It turns out that it’s not just about requesting social media history.

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    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.

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      Yeah, why would anybody go there? Go be a tourist and spend your money in a country that actually welcomes you

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    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.

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      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.

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        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

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          Merry Christmas! Santa was arrested at the border and ICE has shot four of his eight reindeer. Christmas is canceled this year.

          • Zahille7@lemmy.world
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            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.

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      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

  • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz
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    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.

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      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.

    • Final Remix@lemmy.world
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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.