Just do something to get the US to revoke your citizenship! Treason of some kind?
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Right-wingers everywhere think of themselves as temporarily embarrassed petty barons.
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I still want my 27 days per year visitation rights. I found out about this as Terry Gilliam did wantwhat I am expecting (is a former American), and needs to plan his business trips to Hollywood carefully.
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the last time I checked you where allowed 90 days out of every 180 , but enforcement was a bit sporadic though I’m sure things have tightened up. I assume that 3 years is the validity of the visa for multiple trips in and out of the shengan countries but still subject to the 90 days out of 180 stipulation, other wise a three year visa would be more like reward for americans. on another note I’m sure americas upper class will be tears over this. it seems to me all it really does is further hinder us common rabble.
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fend yerself eh niece earish lass
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Ah, borders. The world’s most unnecessarily deadly game of “you can’t go there, the floor is lava.”
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It sure was, and kept around by Obama, and now at the disposal of Trump. This is not a right vs left thing but a right vs wrong thing and it helps nobody to play partisan hackery with big issues such as these. The more time each team tries to lay the dead boddies at the feet of the other team the less time and brain power is being spent trying to keep the boddies from being created in the first place.
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Dude. Do you have multiple people using this account or just multiple personalities? You’re the one shouting “socialist” on every thread. If you have an issue with partisanship, maybe you should start close to home.
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They want logins now? Are they required? What if someone doesn’t have any? Ugh now I really don’t want to visit.
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Just look at all the accidental typos in Boing Boing article summaries.
I shouldn’t have said “logins” – they ask for usernames, and IIRC they don’t say it’s optional, though of course you don’t physically have to put anything.
Obviously the US is a big place and not solely defined by its political scene, but travelling there regularly over the last thirty years, I’ve definitely noticed a steady increase in the offputtingness of all that stuff.
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Good thing I already visited my home country 5 years ago. RIP
I know its hard to see subtlety on a bulletin board but if you look closely at my initial reply to Graccus you will notice that it’s point is exacly about what you are replying to. Here is a story about a president making bad desisions and his post is ‘all of team red will be our DOOM!’ so I reply with all of team blue will be our DOOM! By merely shouting at the other team on the internet we acomplish what? We need to say F$@&$ the teams and start thinking about the actual problems and how to fix them. The people leaving supplies for the immigrants crossing the desert chose to do something other than arbitrarily point fingers at the current resident of the top of the minarette and I admire them deeply. The white walkers are marching on the wall and we are over here arguing about who gets to run the whorehouse in kings landing.
I aint an American, but haven’t we seen ICE or other Three Letter Agencies claiming that the 100 mile zone is around every international port, including international airports?
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It hasn’t been formalised yet, but if Il Douche gets another term I’m certain it will be. ICE officers are the regime’s most loyal LEOs, so it’s natural that they’ll want their jurisdiction to cover as much geographic area as possible.
As things stand, though, 2/3s of Americans already live within the existing 100-mile zone, including all of us bad ol’ Coastal Elites.
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Some info on the state of the 100 mile question:
CBP’s official position:
https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/1084/~/legal-authority-for-the-border-patrol
Some opposition:
https://www.roadblockrevelations.org/wp/
More than 5 years of continuous residency in Germany? What about getting a Niederlassungserlaubnis? I was once seconded to a Ausländerbehörde - it’s basically irrevocable and the next best thing to citizenship.
That’s basically where I am now. The only thing missing is voting rights.
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I filled out the ESTA form this morning, and did not supply any social media login. The fields don’t have that asterisk thing indicating they’re required so I skipped them. Hope it won’t be a problem 
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In their dream world, of course, the vast majority of them would end up shoveling the stables despite their own inflated assessments of their cleverness.
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