Erasmus Magazine, the official rag of Erasmus University Rotterdam, has reported on a month-old policy of the university, which advises students and faculty to avoid traveling to the US if they can help it.
Probably the most toxic country in the world to travel to, with perhaps the exception of Israel, the US has now taken to gestapo tactics of turning away people at the border with valid visas, deporting naturalized citizens (with a promise to deport ‘home-grown’ citizens next — how do you even do that? Make people into stateless people?). The absurdities abound as the clown government attempts to cow the rest of the world into accepting their myopic, atrophied view of reality. Yet, thankfully, most people in the world, including in the US, are well aware that just because you call something by a name, and have big sticks, doesn’t mean you can build shit. It just makes clear that you know how to break things.
The silliness that the US has degraded into a cloak and dagger state, a place where people have to pledge allegiance to a tyrant and tyranny, where democratic freedoms of speech are illegal and bullying is the national sport, shows that there is little future in this regime.
My own university warns staff and students that they have to assume alternative identities to be able to go to this enemy country:
“The university also warns of checks on electronic devices. Staff can borrow empty laptops and phones to ensure that confidential information does not fall into the hands of border control agents.
Finally, the university advises the careful handling of the ESTA or visa application. ‘You risk arrest and imprisonment, and you could be deported’ if the applications are not filled out correctly.”
Imprisonment for filling out a form improperly — even by accident! This reminds me of David Graeber’s tyranny of paperwork and red tape, in his book The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy. The orgy of violence being perpetrated by the incels of the US government are afraid of paperwork, their own shadow, and anyone they are told to demonize. They make MKUltra look like a merry-go-round.
When governments take seriously the sloppiness of US degradation, instead of properly mocking it (as our university does, with its loaning of phake phones and phalse mock laptops), they give away their power. Take no tyrannical law seriously.
Unfortunately, as any philosopher and historian of science will tell you, sooner or later, the horn effect of not believing in government and unjust rules spreads out into a distrust of everything.