• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    If the Dems aren’t running on abolishing ICE and completely dismantling the police state, now, they’re setting up to throw the 2028 election.

    • That Weird Vegan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 months ago

      your freedom of speech is fine, as long as you don’t say anything bad about shitler

      oh damn. I guess i can’t go somewhere i wasn’t gonna go anyway. Woe is me.

  • redlemace@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Dear lord!!! Just tell me what you don’t wanna have, it’s way shorter!

    Oh wait … you can’t even pay me to go there! Would an employer demand me to go there, I’d quit on the spot.

    • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 months ago

      People born in the 90s:

      At age 10: I want to move to USA to live there!

      At age 30: Traveling to USA seems to be too dangerous. I’ll pass.

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        10 months ago

        That’s me. Wanted to move there because software engineer. Now I’m 30 and fuck no. Major changes would need to happen and even then I’m not sure I’d feel safe. It’s not the damn shootings that bother me even, it’s that so many people support Trump and ICE. Those people will still be around even when Trump is gone. Meaning at any time the US could elect a less incompetent version of Trump.

      • kazerniel@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Haha this was me, except even around age 20, when I moved to the UK, I was thinking I might want to move to the USA later in life. But the more I’ve learned about the country since, the less I’d want to live there. The gun mania, the religion mania, the actual political options being all squeezed into the centre-to-far-right spectrum all sound nightmarish. (Tbh we’re kinda having that last issue in the UK too, but to a less extreme degree.)

  • kamen@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    It’s amazing how much the US doesn’t want you to go there, even if it’s just to visit.

    Despite all the mediocrity, there are some things to see there, but if that’s the authorities’ attitude (and this here is not the first example of it), yeah, I think I’ll skip.

  • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    So fucking annoying of articles to be like “this was published on Tuesday by the federal register and is open for comments” only to not provide a link.

    • 1984@lemmy.today
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      10 months ago

      Always wanted to see a modern country becoming dystopian though. Could be a big hit on tripadvisor. Once a beacon for freedom in the western world, the US decided it really liked how North Korea is treating its people and decided to do the same using its love affair with big tech psychos like Sam Altman and Elon Musk.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        10 months ago

        “Enjoy the once in century experience of empire collapse from the first row, go sightseeing to ‘once grand but now little more than decrepit and fast fading façades’ and return home with a warm ‘at least it’s not us’ feeling (return trip might be from El Salvador) unlike the poor sods who live in the place”

  • Zomg@piefed.world
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    10 months ago

    So what happens when you truthfully state “I don’t use social media”? Or use any that are mainstream?

    Seems like a dumb time to me.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 months ago

      Depends on the officer you’re dealing with. There’s multiple stories, from before Trump ever took office, of people being detained for up to a day for saying this or refusing to grant access to their phone. I can only imagine it’s worse now.

  • rumba@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    yeah, because tourism is doing so well now, we need more reasons to fuck over the industry

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      10 months ago

      you know its bad when they dont report how tourism is doing in places like florida, texas. its 1-2 punch , anti-immigration policies has probably affected them severely, and the lack of tourism dollars to those welfare states.