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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] 111 points 3 days ago (5 children)

This can't be true because conservatives always cry about free speech.

If this is true then that means conservatives are massive hypocritical assholes.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

You don't think they would do that?

Just go on the internet and tell lies?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (4 children)

If you are doing any international travel, leave your personal phone at home and bring a burner.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

It's for the best, really.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Up next pictures of couches

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

JD considers those pornography

[–] [email protected] 180 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This not only has been going on awhile, it's worse than it sounds.

A French scientist was denied entry at the border earlier this year, in March, after officers unearthed messages criticising Trump on his phone.

Mikkelsen explained: "They threatened me with a minimum fine of $5,000 or five years in prison if I refused to provide the password to my phone."

[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Any idea if these threats are actionable? He's not a US citizen to just fine or imprison.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They have "deported" dozens of US citizens at this point. Usually, being a non-citizen makes you more vulnerable to arbitrary bullshit at the border, whereas if you're a citizen you can stand up much more so for your rights if they're trying to push you into something illegal, but as of this year it's starting to matter less and less.

Everything is actionable once the rule of law collapses. At this point, if you're crossing the border, you're in danger of whatever they want to do to you.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

i think this is a concept that a lot of people are having a hard time grasping: laws are meaningless if no one enforces them. this 100% applies both to laws meant to protect you, AND laws meant to punish those who are harming you

On the other hand his actions are not regulated by law or by any clearly formulated code of behaviour. In Oceania there is no law. Thoughts and actions which, when detected, mean certain death are not formally forbidden, and the endless purges, arrests, tortures, imprisonments, and vaporizations are not inflicted as punishment for crimes which have actually been committed, but are merely the wiping-out of persons who might perhaps commit a crime at some time in the future.

-1984

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 250 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Our leaders are NOT Snowflakes or Emotional!

[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 days ago
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