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A 21-year-old tourist has described the horrendous treatment he allegedly received after being denied entry to the USA due to a meme depicting JD Vance as bald being found on his phone

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Just get a burner to travel. Quit bringing your phones here.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

not reading that. lemmy devs, please get on blocking "news" sources in the vein of sun, nypost, etc.

edit: I don't mean the mods should ban domains. I want the option to not show submissions from certain domains, like the ones I mentioned, as there's zero chance I'd ever read anything from them. a buncha reddit (and lemmy) clients have that option.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You mean implementing a functionality with which users can block posts from certain URLs to show up on their feeds?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's not something the admins can do. Ask the devs for that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's why their comment above says "devs", not "admins" lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Must have been edited. It did say admins before.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Or educate yourself and learn to filter based on the source of the data. Doesn't mean the reporting is not factual but it may be embellished to serve a narrative.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Lets teach that uneducated moron Vance the Streisand effect.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

JD Vance meme

No, that’s just how he looks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That's when he consumed a couch

[–] [email protected] 106 points 2 days ago (6 children)

imagine going on holiday in a country where they check your phone for memes

seeing the grand canyon seems cool but it can wait until that lunatic and his friends are gone

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Keep in mind that TSA searching peoples' phones was already policy under the last few administrations. Which is part of why I wasnt interested in traveling there even before the lunatic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

that's crazy honestly

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I thought this was the onion but its real... :)

It seems the mentality of the United States rulership have shifted back to the dark ages.

I wonder if accusing people of being witches is next.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I wonder if accusing people of being witches is next.

wouldn't be surprised

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Absolutely!

I have family in the US. Uncles and aunts and cousins. One of my cousins have a child who I've never met. I would love to meet them all.

But there is no way I'm going to the states in the current condition. And even if the administration would be replaced, I think it would take years for the states to recover to the point where I would visit.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (4 children)

See - this is the thing with people going on about how its so oppressive in countries outside of "The West" where they will arrest people for insulting their king on Facebook or some shit.

We are no better. I'm not American but Britain does the same kind of shit. Read some declassified police case files, the cops pick on weird shit on people's phones.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

And this is just for insulting the king's jester.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

States are states are states are states. They just fucking do that.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've been in Britain before, they didn't check my phone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And even if, a meme about someone in the UK government would also not get you denied entry.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

While you are all memeing fascism advances, great job all

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