• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    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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    13 days ago

    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

    • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      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.

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        13 days ago

        Cool, regardless of what terms she might have broken. She is still a human, they can treat her like one.