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      12 hours ago

      Obviously they’ll just search for the username in their “metadata only” database to check if you were lying. It’s just like taxes: they know about everything already, they just want to check if you’re honest or can add another datapoint to hang you with.

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    18 hours ago

    What happens if you don’t have social media?

    Or like you just change your public name when you travel?

    Or like say you don’t? I have this feeling these people don’t actually give two shits to go find out if you lied about that or not

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      17 hours ago

      I imagine they’ll just deny visas to all those cases. Unfortunately they’re under no obligation to provide visas to people who don’t use social media.

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        Having a strict policy of never setting foot on US soil does wonders for not having to worry about Trump’s latest brain fart.

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            12 hours ago

            They haven’t come for us in Canada yet, and in fact are in the “finding out” phase of the lesson in why they shouldn’t.

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                7 hours ago

                We also have people effectively indistinguishable from them which would make us invisible in the war of resistance, allowing operations deep behind enemy lines.

                Keep in mind the USA couldn’t win a war with people who looked very different from them. Oh, wait. That doesn’t narrow it down very much at all. I mean I could be talking about Vietnam here. Or Somalia. Or Pakistan. Or Afghanistan. Or …

                Whichever I meant, though, the USA has consistently shown its inability to hold territory even when “us vs. them” was pretty clear to establish. What chance do you think they’ll have when faced with people who look and talk just like them?

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    20 hours ago

    It’s for F, M, and J visas, not tourists. F visas are for academic students, M is for vocational/non-academic study, and J is for work/study programs. None of them are for immigration.

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      9 hours ago

      Still a ridiculous requirement. They weren’t requiring a list of everyone you talked to in the last 12 months, copies of letters/emails, and your diary 30 years ago.

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      19 hours ago

      As a tourist applying for USA visa waiver they wanted social media username/links. But they only had slots for Facebook, twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Apparently fediverse hasn’t hit their radar.