• It'sbetterwithbutter
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    16614 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah, keeping our shit to ourselves has never really been our strong suit.

      Sorry :(

      • It'sbetterwithbutter
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        5114 days ago

        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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          And fight we do. I’ve considered myself an activist for almost 30 years now. I thought fighting for marriage equality was gonna be hard. I’m really not looking forward to this.

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            The comments are ridiculous.

            People: if ThE cOuNTry sUcks, wHy doN’T aMeRiCAns dO anYthiNG aBOut iT?

            Also people: LoL siLLy aMeRiCAn, AcTiviSm doESn’T wOrk

            We’re damned if we do, damned if we don’t. Keep fighting the good fight. You’ve got a good decade on me, but I see you and I’m right there with you. ✊

          • @[email protected]
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            [X] Doubt

            Lol at the downvotes. Floo is a known troll. They don’t do shit other than go on the Internet.

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            “And fight we do” LOL

            Unleash the devastating power of the Kumbaya warchant on your little stroll to the streets!
            The regime will crumble before your eyes.

          • sunzu2
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            Last 30 years of dismantling of civil liberties and it will continue

            But at least gays got to marry ✊

        • @[email protected]
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          That’s 5% max.
          The Blue MAGA are just as bad for the world, they only cry now bcs they’re getting a taste of their own shit domestically.

          • It'sbetterwithbutter
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            614 days ago

            Depending on where you live in the world America has been pretty bad for a pretty long time. But I agree under this new technofascist oligarchy it will become a nightmare

    • @[email protected]
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      3314 days ago

      As a Native American this attitude would be a lot more understandable and palatable if America wasn’t colonized…

      • It'sbetterwithbutter
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        2114 days ago

        I totally understand your sentiment. Undoubtedly the USA is built on stolen land, much like Israel.

        • @[email protected]
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          All of history is one people taking over another peoples land. I’m not saying its right, but in virtually any part of the world there is a history of some invader or colonizer coming in and displacing or swallowing up the existing people, probably multiple times, down through prehistory as well.

      • @[email protected]
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        1514 days ago

        These immigration raids and terror tactics are terrible on their own, but it’s especially absurd when Native Americans get caught up in it, and it just fully exposes how disingenuous and transparently racist the whole effort is. So I’m sorry that your peoples have to suffer even more because of this racist mindset.

        From a January article:

        ”If you can’t say, ‘we’ve been here for time immemorial,’ then you’re an immigrant. You’re not from here, so who are you to classify our Indigenous people? These lands have been a melting pot for many ethnicities,” Hatathlie [a Native Arizona state Senator] said.

        I heard another more recent example of a car full of Native Americans being pulled over, aggressively questioned, and asked for their papers, but I can’t seem to find it. It’s utterly shameful how we treat people.

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            113 days ago

            The terror inflicted upon Native American peoples has been complete, it seems. AIM is a good example of what happens when you step out of line with the controlled opposition.

  • @[email protected]
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    6714 days ago

    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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      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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        2114 days ago

        I can’t wait to see high attendance in Mexico and Canada-hosted matches, with rock bottom attendance in the US. Even US fans travelling domestically, don’t go, especially to the states that are falling into line with Trump.

        Not that it will actually be recognized for what it is. I may put together a bingo card on the ways media spins it.

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          I’ve been boycotting the world cup for a decade because they can’t stop giving the host status to horrible states

      • sunzu2
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        People should boycott it outright.

        The entire event industry is a front for sex trafficking.

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        414 days ago

        Maybe that will finally kill off the giant amorphous blob of human rights violations known as FIFA

  • @[email protected]
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    3714 days ago

    Seriously, what’s the advantage of having social media? Just seems like a liability with every account.

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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.

      • @[email protected]
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        414 days ago

        Finally a killer app for AI. Create social media profiles and use AI agents to populate them with bland uncontroversial drivel.

      • Highlybaked
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        and then they check their palantir database and see your lying and throw you in a south american gulag

        • @[email protected]
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          I can see a black market for decade old “clean” social media accounts to bypass the system lmao

  • Libb
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    3114 days ago

    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?

  • @[email protected]
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    Sure why not, since my name is Anthony O’Neill. You can find my short form username: Anon.

    What could they find? I bet I’m save.

    • @[email protected]
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      1314 days ago

      I’m betting on the opposite problem,

      We show here you’ve been VERY active. Please have a seat in this chair until we come for you.

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      1114 days ago

      You can find my short form username: Anon.

      What could they find?

      Yes, what possible community full of people named “Anon” could they find that would get you in any amount of trouble?

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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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    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?

    • @[email protected]
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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 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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      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.)

  • @[email protected]
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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.