Check out the new US passport

6/28/2026 at 12:35:48 AM

'“Welcome, but be good” is not the language of citizenship. It is the language of a landlord. Or a bouncer. Or a king.'

Double creepy with the dog-growling posture in the picture, with a side of dumb, as passports are not visas.

The point about merging the "brand" of the USA with the "brand" of Trump is spot on; definitely a disturbing pattern here. Narcissist of fascist? Why not both?

by stevenalowe

6/28/2026 at 4:27:40 AM

More importantly, the US isn’t the one welcoming someone holding a US passport, so the phrase is nonsense and reflects a complete lack of understanding or at least thought as to the purpose of the document

by mslt

6/27/2026 at 8:48:15 PM

Is this for real?

by sscaryterry

6/27/2026 at 9:08:23 PM

yes but it's an optional limited edition run

by ccvannorman

6/27/2026 at 9:10:57 PM

And only available in person at the Washington Passport Agency.

by rorylawless

6/28/2026 at 3:56:10 AM

For the moment, anyway.

by pseudohadamard

6/27/2026 at 9:08:10 PM

The passport is real, this style of book will be a limited-edition option when you renew.

The article, though, is AI slop.

by joezydeco

6/27/2026 at 9:15:19 PM

The author is a macro economy writer with a 10 years old Twitter account. Most of the article is a quote, then his personal opinion. https://mishtalk.com/about/ I'm all for calling out automated content written by AI/LLM but this one doesn't seem to be.

by mtmail

6/28/2026 at 3:56:47 AM

> Most of the article is a quote

The quote absolutely reads like AI slop.

by unmole

6/27/2026 at 10:16:39 PM

Its entirely possible they still used some sort of AI to either transcript or edit their content tho, even if personally dictated by them etc. At which point slop becomes human authorship depends on your POV i guess

by tough

6/28/2026 at 12:41:35 AM

That’s not what “AI slop” means and I’m confident you know that.

by forestry

6/28/2026 at 3:37:16 PM

Yeah, it might be not AI Slop, what I was trying to confer, it's using the hallmarks of AI like the em-dashes etc, and yes i know "Good writing" contained this much before AI was trained on it, i guess i just meant to say i can see why someone at first sight could get confused on if its AI or not memerely due to formatting. But yeah, that's not "Slop"

by tough

6/27/2026 at 11:38:15 PM

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by netsharc

6/28/2026 at 6:10:10 AM

Integrate or be deported. Try to culturally take over and experience the same. You joined a recipe that works from a place that does not work (as well). Some not at all. Do not bring that recipe for cultural disaster into this country.

by warumdarum

6/28/2026 at 7:03:48 PM

Yeh, learn Diné and Ute or go back to Scotland.

by scarecrowbob

6/28/2026 at 6:29:03 AM

Appeals to culture are so cringe in the context of support for Con-ald fucking Grump, who has been the worst thing to happen to our culture and our country in my lifetime. Exhibit A: this train wreck of a "passport". I know you desperately want there to be some innate quality you personally possess that is responsible for "great" things, but the only thing you're actually demonstrating is utterly hopeless gullibility.

by mindslight

6/28/2026 at 10:28:40 AM

Your refusal to even analyze the topic, which you usually declare "just backwards folklore and superstition " gives the game away. Every place that mindset was allowed to run free has burned down to cinders, one way or another. 1 billion people are stuck in learned helplessness in the islamic world. The atheism of the soviet block eats itself right now in a invasion of ukraine. Europe is a getontocratic powderkeg of parallel societies. Everything this "anti-culture" has touched, withers and dies, and all that remains is the hateful comments and insult, of the disabled unable to even comprehend where his failures even originate from,loudly demanding decomplexification of society as final murderous act. Oh and btw fuck trump for trying a soft aspossible break away from this malstrom of failure that is the society your kind tries to compose without any attempt to understand human nature.

by warumdarum

6/28/2026 at 3:39:24 PM

> Your refusal to even analyze the topic

No, I do think culture is important. As I said, exhibit A: a passport design based on cult-of-personality rather than any lofty values of citizenship. Move over Lady Liberty - we've got this angry old guy, well past his prime, hunched over and glaring at you instead.

> which you usually declare "just backwards folklore and superstition"

I don't know who you are imagining here, but it's not me.

> trump for trying a soft aspossible break away from this malstrom of failure that is the society your kind tries to compose

Here is what you refuse to understand - Grump is not a "break away" but rather a further full-on embrace of our society's sickness, merely dressed up in different buntings. That exact "loudly demanding decomplexification of society as final murderous act" you've put your finger on but are too invested in to even recognize it. You've mistaken rambling screeds for focused criticism, destruction for reform, and condemnation by your fellow countrymen for success.

by mindslight

6/28/2026 at 7:49:46 PM

Have you ever interacted with another society? As in visited a place, learned the language to get what the locals talk about when not filtered by the upper crust filter that is a 2nd language. Who are you to declare a society sick or healthy? Why do your high standards only ever apply to the us? Where does this breath taking arrogance derive its moral authority from?

by warumdarum

6/28/2026 at 9:04:52 PM

> Who are you to declare a society sick or healthy?

I thought we were coming from shared ground here. If there are no problems with our society, then your own comments have no basis.

> Why do your high standards only ever apply to the us?

Because it's my society and I live here?

> Where does this breath taking arrogance derive its moral authority from?

It's called western civilization, and it is the exact thing you're also invoking. Once again this should be common ground, and trying to disown its application to my comment is completely disingenuous.

by mindslight