• It'sbetterwithbutter@lemmus.org
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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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          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. ✊

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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.

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

            But at least gays got to marry ✊

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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.

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            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

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

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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.

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        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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            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.

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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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      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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        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

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        People should boycott it outright.

        The entire event industry is a front for sex trafficking.

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      It already is… Many people from Europe I know, now cancelled their plans.

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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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    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?

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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.

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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?

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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.)

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    hey turns out our tech oligarchs are the ones spying on us and not the chinese, what a twist!

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          the evil ccp use your data to sell you cheaper commodities, the free west use your data to restrict your rights

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            Yeah and both of those are bad. Product dumping kills local businesses, like how the US sending clothes overseas kills domestic textile industries, and processed food aid kills farms needed for self-sufficiency.

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                Yeah, only megacorps and slave labor! Because fuck people owning the means of production, am I right?

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                  Yes, i want highly centralized production owned by the people not highly decentralized production owned by a multitude of petit-bourgeoisie. I want stuff to be abundant for everybody through mass production, not highly constrained by small scale production.

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                  Small shops aren’t the means of production but the profit extraction still operates through robbing wage slaves of the surplus value they create. The petite bougie bosses you’re trying to shill for are some of the most reactionary elements that go straight for fascism because it promises them protections from international capital (which is defined as a conspiratorial cabal unlike domestic capital hence their almost anti-capitalist rhetoric sometimes). They’re also some of the most cruel because they directly cheat employees that they know and interact with personally.

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                Was really waiting for them to reveal how they knew this campaign was Chinese.

                I can believe that it’s something China could do, but I’m not sure why I should believe this article’s assumptions without evidence provided.

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                  I’d be more surprised if countries like the US, China, and Russia weren’t trying to influence each other.

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                  It seemed like the best source available from a ten-second Google search while taking a shit, but I can nip down to the local CIA field office and pick up some classified ops docs if you want a primary source, I’m sure they make that info available.

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                can you please tell me how exactly chinese psyops will destroy the US? 'cause i can’t really see how anything they could would hurt the world.

                would the chinese, perhaps, campaign for communism in the US? how could that possibly be bad?

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    Lol I don’t even remember most of my previous handles. If amnesia isn’t a valid defense I’m never getting into the USA. Then again, I have no reason to visit shithole countries in the first place.

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      Nobody can and that will be use to prove that you lie on the form if they need to find something on you in the future.