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They are still arresting people who are married to American citizens and going through the normal green card process.
The wife of a fucking active duty national guardsman, in Texas, with an active green card application (filed in 2022), and no criminal record.
They arrested her at her work and deported her to the Honduras. Oh and she had an infant son as well.
~~Nosferatu~~ steven miller loves separating families. The ghoulish shitbag gets off on this stuff.
Ohh yes but americans, i am told, will wake up as soon as true fascism arises. Let me check my notes that is when the group they belong to is being persecuted
So yeah there is at maximum 10.000 people spread across all states fighting against it and by fighting i mean leaving real angry comments online.
Also midterms are around the corner and the "demoncracy" might totally heal itself, so better don't make any fuss or else you will be the reason democrats fuck up again.
Americans can always be relied upon to do the right thing, once we've tried everything else. You don't have to keep reminding us every decade.
Ohh but we absolutely do have to. Remember apartheid south africa? It took the whole world to pressure the U.S. to drop support for that shit.
Can't imagine being a citizen of a country so hell bent on oppression. All i can see is oppression coming home.
And some of us weren't old enough to understand the history of what has already been sown. Ripping weeds by their root is tedious, sometimes tiresome, work
I appreciate the reminder, and understand it's not just a "U.S." problem. But thank you nonetheless. I can't truly apologize for something that I didn't understand I was already a part of... but I'm sorry
I'm trying more than just "angry comments", I promise. It's strange to me; writing a comment and thinking about how it may be used against me, because of things. But here we are, and I refuse to give up my love for people. Sue me. Shoot me. Piss in my cheerios. I'll remain as I can
I used to joke that my goal was to just make it to 65. Good enough for me... but I have new goals now. I'ma live till I'm 92, and godspeed. I hate living in interesting times, but I guess it's what we're doing right now, so fuck it. I'll keep myself and remain kind for others, because hopeless doesn't equal helpless
And Heyyy friends, if you're reading my shit... good
Wow, somebody downvoted you for that. All you can do as a person is do your best to make things better and be a good person in the process. Some people will drag you down in their purity tests, don’t let them. We do what we can.
Hahaha just give us a few decades to flail around first, crying about how we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!
So are they going to lay off any gaurdsman with an immigrant spouse or are they just hoping they aren't angry enough to frag their CO when Trump deploys them?
At this point, I don't think they can think past, "Hur, dur, immigrants bad."
"I just want immigrants to be LEGAL!"
My wife was married to an American for over 2 years and lived in America the whole time. That makes her 10-year visa renewal a rubber stamp. NOPE. Now that we're married, the government is non-stop fucking with her to make sure it's not a false marriage.
Added her to my bank account and almost all the utilities. NOPE. Not good enough. She yelled at me for tossing mailed bills that I pay online. Now she gets the mail. And those pieces of paper have to be mailed off for approval. 6-months later, "Yeah, we're gonna need more proof." Next I'm sending them a pic of me railing her in a sundress in front of the house, address plainly visible, with a fucking geotag. "Enough?"
Pics or cap
Kids or it didn't happen. /s
While I'm not shooting blanks, she's fresh out of eggs. :)
god damn price of eggs
Wtf is a “pre-seed founder”?
I’m stalwart enough in my leftism that anything that corpos love makes me question it immediately. I’ve nothing inherent against immigrants/refugees who come here through the (very flawed) process or even those who don’t but come here, integrate, and then contribute/participate positively within the communities they immigrate to.
However, the H1B shit just seems to a) exploit minorities/immigrants while holding their visa over their head (dems shouldn’t like this based on their principles) while b) outsources jobs that could likely be given to existing, qualified citizens (republicans shouldn’t this based on their principles), c) all to ultimately benefit a corporation’s quarterly earnings.
I dislike Trump as much as the next guy but I don’t currently have an issue with him obliterating the H1B program.
it's before you nut money
Startup founder that has no seed (venture capital) money yet, e.g. they haven’t gone through a funding round yet. They’re funding the startup with their own money to start off.
"Their own money" being small business loans often from the Bank of Mom and Pop more realistically.
Depends, but definitely highly possible.
Sometimes it's their own money saved up from a successful career (less likely), sometimes it's parents money (more likely), sometimes it's an actual business loan.
In her case it seems like one of the first two because she went to a very expensive university and has had pretty decent jobs in the tech industry since then.
Much as I hate AI being put into everything just to get funding (and I have no idea if it was thrown in there as a buzzword or if she actually believes AI can improve things), it seems she's trying to get more people into lifting weights via the product they're making, so that's cool at least. Should keep half an eye on it just for fun.
Preseeding is making a new product, this is before / to get funding.
A shitposter of capitalism with an idea and nothing else in other words.
Basically yeah. But when it comes to startups, actually making something of value is optional. Hell, I know people who have had legitimately good ideas with working proof of concept, but have struggled to get funding because when it comes to venture capital, the main test is one's ability to peddle the right kind of bullshit.
A pre-seed founder is like precum. It doesn’t amount to anything worthwhile to show for
Until it does ...
In startup land there are various named rounds of funding:
Pre-seed means you don't really have any investors and don't have an equity system set up. You're just somehow supporting yourself while trying to get your initial idea/demo/deck together.
Seed means that an investor (typically called angels) has given you enough money to live on while you develop things to the point that you're presenting to actual VCs.
Lmao consider me pre-seed then, where’s my money lmao.
"Pre-seed tech entrepreneur" is going right onto my CV.
Series D: it could be going really good… or it could be going really bad. Either way, you need cash.
Like a few other things, it could have been good if done intelligently.
100k is the right line for tech. But we always need medical.
They're just going to exempt big tech anyway. And people who are here completely legitimately shouldn't have to worry, but they do.
If you switch companies, still in the US, you are going to need a new H1B so...
My dumb ass thought this was about the lube marketed to couples trying to have kids
Capital (money) investor. More like donation. That's what I make of it -- someone can correct me.
It sounds like a founder before they got a first seed round of investment, which usually leads to those first seed investors labelling themselves as “founders” too, so trying to differentiate with like “(co)-founded the business before we had external capital, e.g. did actual work instead of buying my way in.”
That being said though, generally in my experience the more someone talks about being a “founder” the less they actually did beyond secure funding and blabber on about “vision” and “product” while others did the real work.
This will definitely be a TED talk in the future and silicon valley people will think the person(likely a man) is amazing and "ground breaking"
Lol, as if a visa or even granted citizenship ever stopped Trump before.