America wants five years of your social media before you visit. I followed it to Five Eyes, a 1946 alliance kept secret for 64 years.

Five years of your social media just to visit the US on an ESTA, and 50,922 phone searches at the border in a single year with no suspicion needed. Part 1 of my Five Eyes series: who else gets to see it?

  • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
    236·
    3 days ago

    No, its definitely either Myanmar or Congo.

    Edit: Anybody downvoting this: You can’t actually believe this. You almost certainly know people who have or are going to the US, none who are going to active warzones.

    • Zerush@lemmy.ml
      166·
      3 days ago

      Are you sure? I’m not so, Myanmar and Congo are scary and dangerous for their citizens, USA is scary and dangerous for their citizens AND the rest of the World.

      • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
        73·
        3 days ago

        Yes, entire villages are not being indiscriminately murdered by the government inside the US while all factions capable of overthrowing it fight eachother, nor are they experiencing an ebola outbreak while hospital workers go months without pay.

        I meet lots of people go to the US, none who go to Myanmar, even though that’s way closer.

        • Zerush@lemmy.ml
          41·
          3 days ago

          I know a lot of people leaving the US, and murdering villages in the US…only currently not, at least now with citizens they do, but also in the rest of the world since more than half a century until today

    • TheArchitectAutopsy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      21·
      3 days ago

      Definitely not going to downvite it. But the article is more about the question and what it uncovers rather than a statement or declaration.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      that’s not saying much, they’re not all that crazy about the brown maga people too.

  • latetolemmy@lemmy.world
    32·
    2 days ago

    OP hasn’t seen vids of guys getting flayed alive by mexican cartel. Lmao scariest. White boy living in suburbs thinks some cameras are scary.

    • Slashme@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 days ago

      You don’t get flayed by cartels for visiting Mexico. I’ve visited Mexico for work more than once. It was fine. I didn’t need a police escort like I did in actually dangerous countries, and I never felt unsafe.