I’m wondering if I should just delete lemmy to stay under the radar. 🤔 (I’m a US Citizen currently residing in the US, and moving out of the country is not really an option)

I feel so conflicted on this. On one hand, this is kinda like giving in to authoritarianism, but on the other hand, dissenting is kinda dangerous. 😓

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    301·
    2 days ago

    I don’t see them coming for all of us. It’s just not practical to arrest everyone who complains.

    It all comes down to other characteristics:

    • are you someone influential or high profile they can make an example of, to promote fear?
    • do you have any connection to another country, no matter how tenuous, where they can use this as an excuse to deport?
    • are you part of another demographic bias they want to persecute, such as lgbt, where they can use this as an excuse to legally persecute?
    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      15·
      2 days ago

      are you someone influential or high profile they can make an example of, to promote fear?

      I’m just a nobody. No wikipedia pages or anything like that.

      do you have any connection to another country, no matter how tenuous, where they can use this as an excuse to deport?

      I was born in PRC. The US government could frame me as a “CCP Spy”, but like dude, I’m the most anti-CCP ethnic Chinese person in the US. I’m honesely afraid to getting deported then I’ll have to explain to the CCP about all those Anti-CCP stuff I said. (I’m end up in prison).

      Like it doesn’t even make sense for me to be a “CCP Spy”, they literally tried arrest my mother and tried to terminate me (I was the second child that my mother had during the One Child Policy). Why would I ever help a party that almost prevented my existence?

      are you part of another demographic bias they want to persecute, such as lgbt, where they can use this as an excuse to legally persecute?

      I’m not really LGBT, but I really have no desire to seek a relationship so I think I’m just asexual/aromantic which the Magats would probably consider a “sexual deviant” or whatever bs deogratory label they wanna make, but like I could lie and say I’m straight.

      I’m Chinese American, so, judging by the “China virus” racist rhetoric, orange cheeto doesn’t like people like me. 👀

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 days ago

        Yep. You too might be a criminal, gangster, drug dealing, illegal immigrant that should be deported. If China won’t take you back, we can dump you somewhere else.