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Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by kyrre »

flopto wrote: post #147
kyrre wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm calling bullshit on this story. I can't find any reports of TSA conducting these types of cavity searches. Ever.

I couldn't find the story I was looking for but here are a few. Both TSA and CBP represented here; the CBP stories are closer to what the grandparent post describes. These stories describe sexual assault graphically (to various degrees). https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110906/11065015824/tsa-a... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/woman-sues-borde... http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigrati…

Reading these reports do you find the story 1) more likely or 2) less likely to have occurred?

Remember, he (or rather his GF) claimed the Houston TSA were routinely performing prison type cavity searches, i.e., strip, squat (and cough).

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by pg314 »

kyrre wrote: post #112
8draco8 wrote: post #10

I live in Europe. From my perspective going to US looks like going to some kind totalitarian country. First I have to got visa which is not automatically approved because I'm Polish not British. Then I have to go trough a lot of, mostly pointless, security checks, checking social accounts, interrogations, scans and manual personal revisions. On any stage of that I can be handcuffed and sent back to Europe for almost…

Judging by the narrative the media is putting out one would think that Poland is a nightmare patriarchal state where rape victims are denied abortion and politicians agree that woman should be paid less because they are too 'small, weak and unintelligent' for equal pay. Be more critical. Traveling to the US is a breeze for Europeans.

> Traveling to the US is a breeze for Europeans.

No, it isn't. I am European, travelled twice to the US last year. Each time multi-hour wait for the USCBP check. From take-off in Brussels to landing in NYC took less time than getting from JFK to Manhattan.

If I can avoid it, I will not be travelling to the US any time soon.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by belorn »

ItendToDisagree wrote: post #102
microtonal wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for bringing up, since it is a relevant point. However, it still does not change the fact that he is now leading the most powerful nation, with all its consequences. I have always wondered how hard it would be to switch to direct voting rather as opposed to the system with an electoral college. Is it impossible because the current system is codified in the constitution, or does it 'only' require an amendment.…

Parliamentary representation and more than two parties would fix things up a treat.

Most Parliamentary representation I know do still have seats allocation based on districts/political areas, and thus the biggest issue people have with electoral system would still be there. Even the EU with the EU parliament have degressive proportionality system where the larger the state the more citizens are represented per seat.

In the end, the idea that low population area have more impact-per-voter comes from the need to keep people united and making sure that high population areas don't completely out vote the needs of the other areas. The obvious alternative is independence, so instead of one united states you would have several smaller countries based on common needs.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by pferde »

Markoff wrote: post #141
kyrre wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Judging by the narrative the media is putting out one would think that Poland is a nightmare patriarchal state where rape victims are denied abortion and politicians agree that woman should be paid less because they are too 'small, weak and unintelligent' for equal pay. Be more critical. Traveling to the US is a breeze for Europeans.

Traveling to the US is a breeze for white Europeans. FTFY

A breeze for white Europeans who do not mind all the privacy intrusions and indecencies they have to go through if they so much as blink their eyes or make a face at the wrong moment.

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Post by dghf »

microtonal wrote: post #72
ItendToDisagree wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The majority of US citizens did not vote for Trump. Just thought I'd point out that most people DO NOT want this president.

Thanks for bringing up, since it is a relevant point. However, it still does not change the fact that he is now leading the most powerful nation, with all its consequences. I have always wondered how hard it would be to switch to direct voting rather as opposed to the system with an electoral college. Is it impossible because the current system is codified in the constitution, or does it 'only' require an amendment.…

> I have always wondered how hard it would be to switch to direct voting rather as opposed to the system with an electoral college. Is it impossible because the current system is codified in the constitution, or does it 'only' require an amendment. If so, was there ever a serious attempt to change this system?

The constitution simply says that each state gets to appoint its electors as it sees fit.

Wit that in mind, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact [0] commits states that adopt it to appointing their electors in line with the national popular vote: e.g., in the 2016 election, had it been in force, every state that had adopted it would have chosen electors for Hillary, regardless of how the vote in that state fell.

So far, it has been adopted in principle by 10 states and the District of Columbia. However, it doesn't come into force until adopted by enough states to achieve an absolute majority in the electoral college; currently, it's 105 votes shy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by ItendToDisagree »

kyrre wrote: post #158
ItendToDisagree wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're going to profile and be proud... At least profile the correct demographic. http://time.com/3934980/right-wing-extremists-white-terroris...

The study linked in your article has been updated (Spoiler alert: Radical Islam has retaken the lead by 2x) https://www.newamerica.org/in-depth/terrorism-in-america/wha... How would it look if we factored in the relative population? > B-but you are more likely to be killed by white trucker driver falling asleep than a jihadist truck hijacker. Misleading much?

Only in the past two years have there been more jihadist deaths. Not sure where you got 2x from? Unless you mean one particular year? You may want to re-read.

In reality the KKK has killed more people than all jihadists combined. That is one group.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by edanm »

I really can't believe all the negativity here towards traveling to the US. You're taking a few admittedly awful anecdotes, and turning them into giant statistics about the country.

You know that thought experiment where you have scientists debating global warming, but to make it clear just how much consensus there is, instead of having 1 scientist against and 1 pro, you have 1 against and a whole crowd pro?

I run this thought experiment every time I enter the states. I can usually see around me many thousands of people in the airport, getting along just fine. I can imagine the many tens of thousands who go through those airports every day, and the probably millions all across the country who go through the airports without trouble.

These millions are what you should be stacking up against the dozens of anecdotes you get on the web.

(For what it's worth, I have had very easy experiences with immigration, with mostly people being very nice to me, but a few times someone was rude/mean to me. Nothing more than that.)

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by th4dv »

kidmenot wrote: post #42
isaac_is_goat wrote: post #26

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This has nothing to do with Trump, it was going on during the Obama era - and probably Bush and before (but I'm not sure) - but it was never a problem until now. Stop spreading FUD.

This has nothing to do with FUD, sorry. It's only one of the factors that discourages me from visiting, and if now it has become a problem, it means that this presidency somehow made it worse.

> now it has become a problem

It's always been a problem. It's just that now main stream media focus more on these issues to force the anti-trump agenda. (I'm not a huge fan of Trump btw.)

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