option now is the EU, if they don’t have any relatives in the US already.)

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    Ideologically unaligned visitors need not apply. Got to keep America pure, without the pesky freedom of subversive thought.

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      It’s a chance for everyone visitors to practice right think.

      While looking for a link, I found links that make me think some folks are trying to unironically reclaim the term “right think”. Gross.

      Too many people aren’t reading 1984 anymore, while billionaires thought it was a “how to” guide.

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      Same, but it worries me that now I look like I’m hiding something.

      I guess technically I am hiding something: It’s disdain. Disdain for shitty social media is what I’m hiding.

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    This is kind of stupid. I don’t even remember social media tags I’ve used. Who would want to go through this shit to get into redneckville?

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      This was explained to me years ago. They don’t give a fuck about what you said. They want you to lie, in case they need to fuck you up. If for some reason they want to screw you, they’ll look for these uids, and if you hadn’t declared, they’ll slap perjury charges on you.

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      Exactly, they are talking about dozens of names. Who on earth would remember that, let alone want to share it.

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    This is stupid. This will not stop spies and terrorists, they will just create fake accounts. This will only hurt legitimate immigrants.

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        What I said can be applied to any type of visa. The policy is not going to fix anything, it’s only going to invade peoples privacy and turn away legitimate visa applicants.

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    America is such a fucking joke it’s no longer funny. I wish we could isolate the rest of the world from your madness but unfortunately we can’t.

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      Yeah, keeping our shit to ourselves has never really been our strong suit.

      Sorry :(

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        As a Middle Easterner, I genuinely feel sorry for the non maga Americans, but unfortunately that’s your fight to fight.

        Good luck.

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      The attendance for the next FIFA cup was already looking bad, and I can’t imagine the US government wanting your history of online activity to help it even a bit.

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      Make a fake one that posts like… idk post random tech stuff that you could be reasonably interested in. Make nothing critical of authority. As a decoy profile.

      Then you can rant about big brother on an anonymous Lemmy Account over TOR.

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    Of course, how would they know if you don’t list any? Oh, that’s right, PRISM. Fully expect that people who don’t have social media accounts to get accused of having them simply because someone else shares the same name and did say First Amendment protected stuff, like Donald Trump is a terrible fucking president and should be impeached.

    Sorry person with the last name Erdude. I guess you aren’t getting into the US now.

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        I don’t think that matters.

        It doesn’t matter if you are trying to overthrow, say a US Adversary like Russia or China, its still counts. I guess the logic is: If you are willing to use violence in [Insert Country Here], how do we know you wont try it here?

        A lot of the initial supporters of a revolution/coup gets purged so they don’t become a threat to the new authority themselves. Like hitler and the S.A. for example.

        MAGAt supporters are just useful idiots, if they successfully fully take over, those same supporters now become the new threat that needs to be purged.

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          if they successfully fully take over, those same supporters now become the new threat

          Quite a few of the current crop of deputized ICE agents are MAGA goons from four years ago. So long as you’re actively doing the gruesome work of ethnic cleansing, you’ll be given a pass.

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    in other news, the market price of hacked credentials for MAGA-friendly social media accounts:

    📈

    note

    in case it is unclear to anyone: the above is a joke.

    in all seriousness, renaming someone else’s account and presenting it to CBP as one’s own would be dangerous and inadvisable. a more prudent course of action at this time is to avoid traveling to the united states.

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    They want to stay by themselves? That’s fine by me. But then they should also stop exporting their Hollywood and streaming turds (as well as their shit food). That would only be fair. And maybe also stop behaving like if they owned the entire planet?