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Hit me that I have something that truly has the quality we’re pretending bluechecks do — global entry. Amazing feeling of lording it over the peasants for $20/y. “TSA pre” on boarding pass feels great. Strolling past long immigration line to short global entry line: priceless.
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For $20/y you can feel 10% superior to other American citizens every time you re-enter the country.
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When I first traded my Indian passport for a US one after 14y in immigration system it felt like an exhausted anticlimax. All I could think of was the sadness of a world carved up by borders where access and identity are inextricably linked. But global entry was woohoo feeling.
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I wonder if this is why I can’t take bluecheck shit seriously, or even earned “deeper” credentials I ought to be proud of like PhD. After you’ve spent a decade arriving at “green card” you get the hobbessian grimness of *real* credentials hammered into you.
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