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by b0dhimind 405 days ago
They've also got a case of orange man bad syndrome. Jokes aside, why would they cancel? Don't they want to contribute to efforts to understand root causes?
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You may not understand how deeply the distrust is of this current government by many.

"Just names in a list" hasn't fared well throughout history, including if your name is currently on any DHS watchlist, often for just sounding similar to someone else who might be from a foreign country, with no way to even know about it without info from the FISA court.

read about the history of Nazi Germany and disease registries, with special attention to what specifically happened to those people who found their names in these registries.