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.

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.

Qatar doesn’t sound as bad anymore

Oh, it’s little Bobby Tables.

I mentally added the US to countries with weird draconian authoritarian rules like Russia, China, North Korea, etc.

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.

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.

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

“Shitass”

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.

A speaker labeled “Palantir” crackles to life. “Wrong answer. Would you like to try again?”