• Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Australian here.

    When I was a kid some 30 years ago everyone wanted to go to America. It was seen as this amazing society where you could do anything, be anything, see anything!

    It’s not that way anymore.

    Now it’s seen as a dangerous place, where you have to take measures like in this article to protect yourself.

    Trump really has destroyed your country’s reputation. It’s incredible.

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      19 days ago

      The trump admins have both been a shitshow but realistically they’re just taking the problems this country has always had and is blasting them on full display, and now people are finally starting to realize this country has ALWAYS been a capitalist shithole.

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      20 days ago

      These policies pre-date Trump. But to be fair, the media refused to acknowledge a lot of these problems until Trump was president.

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        19 days ago

        Laws and policies are different. The Trump administration takes much more extremist views towards laws on the books making their internal policies much worse (in most cases).

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          19 days ago

          They’re taking things to the next level of escalation, but they’re using precedent that was set before them in consolidating power for the executive branch, and the destruction of accountability.

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      For your safety, please don’t travel to the US. There is a very real possibility of you being kidnapped and sent to a slave labor camp without due process.

      I am ashamed and afraid of my country.