US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas
US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' on new visa applications
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?
As my college RA who suffered from an extreme fear of zombies once told us during one of his multiple zombie preparedness meetings:
Never try lighting zombies on fire, especially if you're in the same building as them. You know what's the only thing worse than a bunch of zombies shambling up the stairs towards you? A bunch of zombies on fire shambling up the stairs towards you.
You underestimate our ability to analyze every problem and solution, and then light both of them on fire.
I mentally added the US to countries with weird draconian authoritarian rules like Russia, China, North Korea, etc.
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.
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.
My goodness, you really drank the koolaid. You sound like a car salesperson. Or is this some form of satire?
edit:
disappointing to see such a display of irrational groupthink in this community, I had hoped for better.
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.
Perhaps the instance was a clue.
And no idea how federation works.
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.
FIVE YEARS? That’s an eternity in internet time. That’s like asking you to remember your 3rd grade nickname.
Fun Fact: USCIS can see even juvenile records for the past 5 years, so if you just became 18, meaning, (example) that fight at school when you were 14 where you defended yourself against the racist xenophobia bully? That's on record. For adult records, they could see every arrest even if it never resulted in a conviction, and could make decisions based on arrests alone. Or of they have "enough evidence" suggesting you are a drug user or drug dealer, they could make you "inadmissible", even if there are zero arrests nor convictions.
For adult records, they can see all sealed records, expunged records, or even pardoned offenses, and make decisions based on that, and you're expected to answer honestly, otherwise if they find out like even decades after the fact, they can just revoke any visa, green card, or even citizenship. And all that was already a thing before this traitor scum got into office.
And people are saying "immigration is too lax", I'm like: Bitch, do you know how hard is it to get in? You probably don't even qualify had you not been born here
As someone who doesn't have any social media, aside from this place, I always wonder what the reaction would be to me.
from my experience dealing with nosy wouldbe-employers and being on an immigrant watchlist:
they don't believe for a second you don't use social media; and if you don't, then you did at some point, and they'll find it; and if they don't find it, then that's suspicious, because obviously everyone uses social media, so you must be a criminal, using some dark web social media. and then you get credit checked forty times, only for them to find you have no debt and thus no credit score, and then they just assume you're not a real person and call the cops.
Lemmy is a leftist platform, the devs literally calls themselves "Marxist-Leninists", so everyone here is guilty by association, they don't care about tankies vs anarchist vs Social Democrat vs Neoliberal, to the far right, you're all Maoists/Stalinists, which means you're kinda fucked lol.
Maybe if you were using reddit, and didn't post anything political, you could pass as an apolitical normie.
They don’t care about tankies vs anarchist vs Social Democrat vs Neoliberal, to the far right, you’re all
Maoists/StalinistsDamn Rotten Commies
FTFY.
Oh fuck.
Oof you're going to have a real "fun" time at the border explaining yours lmao
No it's fine, it's a defense mechanism.
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Oh, it’s little Bobby Tables.
Just to make sure I keep the promise to myself to never visit this country:
"Fuck the US and especially you, Donnie!"
So who's betting with me that this won't be canceled ever, like TSA screenings, even if the US would find their way back to a democracy (after some very intense protests / a civil war 2.0 probably)?
Does this include my Lemmy profile?
Especially your Lemmy profile. When you have to explain "federated" to USBP, you know they're 5 minutes from welcoming you to the US with open arms.
You meant ready and loaded arms, right?
Doing people a favor by discouraging them from coming here.
All those years of sarcasm, shitposts, jokes, photos of your pets, and memes will be the reason you won't gain entry into Nazi USA. 🤭
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And finally TACOSUXDIKS
A speaker labeled "Palantir" crackles to life. "Wrong answer. Would you like to try again?"
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Qatar doesn't sound as bad anymore
2018 Russia, 2022 Qatar, 2026 US(Canda/Mexico), … 2034 Saudi Arabia
It’s not looking good Fifa.
I am no one, but I lost all respect for players after Qatar. They and their fans will walk on dead bodies to any popular event. FIFA just has to lay on the red carpet over the bodies.