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Five years of your social media just to visit the US on an ESTA, and 50,922 phone searches at the border in a single year with no suspicion needed. Part 1 of my Five Eyes series: who else gets to see it?

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

Are you sure? I'm not so, Myanmar and Congo are scary and dangerous for their citizens, USA is scary and dangerous for their citizens AND the rest of the World.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 hours ago

wot ? 10s of thousands went to the world cup and while numbers are down, 10s of thousands alas visit the US every year.

I've been to Myanmar before current civil war, amazibg place, but the Tatmadaw are literally bombing towns with aircraft

go read some of the news in !myanmar@lemmy.ca

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

Yes, entire villages are not being indiscriminately murdered by the government inside the US while all factions capable of overthrowing it fight eachother, nor are they experiencing an ebola outbreak while hospital workers go months without pay.

I meet lots of people go to the US, none who go to Myanmar, even though that's way closer.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Yeah because they do it overseas

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

I know a lot of people leaving the US, and murdering villages in the US...only currently not, at least now with citizens they do, but also in the rest of the world since more than half a century until today

[–] feral_sh@lemmy.today -3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You won’t see anyone admit it on this site, but the 2A keeps villages safe in the USA.

And yes, country folks can defeat the US army. It happened in Vietnam and the Middle East, it can happen at home.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 hours ago

Vietnam had a regular army including fighter jets and held half the country.

Iraq pt II had support from foreign powers and military hardware.

The 2A folks in America are itching to be brown shirts, they're the ones who will be massecring villages.