@velartrill > i think there's a difference between "family reunification" visas (i didn't need a visa in the first place, the one remaining upside to being a euroid lol) and applying for residency once you're already in the country. my understanding is that the majority of immigrants get in on some kind of visa, usually FR, and then use either "refugee" residency status or administrative trickery (like the "tolerated presence" scheme -- "you can't legally be here but we also can't legally deport you because it totally sucks where you came from rn so whatever i guess please just stay out of the news") or just ignore the law entirely in order to stay, and as long as they don't do anything particularly heinous they don't have to worry too much about being deported because it's not politically correct.

this sounds exactly like the fine-print i'm not very educated about :)

> but as soon as i become some kind of registered koronakriminal that goes out the window, because it's hard to imagine anyone more politically correct to deport than some white american querdenker(in?)

as ugly as it is, you are probably right. some bureaucrat would probably get an extra rainbow smily sticker for that ;) (yes the -in ending denotes a female querdenker)

> iirc the main thing that's changing with citizenship is the new management has been promising to legalize dual citizenship for everyone (instead of it being the standard kind of racial privilege), which would have meant something to me a few years ago but now i'm not sure i even want to keep my american citizenship (and that's assuming i don't wind up randomly stateless at some point in the next three years anyway, which is just seeming increasingly likely…)

i'd say it can never hurt to have one extra citizenship. i have a slight hope that the tide will turn in the states (it will turn faster than in europe imho). besides, as ugly as things are there, at least you can have guns without jumping through hoops in the US ;)

> i just hope they manage to kill the heart damage injection mandate so i can stop worrying so much. can't believe i'm rooting for the greens & the fdp but here we are

that would of course be the easiest way. i don't think that a mandate will hold at the constitutional court. the strategy clearly is to just make the law and force the hand of people, regardless if it will be declared unconstitutional afterwards. even the legality of the measles-vaccination-mandate for children isn't decided upon finally. it's still used to force the vaccination though.

@bonifartius > i have a slight hope that the tide will turn in the states (it will turn faster than in europe imho).

i no longer believe there is any chance of this whatsoever, i just don't see a mechanism by which it could happen even in theory. americans as a group are no longer defined by anything but the territory they very unhappily share with each other and a boatload of common psychopathologies. there's nothing to build on, no sense of common purpose, no solidarity, no compassion, no vision for anything better than what they've got, and increasingly no hope. life and work have been replaces by survival and hustle.

i'm not sure if it's really possible to understand how broken america is if you haven't grown up there yourself, but i did and i always struggle to even try to describe it without falling back on religious rhetoric. at this point it's just a "country" of deeply disturbed schizophrenic sociopaths who've been tormented by ten thousand devils their entire lives and whose primary emotions are fear, hatred, and uncontrollable lust (for both sexual gratification and Product, insofar as they can still perceive the difference). i don't think anything good can come out of there, leastways not until the fire has burned out and the fuel is all used up. that will certainly take at least a century, probably much longer.

and even if they could recover economically and socially, the country's infrastructure is all built so that it basically cannot function without vast amounts of oil. if the consoom juice stops flowing, mass graves will result within weeks. rebuilding it all to prevent this would easily have a pricetag in the trillions and would be politically impossible at least until the death toll reaches the millions, probably even then

america is just so fractally fucked, i seriously could write pages and pages of this and still feel like i hadn't even scratched the surface. even afghanistan has a brighter future at this point.

> as ugly as things are there, at least you can have guns without jumping through hoops in the US

very true, but the thing about germany is, so far, i don't *need* to own firearms to be able to survive 🙃

> i don't think that a mandate will hold at the constitutional court

fingers crossed. then again, didn't they pass that Enabling Act 2.0 Infektionsschutzgesetz that basically said "fuck the constitution we do what we want, bc korona" and that was allowed to stand?

@velartrill @bonifartius scotus killed the latest attempt at the mandate (the one trying to backdoor OSHA) but they didn't kill the drivers of the motion so expect it to come back in some way or another.

most of this has been good ole traditional eco-fascism though (outsourcing policy to "private" institutions, when it's very plainly a government policy being positioned in a way to make it not be adjudicatable.)