• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    Fellow Americans,

    You know when the news blows up because one of our citizens has been taken hostage as a political prisoner in some authoritarian country? And you know how that makes you not want to visit or do business with that country?

    We’re now that authoritarian country.

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    she went backpacking and did housekeeping at her stays in exchange of free housing, then she got detained for seeking employment on tourist visa, jailed for weeks for stealing our backpackers’ jobs

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      Becky, a women with Zooey Deschanel hair and a golden retriever named Bo Jangles.

      She’s a classic Tren de Aragua mule. I bet she also listens to Sylvan Esso and pickles onions grown in a community garden.

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        23 hours ago

        She probably even has a butterfly tattoo on her ankle. Tren de Aragua confirmed, no need to investigate further

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      The infection has been festering and swollen for decades, we just kept rubbing dirt and covering it up, letting it get worse.

      Now it’s quite a bit harder to cover up and ignore.