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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2019 14:11:43 CEST Aral Balkan

   What kind of a world have we built where we have to justify, in writing, something as natural as parents visiting their children? That’s exactly what I just had to do so my Turkish parents can get a visa to visit me in Ireland. Here’s the letter of invitation I just wrote.

   • Mathieu [bochecha] (mathieu@mstdn.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2019 14:32:13 CEST Mathieu [bochecha]

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     @aral in a similar vein, my wife needs a handwritten letter from me if she wants to go and see her family in Hong Kong with our son, without which the French authorities won't let her leave the country.

     Fuck borders, and fuck patriarchy. ?

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • Dunkman Fresh (twome@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2019 17:11:39 CEST Dunkman Fresh

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     @aral god capitalism is so morally repulsive. to add to the disgust, I'm legally capable of gaining an Irish passport through my Irish grandparents despite knowing nothing about Ireland, having never been there, not speaking a word of Gaelic and not even knowing who the Irish head of state is. Borders and citizenship-via-inheritance is despicable racism.

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • Martin Constantino-Bodin (martinshadok@aleph.land)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2019 17:52:53 CEST Martin Constantino-Bodin

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     @aral I already had to do a similar letter for my wife to visit me abroad.

     I had the additional bonus that we speak together a language that the VISA people would probably not know. So I had to write such a letter in a language that I would never use with my wife. This is so strange and insane ☹

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2019 19:15:22 CEST Aral Balkan

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     • Dunkman Fresh

     @twome Hear, hear!