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The tech bro hive mind on HN is furiously flagging (i.e., voting into invisibility) any submissions dealing with Tesla, Elon Musk or the kafkaesque US immigration detention situation. Add “/active” to the URL to see.

The site’s moderator says it’s fine because users are “tired of the repetition”. Repetition of what exactly? Attempts to get through the censorship wall?

  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    OK hate reading this thread now:

    spoiler

    I wouldn’t describe them [Border Patrol] as nationalistic or fascist. There’s no need to bring in any sort of political view…

    Heck this guy for downplaying fascism

    This is how American immigration has always worked.

    Heck this guy for downplaying the recent totally obvious escalations

    Immigration enforcement isn’t pretty anywhere, but also happens everywhere. For instance literally every single story of somebody being detained/deported from anywhere for working without a work permit is going to be a sad story

    Heck this guy for normalizing what’s going on

    You mean those few hundred gang bangers that were brutal enough that even their home countries wouldn’t accept them back?

    Heck this guy for trusting, unconditionally, the feds when they claim people without criminal backgrounds (but omg tattoos) are hardened violent criminals.

    So the Canadien was deported for illegally being in the USA, got caught and deported, and then got caught again for illegally entering the USA again?

    Heck this guy for being generally oblivious to that horror story that was all over the news

    On the other is the story, which may or may not be clickbait intended as outrage-engagement.

    Heck this guy for being willfully obtuse

    It says clearly in the article that she violated the terms of her visa according to ICE. Her parents never mention what the violation was. The idea she was deported for doing some chores around the house is laughable.

    Heck this guy for not choosing kindness

    Well, the unfortunate tourist lady was taken into custody for a suspicion to attempt to work illegally as a house help. Not sure why her family panic so much, as they live in UK, when you can go in chains for posting something on twitter or liking “inappropriate” content

    Heck this guy for not choosing kindness

    • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
      19·
      3 days ago
      omfg

      I wouldn’t describe them [Border Patrol] as nationalistic

      What exactly is the role of border patrol if not to literally enforce nationalism

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      The incuriosity, not just in how things are, but also in how things could be changed, and even if things are really necessary.

      Just ‘regels zijn regels’ shit. (Sorry living in .nl is great, it just has a few big flaws. Like people shouting ‘regels zijn regels’, who never apply those rules to themselves as well (it also amuses me a bit that this will look a bit like german so it looks like I’m doing a Godwin to people just glancing over my post)).

      • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
        7·
        3 days ago

        I suppose it’d be Regeln sind Regeln in German, though I don’t know if that’s an actual saying there or not.

        I just started learning German recently* and so far it’s a lovely language. I’ve already noticed how similar Dutch is just from browsing Wiktionary. Wiktionary is great because it has a declension / conjugation chart for every word I’ve tried – a lot of dictionaries kind of assume you already know the grammar basics.

        * As part of some in-progress US exit plans I’m not ready to talk about just yet because they might still fall through

        • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
          5·
          3 days ago

          Wonder if it would be more ‘die regeln sind die regeln’, but my German is quite poor. I can understand it a little bit, but can’t really speak it.