America sucks more every day. It truly amazes me how far it's fallen in the past 20 years.
US bars friends over Twitter joke
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#72So, aside from the discussion around the journalistic standards of the Sun, now the Department of Homeland Security is monitoring the twitter accounts of British citizens?
Furthermore, how did DHS match up a twitter handle with a passport number?
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#73Have no more fear, your country is safe from all terrorists who tweet about their plans. Truthfully, I wouldn't have expected this from America, they're the kind of jokes I could imagine myself making on Twitter, but will be careful not to before future trips there.. This is pretty much what I think of when going to China, and what makes me specially careful not to say anything the Chinese could take as a threat. Heh…
US is done as the "land of the free". It's still very hard for many people to believe it, but it's true. I mean it's 47th place in the world for freedom of press now - 47th! That's far from the beacon of freedom US used to be. Whenever I see the heavily armed and militarized police in US and how they react to protesters, it's like I'm watching news about Russia or something.
I left the country in 2008, and I'm wondering if I'll ever go back. It's only gotten worse since I've been gone. It's almost to the point where I'm not even sure I want to visit any time soon.
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#74Shenanigans. 1) Where did they get the pictured Homeland Security report if HS "declined to comment"? If accurate, it looks like the sort of communication that an agency that refused to comment on an story would not be too quick to divulge. There is no mention of a FOI application, which I'm not even sure two foreigners are entitled to. 2) The two posing clowns are just that kind you would expect to be the butt of jo…
Did you also notice Tweeter in that report?
Where can I get an account on this Tweeter website...?
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
US is done as the "land of the free". It's still very hard for many people to believe it, but it's true. I mean it's 47th place in the world for freedom of press now - 47th! That's far from the beacon of freedom US used to be. Whenever I see the heavily armed and militarized police in US and how they react to protesters, it's like I'm watching news about Russia or something.
I left the country in 2008, and I'm wondering if I'll ever go back. It's only gotten worse since I've been gone. It's almost to the point where I'm not even sure I want to visit any time soon.
I left in 1997, and haven't visited since.
You get used to it.
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#76Have no more fear, your country is safe from all terrorists who tweet about their plans. Truthfully, I wouldn't have expected this from America, they're the kind of jokes I could imagine myself making on Twitter, but will be careful not to before future trips there.. This is pretty much what I think of when going to China, and what makes me specially careful not to say anything the Chinese could take as a threat. Heh…
These stories we keep seeing do the US no good at all. From the outside the you look don't look very attractive to visit or do business with.
I know that for me everything I'm hearing has dropped the US quite a bit on my "places to visit" list.
To be fair, I realize my impression is probably slanted because of the origin and type of foreign news I'm exposed to.
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#77Just for anyone unfamiliar with thesun news paper. They are the paper that goes out with the sole intention of polluting a story with utter crap just to fuel drama and sell more papers. They are the by far the worst paper owned by the Murdoch empire and is an embarrassment to the whole of the UK. Anything written by the Sun can be discarded as total balls.
Your comment has the same balance and factual content as an editorial in the Sun.
Were you going for irony?
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
That period includes the internment of 110000 Japanese Americans in War Relocation Camps without any kind of due process. Land of the free, unless your parents were born in the wrong country.
Well, that depends on whether he meant when we gave black people the right to vote on paper (after the Civil War) or when black people effectively got the right to vote (1965). I assumed he meant the latter ;-)
Oops. Sorry, my lack of knowledge of the US history is showing.
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#79I don't know what else to say then people like those border agents and the incredible stupidity they seem to posses are a bigger danger to humanity than anyone else could ever be. It's so ridiculous that it's not even funny anymore and I for one will not conduct business with, nor visit the US before things change for the better there. They have to treat their own people better as well as visitors, not only the rich.…
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a lot of europe.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
US is done as the "land of the free". It's still very hard for many people to believe it, but it's true. I mean it's 47th place in the world for freedom of press now - 47th! That's far from the beacon of freedom US used to be. Whenever I see the heavily armed and militarized police in US and how they react to protesters, it's like I'm watching news about Russia or something.
When _was_ it the land of the free? The period between giving black people the vote and the PATRIOT act? Even then, it was hardly number one.
The US spend a very large portion of the 20th century being significantly freer than most other places on earth.
Certainly not perfect (especially not if you were black, Japanese, gay or communist), that would be a silly claim, but freer.