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US revokes all visas for South Sudanese over country’s failure to repatriate citizens
(www.theguardian.com)
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~~if you're escaping genocide maybe don't go to the country that inspired Nazi Germany and is currently role playing as them.~~
edit: yeah this does sound a lot like victim blaming, that wasn't my intention.
Just few months ago it was still safe.
relatively speaking I guess.
Up until a short time ago the US was a pretty safe place for refugees. Or at least a good balance of sort-of acceptance times sort-of economic opportunity times sort-of safety. Whatever. Sort of. For whatever reason they looked around and decided we were the place to try. We didn’t invent being harsh and uncaring to vulnerable people, we don’t have a monopoly on it, and it won’t go away when we collapse.
Put another way, don’t blame them. They just want to live.
This is the soft power Trump is pissing away. People still believe in the promise of America, but that's not going to survive his term(s)
Yeah.
The weird thing is, the promise of America at least in modern times always included hatred and mistrust of the American system.
Donald Duck was the mascot of WW2 for all these basically-kids who were going off the fight it because he was a huge suspicious pain in the ass. It wasn’t Mickey. People couldn’t identify with him.
Rambo, “Born in the USA,” Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut. Woodward and Bernstein. Hippies and Neal Cassady. Everyone who’s a big icon of American culture thinks the American system is a bunch of dangerous shit.
I think the underlying promise is alive and well. The BLM protests were worldwide. The Trump protests haven’t really got going yet on the pillar-shaking scale that they need to, but they’re developing international echoes. Universities outside the country want to hire all these fired scientists.
Tim Snyder said that when he was in Kyiv, he was talking with someone and the first thing she did was touch his arm and tell him she was so sorry about the United States.
The reason the US matters at all, is more than just a big random place with a lot of racism and income inequality, is because it captured a little flicker of lightning, and the whole system of governance had that light within it. Somewhat. The lightning is the important piece. It can go somewhere else, and the vessel can fall away. The vessel is not the important piece.