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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago

But sir, the form only has space for four!

[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My US visa officer: what do you mean you did not have 'social' media accounts in 5 years? No, these weird sites don't count. Underground terrorist? Straight to gulag.

[–] ter_maxima@jlai.lu 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)

"I don't use social media"

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Seriously, what’s the advantage of having social media? Just seems like a liability with every account.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If you don’t have social media you must be “hiding” something and will be denied entry.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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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[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Oh well, I wouldn't have been welcome anyway, seeing I've had the audacity to be critical of Israeli ~~genocide~~ defense, TACO and Daddy Put-it-in.

Guess I'll go spend my tourist money elsewhere.

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[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago

Good luck. NYS couldn't even keep track of this requirement just for CCW permits.

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

I'm betting on the opposite problem,

We show here you've been VERY active. Please have a seat in this chair until we come for you.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can find my short form username: Anon.

What could they find?

Yes, what possible community full of people named "Anon" could they find that would get you in any amount of trouble?

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[–] Zenith@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is why I’ve already deleted basically everything, social media is a cancer that pushes us further and further apart and replaces meaningful interactions with vapid and shallow counterfeit interactions, it’s a net loss for anyone using it at this point.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, you post here :P

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"Have you ever attempted to overthrow a government by force or violence?"

Non-Citizen MAGAt: sweats profusely

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

"Why? Is the CIA hiring?"

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, we were actually liberating it from oppression.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't think that matters.

It doesn't matter if you are trying to overthrow, say a US Adversary like Russia or China, its still counts. I guess the logic is: If you are willing to use violence in [Insert Country Here], how do we know you wont try it here?

A lot of the initial supporters of a revolution/coup gets purged so they don't become a threat to the new authority themselves. Like hitler and the S.A. for example.

MAGAt supporters are just useful idiots, if they successfully fully take over, those same supporters now become the new threat that needs to be purged.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

if they successfully fully take over, those same supporters now become the new threat

Quite a few of the current crop of deputized ICE agents are MAGA goons from four years ago. So long as you're actively doing the gruesome work of ethnic cleansing, you'll be given a pass.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Who TF wants to set foot in that shithole banana republic anyway?
Stuff your visa, and return the favor and stay TF out of other people's countries.
That would be a welcome change.

[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago
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