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Remember some years ago when people were posting online like "in Russia it's illegal to post this picture of Putin π€£" with this pic? 
Now that's the USA.
"Mads told Nordlys he tried to explain the images as being harmless and meant as jokes but the immigration authorities ignored his pleas. He claims he was then strip-searched, forced to give blood samples, a facial scan and fingerprints."
Blood for Memes, incredible
blood samples
I guess the rules changed since 2020:
CBP is NOT collecting DNA from persons encountered under the following circumstances:
Aliens lawfully in, or being processed for lawful admission into the United States;
Aliens held at a Port of Entry during consideration of admissibility and not subject to further detention or proceedings;
Aliens held in connection with maritime interdiction;
or When the FBI system, NCIC, indicates CODIS already contains a DNA profile for the individual.
Fascists don't follow any rules except what their Fuehrer says.
If you're going to the US, backup your data and wipe your phone clean of everything personal. Play dumb, leave Facebook & Instagram installed etc.
Don't do anything remotely fancy, because these mf-ers are just entitled children with a gun, they own you.
Or visit Europe
Or visit Europe
There are plenty of beautiful place to see and great people to meet in Europe too, and you can see and meet them all without subjecting yourself to Gestapo-style thuggery upon arrival.
For now. It's not looking to bright over here either, but compared to the US it's much better ofc.
Or come to Canada. We're mostly nice. Ignore those bots in Albertastan
Hoping to visit soon this summer! Not too thrilled with the idea of having to come back home, with all this going on.
Assuming you're coming from the US, where are you coming from? Driving or flying? Troy's travel tips and unsolicited advice for free, this evening only!
Hoping to head out to BC and maybe Alberta last, depending on the amount of time I have. I'll be driving, I live in Montana so I'm close.
I suggest visiting Lake Okanagan. Take a wine tour. Pick some fruit. Go swimming at Skaha Lake. It's the most beautiful part of Canada in my books, with Banff a close second.
Aha, "just south of me", I say from a thousand miles away.
If you're a mountains person, yeah BC is the place to be. But it's also same-same as what you can see in a lot of places in the US in the mountains. Like, you won't tell the difference between much of BC and much of Washington.
If you've got the time, go straight north from your location. Way way north. Go to Yellowknife, and do it in March -- it's about three days driving. You'll get there and they'll have northern lights galore, ice castles on the lake, people driving their trucks on the ice to their houseboats that have just frozen into the ice for the season...
Or go in summer and go fishing there. The lake is 600m (1900ft) deep... Trout like tuna.
Unsolicited advice ends ;)
How do we know you arenβt just a sentient mosquito. Isnβt it the national bird of northern Canada?
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Hey, thanks for that advice! I'll definitely have to go check those places out! :)
hmm, I was thinking about visiting Calgary this summer. What's up with Alberta?
They're trying very hard to be Texas north. The Premier of the province is ignoring science and, in many cases, logic. Anti-vax. That's one reason they have more measles than the entire USA. There is even a fringe group that wants Alberta to secede from Canada and join the US.
The economy is largely based on oil, so many of them deny climate change.
Ironically, they have some of the most beautiful scenery in the country, if not the world.
gramie already mostly answered in line with what I'd say: there is an alt-right political shift there, where the lunatics are running the asylum and we keep expecting for sanity to re-emerge. Every country has a pocket like this somewhere. Most people in Calgary are perfectly nice, in the same way that most people in Omaha are perfectly nice, until a trans person is on TV.
The NDP just won 2/3 of last weeks byelections here. We do have a loud minority voice of right wing crazy but if anything the province is moving away from the right.
Wish you luck π€
I am involved in local governance here and its not fun under the UCP but its not the bleak right wing hellscape the rest of the nation says it is.
Iβd ignore Quebec, anywhere else is beautiful.
Montreal's reeeal nice this time of year.
If you have to go to the US as part of a business trip for work, just resign. It's safer.
At this point absolutely! Things are only going to escalate. Especially once elections time comes around and the US citizens realize there wonβt be another legitimate election.
Or, if at all possible, don't do business with the US.
Y'all are making it so easy to keep these fuckin' elbows up.
President Rapist, Couchfucker Veep.
This is America. It's pitiable.
As much fun as we're having sharing and resharing this ridiculous image of a ridiculous person, this is actually a very serious problem.
gee, i hope no one reposts this image. on every platform. every day. from now on.
Yet, I don't see it posted in these comments yet.
Didn't that belong to HR Giger?
TIL JD likes sloppy seconds
Critique of the dear leader is forbidden. Freedom truly is dead.
It's a movie plot but I wish somehow hackers could inject random anti Trump memes on all phones just to see what happens.
This poor guy was abused and it speaks terribly about the nature of the U.S. There are so many people willing to beat and abuse other people for no other reason than they are given a green light to do so. It's pretty disgusting. People are afraid to voice criticism. When I criticize the U.S. it's because I believed all of the things I was told as a kid that were only partly true, that it's a great county. When people criticize the U.S. they are holding it to a higher standard, they want it to be better. If you can't take criticism you're weak and it shows you don't want to improve or make corrections.
They will not stop with tourists and immigrants. They're preparing to crush democratic resistance.
Got lucky. Next person they find with one will be sent to the concentration camps.
Quick! Someone make it a Garbage Pale Kid card. π€£
Bro did nothing wrong
Mads Mikkelsen
Did anyone else immediately think of Galen Erso?
In all seriousness this is really scary and Iβm glad the guy is ok.