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It turns out that it's not just about requesting social media history.
I guess I'll just keep avoiding this shithole, thanks for the reminder
Yeah, why would anybody go there? Go be a tourist and spend your money in a country that actually welcomes you
Free rectal searches.
Hey Europeans, spread the word. Not only do they want all that info, but if you manage to pass the Esta check and make it to the US, the boarder patrol can reject you for any reason they feel like. They don't just send you back home either, you get detained by a government that has shown flagrant disregarding of human rights. Good luck in one of the gulags we have here that people are dying in on a daily basis. Oh, ya, they are also using torture techniques from Gitmo. You might be better off taking a holiday to North Korea. Maybe the destruction of the tourism industry will cause an introspection of the "both sides" people to wake up and fight against this destruction of America. Who am I kidding, I still see idiots supporting Trump, even after their lives are ruined by his insane policies.
Repeated strip searching of German student girls in April. So sexual assault is ok for US border agents.
German Teens Say They Were Strip-Searched and Imprisoned After Landing in Hawaii https://share.google/y5hwEOk9h98UV7zGZ
It won't happen, but I wish the next administration would commit to destroying all of this data
Kind of like how homeland security went away after we won the war on terror? /S
Yeah, that's the other fucked thing about all this. None of this damage or surveillance will be rolled back by anyone else. It's in place, guess we'll continue to use it.
Would be funny if NORAD's Santa tracker says Santa was denied entry into the Untied States. Except I wouldn't want to upset the children.
Tbh I kinda do want to upset the children. Piss them off and make them ask questions to their shitty-ass parents. Make the families uncomfortable. Maybe we'll teach some kids that their parents are to blame for the state of the world.
Would be interesting to see the Trump administration's reaction if a teacher got in trouble for telling kids that Santa's not allowed to enter the country this year
Merry Christmas! Santa was arrested at the border and ICE has shot four of his eight reindeer. Christmas is canceled this year.
Bringing free toys to children? COMMUNIST.
I'd watch that Christmas movie.
There's hints of it all the way back in Elf with the Central Park cops at the end.
Someone should make a song about it. Reminds me of Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
Yeah we need a generation after us to question and research and get politically involved
Wasn't trump just saying xmas gifts for young children might be something people need sacrifice for the economy? They should totally blame ice for stopping santa
You know, you just created the best holiday hacker gift ever right? Anonymous, you guys still around?
Meanwhile, for US citizens, if you submit to facial recognition, you can literally walk in you the country without showing anyone at all a passport.
Which means they already have every single bit of that data on every American.
And/or they don't want as much resistance. "It's fine to save all this info on non-Americans". The road to fascism often creeps slowly.
That's the split.
It's only visible to "them ferners what ain't shouldn't be here!" So the Libertarian nuts and conspiracy crackpots that scream about Obama still don't see the surveillance state happening to them because they're already distracted.
Not even that long ago I dreamt of travelling to the US and see grand canyon and other natural wonders, drive on road 66 or atleast get a feeling of how the idealistic image of USA painted my movies/music/etc actually is, maybe visit burning man and so on. Now the plan is to stay the fuck out of there unless things change drastically.
Gladly there's a crapload of other places to visit, Kyiv is on my bucket list once things calm down there.
get a feeling of how the idealistic image of USA painted my movies/music/etc
It was all idealism in the end, sorry to ruin the fantasy.
Fine, video conference it is.
Why, checking the skin color with their phone wasn’t enough for them?
DNA testing is important to ensure you are not carrying any diseases into the US soil.
Intelligence, for example.
My plans have not changed. I will continue to avoid the Untied States
It's only going to get worse, and getting rid of Trump won't change anything.
It's time to watch Gattaca again.
In a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics, humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA.
The site linked is toxic i.e., filled up the ass with ads that make it impossible to navigate.
To be fair, that perfectly describes the US as well.
This is correct.