I'm an American citizen and I got out. Absolutely zero regrets. Apparently it's rapidly becoming increasingly common

No-one is safe.

Not until we make the police and ICE agents feel unsafe.

Not even Elon Musk himself apparently.

We can take a few american refugees, but we should limit it to the same measly numbers that the US has been accepting. That would be 50 000 per year.

Over a few millenia we could probably provide refuge for the vulnerable populations in the USA.

It's hard for people to believe this kind of crazy though.

Do we know it was a pure tourist visit and they could choose the location? Many state departments are already flagging the US with a state instability warning if not no-go, so I'd assume she (or the husband) was here on business, or because there were circumstances that pushed them.

To be fair, NYC is pretty blue, it's just the NYPD that has been for decades a threat to the people, especially nonwhites, with Bloomberg's mayorship taking much of the blame.

ICE is not law enforcement

DARVO

Because other than obvious hate-speech, leftists are the ones who actually practice freedom of speech while the right screams and yells and bans books.

You can get banned here for similar reasons as you'd get banned from things on Reddit. In theory the federated setup helps to mitigate it somewhat, in that if you get banned from your primary instance you can hop over to one that's a bit more agreeable to your perspective and continue on.

For example, I was recently banned from LGBTQ+ on, I think the world server, cause I posted a fairly benign straight opinion to a post that had an image basically asking for cis commentary. It had like 5-7 upvotes, about 13-15 down votes at the time the mods kicked me out -- so even amongst the community it was a bit wishy washy, but the mods still opted to take action. On Reddit, that might've gotten me flagged / banned site-wide, depending on which White House narrative the company is marching to on that day. Here I just lose access to the LGBTQ+ community, shrug at them echo chambering up, and continue about my day.

In terms of "Why do we only control the speech of leftists", I imagine it's because the threads you continue to access are left leaning -- meaning those left in your bubbles, are the left-leaning sorts saying they'd been banned. Right leaning comments, and even (in my view) some centrist / neutral comments, still get people banned. These days we all basically have to assume that there are companies / algorithms creating bubbles in online spaces; you need to temper it with a good bit of secondary sources outside of 'social media' to get a more accurate picture of people's mindsets/trends. Eg. Social Media + direct views of national/local news paper sites + in person discussion with various sorts.

I'm not going to blame the voters for the Democrats' decision to throw the election, personally. They knew Harris was unpopular with groups they needed to win swing states. They knew Biden was unpopular too. It was their decision to crown two weak candidates without a primary and state publicly and unequivocally that they wouldn't change anything.

You can't look at your own record as president, knowing full well your actions and willful inaction have made people significantly poorer, and reasonably conclude that the status quo is an acceptable campaign strategy.

I wouldn't be surprised if a meme causes Trump to send troops somewhere, only for it to turn out to be a trap.