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I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks

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Post by kcplate »

01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #198
kcplate wrote: post #104

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She had only one really important job to do as vice president—become president if the president was incapable of doing the job. She, like many administration (and media), put her political party’s optics over the good of the country and tried to hide Joe Biden’s mental decline from the population. She was literally derelict in her most important duty as vice president. How could she be trusted as president? I’m an in…

I remember in 2016 I had the luxury to vote third-party. Now my life is on the line, though, so I always vote. It'd be super nifty if you voted too so I don't die before my time

How is your life on the line?

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Post by diggan »

LPisGood wrote: post #406
diggan wrote: post #370

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> SF and many other places offer job opportunities the EU can't, Besides a job that just pays more money, what sort of unique opportunities exists in the US that doesn't exist anywhere in Europe? Genuinely curious, as I can't seem to think of any on my own.

Lots of the best colleges in the world are in USA. That’s not to say some aren’t in the EU, but by numbers USA has Europe thoroughly outclassed.

Judging by the "intellectual purge" that just started, I'm not sure working as a professor at a college (world class or not) is such a great job opportunity. But I'm not close to academia at all, so maybe I'm wrong.

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Post by neves »

yolo666999420 wrote: post #308
swat535 wrote: post #269

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New America? I beg to differ. The United States has always been hostile to outsiders—what’s different now is that they’re not even trying to hide it. As a naturalized Canadian, crossing the U.S. border has always been a frustrating ordeal. Despite holding a valid Canadian passport, I’m routinely subjected to an extra hour of “security” questioning. Maybe I’m just unlucky. Or maybe it’s because I was born in an "undes…

For whatever it's worth, I'm treated this way as a white American. I'm selected for extra screening every single time I reenter the country. Though, I don't think it's ever been longer that 30 minutes or so. I don't know why but some combination of having a beard, being naturally anxious and having traveled to "unusual" countries -- at least by American standards. Crossing the border makes for a guaranteed panic atta…

I'm curious: which were the unusual countries?

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Post by meeshmuesh »

bloopernova wrote: post #313
lenerdenator wrote: post #150

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To be fair, they're okay with what they got so long as they're not the ones getting it . Hamas is a hardline theocratic political party based on a very conservative interpretation of a religion. That means they're anti-free speech/press/religion/assembly, anti-LGBTQ rights, anti-free enterprise, anti-secular jurisprudence, and anti-representative government. Neither of the Palestinian Territories have had meaningful…

People weren't supporting hamas, they were condemning the indiscriminate bombing of civilians. That message was picked up by the russians etc and turned into a wedge issue on social media.

You can’t pretend that every issue that is contentious is some Russian propaganda designed to cause infighting. If you misplace your keys, do you blame Putin as well?

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Post by dragonwriter »

1024core wrote: post #410

> The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. Why is it so hard to write "ICE" ? It is an acronym.

> Why is it so hard to write "ICE" ? It is an acronym.

Setting acronyms in all-caps is a common American stylistic choice, but far from universal in English language writing; initial-cap for acronyms and all-caps for non-acronym initialisms is also a common style, globally, in written English.

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Post by kragen »

greggyb wrote: post #237

Why is this flagged? First of all, it's about an entrepreneur traveling to the US for a startup, which is directly relevant to a significant proportion of YCombinator founders themselves. Beyond its direct relevance to the core founding audience of HN, it is not clickbait or wantonly inflammatory, and is clearly of interest to many based on the comment activity and votes.

Possibly because the comment section will inevitably collapse into a partisan flamewar.

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Post by genewitch »

rayiner wrote: post #190
forinti wrote: post #95

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I'm not a psychologist, but I'm pretty sure all police forces should have very strong and active civilian oversight, because they seem to attract (or maybe even nurture) some very aggressive people. In my country, some police forces have skulls on their uniforms and vehicles. How twisted is that?

But the civilian oversight voted for the guy who promised mass deportations.

Police reform as a platform is career suicide in the US, because the blue lobby is huge. Not as big as AARP or AIPAC but it's up there.

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Post by javcasas »

abeppu wrote: post #201

Her point about private contractors being paid by the number of people detained is an important larger warning. Privatized systems are not magically more efficient; they can just as easily be the driver of the bureaucratic labyrinth.

Perverse incentives. Someone didn't think about it, or maybe they did.

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Post by freehorse »

blindriver wrote: post #317
snapcaster wrote: post #303

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It's not nonsense, people are following all the rules and then having some thug with no ability or willingness to understand the situation revoke their visa. This can and will ruin lives I don't see how you're not seeing the problem here

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It is you that actually has to answer on which rules were broken and which countries do the same. Tbf asking questions to be answered by non-examples is disingenuous. If your argument (2) is that others do it, then you should provide concrete examples similar to the original article. If your argument (1) is that they did not follow some rules, you should either provide specific rules that the author did not follow, or at very least plausible reasons for why they are lying in the article about following all the rules.

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

dragonwriter wrote: post #415
1024core wrote: post #410

> The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. Why is it so hard to write "ICE" ? It is an acronym.

> Why is it so hard to write "ICE" ? It is an acronym. Setting acronyms in all-caps is a common American stylistic choice, but far from universal in English language writing; initial-cap for acronyms and all-caps for non-acronym initialisms is also a common style, globally, in written English.

What's a "non-acronym initialism"?
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