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US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas
(www.thejournal.ie)
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2025
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Every time I hear the news from the USA I think: it's not like things were peachy before Trump 2.0 or even 1.0. How much worse can it get?
I mentally added the US to countries with weird draconian authoritarian rules like Russia, China, North Korea, etc.
Many countries are putting out tourism warnings for people wanting to travel there. Invasive practices on entry, chance of being detained if you're any number of minorities, generally more dangerous, and an increased risk of catching an infectious disease.
Yes, and fortunately, a lot of people seem to be paying attention. Our government thinks we don't need the rest of the world? Let us rot in isolation.
As my college RA who suffered from an extreme fear of zombies once told us during one of his multiple zombie preparedness meetings:
You underestimate our ability to analyze every problem and solution, and then light both of them on fire.
They would not have liked the Humans vs Zombies events.
Um what?
Yeah, if you ever wonder how we got to this situation, the number of people who seriously prepare for zombie apocalypse and studying zombie movies for tips is non-zero. It's a depressingly non-zero number.
Higher than the number who prep for fascism or probable local disasters!
Oof.
But one thing my sister's partner said that stuck with me during the ramp-up to the pandemic about people refusing to take things seriously:
I think liberals (and fascists, in pretty much the same way) are so alienated from reality that stories abd feels are the only thing they can engage with ever.
Unfortunate that they can't engage critically.
Except if destruction of the brain kills zombies, their heads would explode from the heat, probably within 5-10 minutes.
He was forgetting the most important step: you have to nail their feet to the floor before you light them up.
Despite everything, this remains a state created by Enlightenment liberals, extremely decentralized, with a powerful independent judiciary and literally the strongest speech protections in the world.
Obviously the direction of travel is wrong, but let's keep some perspective.
PS: disappointing to see such a display of irrational groupthink in this community, I had hoped for better. Perhaps the instance was a clue.
The first president stole his shiny new teeth from the mouths of living humans that he kept as property.
So lets take this with an entire dead sea worth of salt.
At this rate there'll be more people who love America outside it than inside it!
No i mean the meal i can enjoy now that i have shiny new teeth i got from somewhere. Needs more salt.
My goodness, you really drank the koolaid. You sound like a car salesperson. Or is this some form of satire?
edit:
Oh yes, taking refuge in the narrative of "morally superior underdog". FWIW, everything you said could also be defined as "irrational groupthink". Honestly, even more so.
And no idea how federation works.
Hyperbole aside, what's incorrect?
PS: yeah yeah, downvotes just prove you can't answer. Next.
Have you read the news recently?
Have you seen the current administration, or half the politicians?
Like getting deported or denied at the border because you criticized the dear leader online?
Their (the user you replied to) sarcasm so deep they forgot the put the /s 😂