@liaizon granted, I wounder why @sixtus got one...

• Maybe it was since the #US doesn't seem to have #PressFreedom and demands #Jour.alists to register in advance?

Cuz AFAICT there's no benefit fir a #Visa compared to #ESTA since the #USA (and #Japan, abeit the latter one isn't notorious for it) allows it's #CPB to reject entrants at random with neither dispute resolution nor appeals.

@liaizon Not shure if @sixtus ever went to the #USA, tho I'm convinced he hasn't had the desire since the #Trump regime is in power.

• Tho I remember his legendary #HotTake for the 1st Trump term.

#USpol #sarcasm

@bovine3dom @maartje @jon I realize you're (hopefully) being sarcastic, but for all those other folks who need to hear it... #Trains are a public service, they shouldn't need to turn a profit. The economic benefit they provide back to the state that subsidizes them, when they are affordable to be used by all, is way larger than an extra few dollars per ticket will provide. It should be glaringly obvious that this #neoliberal mental illness that insists all public services need to be profitable or privatized creates the affordability crisises we are currently seeing in the #uk and #usa which is pushing people further into poverty and towards embracing facist ideologies. Of course if you are part of the ownership class this is exactly what you designed (to whomever is reading this, no you're not in that class and you never well be).