I think I need to call ICE and turn myself in. I’m from somewhere like Barbados, New Zealand, Uruguay or Italy…I’ve been living in the US for sooooo long that my English is practically perfect. Please deport me. My home country misses my economic contributions.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      29 days ago

      Uruguay it is then! Please threaten to send me to a country that has 98% renewable energy and a haven for all things open source. I just might be able to survive with my limited knowledge of Esperanto!

  • oleorun
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    12010 days ago

    YOU WON’T BELIEVE THIS FREE TRAVEL HACK coming to TikTok soon

      • @krashmo
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        1110 days ago

        In contrast with what?

        • Skua
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          In British English it sounds the same as “boy”

          • @krashmo
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            310 days ago

            Hmm, interesting. I don’t think I’ve heard that before.

            • @[email protected]
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              It’s literally how you (as in Americans) pronounce it when you say buoyant or buoyancy, but for some reason you go wild when pronouncing buoy.

              • @krashmo
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                If I had to guess it’s due to the fact that a word pronounced like boy already exists. Never really thought about it before though.

                • Skua
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                  I’m not sure if it was the pronunciation in all of the UK or just in parts of it, but historically there was also a “bwoy” pronunciation. I could imagine the American “boo-ee” descending from that

            • @thebigslime
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              210 days ago

              It’s regional in the US. Boo-ee is a western states thing.

              • @idiomaddict
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                910 days ago

                I have never heard a pronunciation other than “boo-ee” and I’m from Connecticut

              • lime!
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                510 days ago

                i’ve heard it from pennsylvanians

        • @Jerb322
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          Not sure. BooAy, maybe…

    • @Warl0k3
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      It seems like a real waste to put all those vowels in words just to ignore them.

    • @Shardikprime
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  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    Part of the dystopian horror is learning they don’t care where you came from, and often will deposit you right into the hands of human traffickers.

    And they’ll lock foreign-looking American citizens in a room with no contact and no lawyer and say You have forty-eight hours to prove your citizenship. Good luck. Followed by deportation as above. So no, your birth certificate in a hospital in San Diego will not help you.

    And between those places are the detention centers that are packed at over double maximum safe occupancy, which get super dirty and super infected, and the ICE troopers / PSCs would beat the crap out of people for fun.

    Some of the scary bits of the German Reich concentration camp program are already happening here in the US.

  • @Professorozone
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    Yeah, I was kind of wondering if there was a list of countries from which I could choose to be deported to. I mean my parents were American and I was born in America but that doesn’t matter anymore, right. It would be great to be deported to someplace nice. I quite liked New Zealand when I visited. Do they take requests?

  • @BigDiction
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    I see well without any documentation we’ll have to run a DNA analysis to try and determination your nation of birth.

    Results are back. 23 and Me reports Yemen with 82% confidence. Wheels up in 10.

    • @Fredselfish
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      Great deport my ass to France, got to better rhere then here.

      • @Maggoty
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        Your discount version of 23 and Me came back as Algeria?

  • @ZILtoid1991
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    > go to the US as a traveler from eastern europe
    > get caught by ice
    > claim you're a french canadian, your accent is actually just an even weirder french
    > get deported
    > free asylum in canada
    
  • @[email protected]
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    I don’t get the post. I don’t think there are illegal immigrants from Italy or new Zealand in the USA.