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New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles

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King-Aaron ◴[19 Jun 25 01:16 UTC] No.44314612[source]▶
I'm impressed at both how quickly the United States is falling into blatant authoritarianism, and also at how many people seem to make excuses for it.
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amazingamazing ◴[19 Jun 25 02:09 UTC] No.44314832[source]▶
This country enslaved blacks for hundreds of years, slaughtered the natives and put the Japanese into camps and nuked them twice.

It’s always been authoritarian for those that don’t look right

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intended ◴[19 Jun 25 06:01 UTC] No.44315883[source]▶
This is too easy a criticism and the unhelpful form of cynicism.

America also made efforts to recognize that those events counted as screwups and failures of their own value systems, and struggled against the forces that allowed such situations to happen.

This isn’t to say they succeeded, or that these situations wouldn’t happen again.

Its to say that theres a difference between pushing against the current, and flowing with it.

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1. amazingamazing ◴[19 Jun 25 11:38 UTC] No.44317672[source]▶
What exactly did America do undo these? Jim Crow for blacks and segregation? Redlining? Mass deportations (they started before Trump)? Patriot act (which still exists in partial form today)?