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US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas
(www.thejournal.ie)
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2025
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Yeah, if you ever wonder how we got to this situation, the number of people who seriously prepare for zombie apocalypse and studying zombie movies for tips is non-zero. It's a depressingly non-zero number.
Higher than the number who prep for fascism or probable local disasters!
Oof.
But one thing my sister's partner said that stuck with me during the ramp-up to the pandemic about people refusing to take things seriously:
I think liberals (and fascists, in pretty much the same way) are so alienated from reality that stories abd feels are the only thing they can engage with ever.
Unfortunate that they can't engage critically.