Move comes after rightwing Republican accuses New York City mayoral candidate of concealing support for ‘terrorism’

The Trump administration has raised the possibility of stripping Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate for New York City, of his US citizenship as part of a crackdown against foreign-born citizens convicted of certain offences.

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, appeared to pave the way for an investigation into Mamdani’s status after Andy Ogles, a rightwing Republican representative for Tennessee, called for his citizenship to be revoked on the grounds that he may have concealed his support for “terrorism” during the naturalization process.

Mamdani, 33, who was born in Uganda to ethnic Indian parents, became a US citizen in 2018 and has attracted widespread media attention – and controversy – over his vocal support for Palestinian rights.

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[–] 133 points 1 year ago (48 children)

Hey USA, you guys ok down there?

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  • [–] 154 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Naw man, we’re pretty fucking far from ok

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    I'm stocking up on ammunition in case I need it for self-defense and using a no-log VPN when criticizing the government.

    So I'm gonna go with "No."

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Started reading this as "stacking up animation" and thought you are going for inner escapism with your anime collection when there'll be problems with interwebs, interpipes and intergunshots on the streets.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    fyi there is no such thing as a no log vpn; be careful out there.

    also look into reloading. it’s not only economical but nerdy fun too.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    fyi there is no such thing as a no log vpn; be careful out there.

    TailsOS has entered the chat

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's an instrument, not a solution. In general I'd advise everyone to think of security thus:

    If someone wants to find your ass, they'll find your ass.

    But if you follow all the best practices, they won't find your ass accidentally or just for fun. They'll have to work.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    In no way, shape, or fucking form nor by any conceivable (or even inconceivable) stretch of even the fucking wildest of imaginations.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    For anyone in France, we might need some help

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Probably shouldn’t have made all those white flag jokes huh?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Grandfather fought in WWII and had nothing but kind words for the people of France. Never could understand the fuckery of those jokes, which is probably for the better.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

    No, we're about as far from OK as a country can get. The world needs to unite against us and muster the largest liberation force ever seen. And I mean the entire world literally every nation that can send warriors, send them. Germans, you have been where we are. You know, all too well, where this road leads. You could not turn yourselves back from it, and so you needed the help of 4 allied world powers. Now, one of those world powers is trudging down that same road you walked almost a century ago. And, I don't think we will be able to turn ourselves back, just as you could not.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    Germans, you have been where we are. You know, all too well, where this road leads.

    Nope. Germans will not help. They have seen where this road leads, and they've decided that they must never do anything military again. They prefer allowing all of the rest of the world to turn 100 % fascist over doing one single small thing that somehow hints towards militarism. Germans allow the road to lead where it leads, as long as that does not happen in Germany.

    Also, for the same reason, in Germany it is extremely impolite calling someone a nazi. As long as they aren't openly showing a swastika or publicly calling for a genocide with that specific word, or lifting their arm in the specific way done by Germans in 1930's and 1940's, they are allowed to do what they do. If you call someone a nazi, you are comparing their acts to what Germany did in 1940's, and it's considered a grave insult towards the victims of those times. It is not acceptable in Germany to say to someone is behaving just like a nazi, and therefore, it is de facto not acceptable calling out a nazi.

    Germany is the last country you can expect to stand up against nazis, precisely because they're so traumatized by their own past. It's also why I expect Germany to eventually fall under a nazi rule again some day. When you cannot talk about a danger, you cannot stop it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Well said. I think the rest of the world has a pretty vested interest in the US not going completely off the rails, even if we don't deserve the help after all the imperialist bullshit.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Yeah, no, clean up your own mess. We have better things to do than rescue you from a mess you got yourselves into.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    Is that what we said to you when it happened to you?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    You mean WW2? I don't know if US propaganda covers this, but Europe was fighting the Nazis for like a year or two before the US entered. As I recall, you guys were staying out of it, with an isolationist stance, until you were attacked by the Japanese.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    But could Germany have ever turned back from fascism on its own, without any help whatsoever? Let's say the entire continent just let the Nazis have their way and let Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss play out their experimental new form of government out to its horrible logical conclusion. Could Germany ever come back from that? Could the world?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The world, yes. Germany, probably not. As the citizens got increasingly fed up with their governments antics, there would have been revolts and protests. These are Germans, not Americans, they hadn't been propagandized into submission beforehand.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I don't know if you know this, but if the US falls, the whole world falls with it. There will be no turning back, no one will be spared. Who knows, maybe evolution will start over with another species, and they'll do the same shit, over and over again until the sun burns out.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago*

    They’re fine with it. Best they can do is a little protest on a weekend if the weather’s nice, if they have the proper permits, and they don’t have to miss work.

    They’re absolutely fucked, and absolutely complicit. Bunch of abject cowards.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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