They are like the police or the car salesmen: they do this every day or so, you do it once every 5 years. If you're not careful, you won't even know what happened there, not until you see the consequences. Protect your own career and interests.

The best thing one can do both for oneself and the remaining employees is vote with their feet. If enough employees do that, things may change. Don't burn bridges when you leave.

I work for a boss whose anonymous yearly reviews are atrocious every single year. Nothing ever changes, he's still running the department. The organization is rotten to the top, and no honest feedback will ever change that. I bet not even most of us leaving.

We are so nice to non-citizens in America that many of them actually do think they are legally a citizen's equal, except for voting rights. (I used to think that myself.) They are not.

I'm quite sure that's their main job, finding out who are the adversaries of the regime.

And we don't really whether the JD Vance meme wasn't just the frosting on the cake. All we have is the tourist's word.

My last border crossing, a few days ago: "What was the purpose of your travel? ... What are you bringing back with you? ... Welcome home." Took one minute.

It's just that most Europeans' native language is not English or some other language spoken by hundreds of millions or billions of people. So they have to learn at least one foreign language to function in the modern world. And many European countries require children to learn two of them. Some require passing language exams as part of the high school graduation.

I studied English and French in school. My native tongue is spoken by about 15 million people in the world, the official language of my native country (which I also speak fluently) is spoken by about 20. One gets a lot of motivation from knowing that, by learning English, one will be able to speak to billions.