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Which is the proof that you were knowingly presenting a distortion of the truth earlier when you said if you overstay you have to leave. Again - having to leave is not the same as not being allowed to leave. You get that, don't you? Of course it isn't. Again - she was not in the US to work when she was arrested. She was in the US to get a work visa. Canadians are allowed to be in the US without a work visa, and you do not need to have a work visa in order to apply for a work visa. Canadians don't need a work visa to enter the US.

However it may seem to you, they're literally not so you legally can't. But I can see why just ignoring the details and simply pretending black is white instead is appealing to you, you've never been good with complex concepts.

And yet Elon, like Trump, believes the one single group of people on this earth who should be allowed to exploit it are white South Africans. Funny that.

You don't need to have a work visa to apply for a work visa, right?

That's where you're just not getting it, brother. People who want to leave are not being allowed to leave. Here's a woman who was imprisoned while at the airport looking for a flight home who wasn;t even in the US illegally, she'd just had a request for a work visa turned down. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney

Nah, I'm happy enough just demonstrating that you're talking bollocks. You link to pointless videos of other people doing your talking for you all the time, yet you won't do anything to show CBS saying what you claim they did. Why you won't is not the world's biggest mystery.

Elon Musk offers to pay $100 to Wisconsin voters who sign a petition against ‘activist judges’ Every single time the Republicans accuse the Dems of doing something dirty it's because they're actually doing it themselves. It's a principle that never ever fails.

So you have no idea what CBS said about German free speech, then?

Standing against someone who literally tried to overthrow your democracy and is now actively trying to break as many constitutional limits on executive power as possible doesn't need much looking. I guess the reason you don't see it is that you just need someone to serve.

Did you? What did it say, specifically?

That's a great point, just like intervening to stop a street mugging is the same thing as helping a mugger.

This is what I find surprising about the American right, that they are surprised by something that was spelled out in glowing neon letters during the campaign. Trump during the campaign: Says repeatedly he will do something outrageous when in power. Republicans: You libs should stop being so hyperbolic, you’re not supposed to take him literally! Trump in office: Does exact outrageous thing he said he would do. Republicans: If only someone could have warned us this was going to happen!

Which is why I’m pretty sure they didn’t say that. The Republicans did. And it’s obviously not true. JD Vance is a soulless hypocrite. The European country that has done far, far more than any other to crack down on free speech is Hungary. So does JD hold up Orban as a symbol of all that is wrong with European freedom of expression? No, he fucking loves him and wishes he could implement the same style of proto-dictatorship in the USA. Chauvin murdered Floyd. Thats a gimme, since you already know it’s true.

I wish it wasn’t true, but here we are. You’d rather be someone who helps the police murder a guy than be someone who helps expose a crime committed by the police. You’ve been explicitly clear about that. You said you’d help hold Floyd down so that ‘Chauvin could let go’. Two other cops were already helping hold him down and Chauvin didn’t let go, so that’s you lying, isn’t it? Chauvin didn’t let go when Floyd was unconscious, he didn’t let go when Floy was dead. Since you know this is true, the idea that he would have let go of you were there because he’d have recognised your uniquely awesome holdy downy power is a deliberate lie, isn’t it? Why have you chosen to lie about this when you know how awful it makes you look?

No, the Republicans would have you believe that, but it’s not true.

It's been apparent for a while that the new right have no principles, none whatsoever, regarding the proper functioning of government that they won't throw aside in the pursuit of more power to force through their agenda. I saw one comment from either a VOA or USIP employee saying the Doge staffers and Trump apparatchiks who came in were so radical, so partisan and so bent on forcing through their agenda that they can't even comprehend that other people can go and do their jobs with integrity without trying to advantage their 'side' at every step. They just assume the entire system is as corrupt as they are.

Trump: The President just has to think something and it becomes law! Also Trump: He used the wrong kind of pen it doesn't count.

Me neither - I'm pretty sure it's the overt racism that forms the main attraction.

The point that he's a willing follower of a malevolent leader just because he had some bullshit about DEI and the debt thrown at him? I dunno, that woud be a level of self awareness he's never come close to demonstrating before. What makes you think he's changed?

Yeah, just throw some bullshit about DEI and the debt at them and it’s amazing who’ll buy into it.

They also just expelled the South African ambassador (someone who was childhood home was stolen by an unelected racist government) for pointing out the racism of the Maga movement.

Yes, it must be so tiring when true things you did are accurately reported in the press. I can see why that would cause any normal person to go utterly batshit mental.

'DEI is worse than being a KKK Grand Wizard'. Pure, racist hate. I mean Jesus dude, it's not as if you don't know why you said it. It cannot possibly be a surprise that people take offense at your deliberately offensive statements.

There's a political satirist here that has a theory - the turning point for Musk was the Thailand cave kids saga. Musk has always been unbelievably thin skinned and hates when it is publicly pointed out that he's not the smartest man in the room. Musk said on Twitter (while knowing less than zero about the situation) that he was going to task his engineers with making a submarine to rescue the kids. A Brit who was involved in the rescue politely pointed out that this couldn't possibly work since the cave was so narrow that divers had to take their air tanks off to get through the worst restrictions. So Musk said the guy must be a pedophile because he moved to Thailand. After suffering a tidal wave of online abuse the Brit sued Musk for libel, an absolute slam dunk you would think... and Musk won the case. At that moment he realised he really was rich and powerful enough that he could do and say whatever the fuck he wanted, regardless of any law, and get away with it. That's the theory, anyway.

In doing so, district administrators appear to have inadvertently drummed up division and controversy of their own. Lol at ‘inadvertently’. Anyway, this is all part of the far right shell game. You can’t ask kids not to be racist because that’s pushing an ideology. When the kids grow up and go to college the university can’t make any effort to better think about how to admit a fair proportion of qualified black kids because that’s race based. They can give preferential admission to an unlimited number of alumni kids - who surprise surprise are almost all white - because that’s just fine and is perfectly acceptable in the ‘meritocracy’. Then when those college graduates apply for jobs you can’t give any consideration to whether there are likely to be equally talented minorities graduating from less prestigious colleges, and you can’t do anything to try and stop the racists who were never taught not to be racist from bringing their prejudices into the interview room - because if you did that would literally be worse than burning black people to death. Its all the circle of white supremacist life.