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Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by pjc50 »

bmn__ wrote: post #498
pjc50 wrote: post #471

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Must have been a long time ago, because efforts to remove "he" as the default gender have been ongoing for years (80s?) and everybody has more or less settled on they rather than the awkward he/she.

You are in a bubble if you think that "everybody has […] settled on they". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21179524

> All natural languages I know are gendered the same way English is.

Finnish has always been gender-neutral: https://finland.fi/han/article/

Chinese and Japanese also do not have grammatical gender. Chinese imported gendered pronouns about a century ago for ease of translating Western gendered languages, but both languages tend to either refer to people by name or have no word at all and infer from sentence structure.

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by magicalhippo »

tpm wrote: post #562
magicalhippo wrote: post #526

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Not exactly entirely outside[1] the EU either though, having applied for membership in 2009 and receiving full candidacy status in 2012. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Serbia_to_the_Eur...

It is entirely outside of the EU until it's a member country. Serbia doesn't have any special status like Switzerland or Norway that are closer to the EU even if they are not members, and anyway the leadership of Serbia is currently closer to Russia than to the EU.

Technically you're of course correct.

Though my point was that as someone who's moved into a EU country, it might not be entirely clear that it's not inside EU, given it's proximity and that they might have read about it in an EU context given its status.

Heck I'm in Norway and had to check to make sure I was right.

Of course, second time around there's no excuse.

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by navane »

mikedelfino wrote: post #360
brookst wrote: post #181

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It makes sense if you view it as an intentional effort to demonize the US. Terrorizing visiting tourists is a great way to get the “we are crazy, your best never come here” message out. The simplest explanation is that this administration wants the US to be hated and sees atrocities as an important tool in that effort.

> The simplest explanation is that this administration wants the US to be hated Why would they want that?

To forge the cult -- the more outside hate the more inside cohesion.

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by navane »

mcflubbins wrote: post #205
praptak wrote: post #83

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Non-punitive my ass. The German tourist was put for eight days in solitary confinement: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/ice-german-t...

This is nuts. > Brösche had her German passport, confirmation of her visa waiver to enter the country, and a copy of her return ticket back to Berlin Sounds like all her paper work was good to go... > she was still pulled aside for a secondary inspection by a US Customs and Border Protection agent. Ok, that sucks but not too crazy... > Brösche said she then spent days detained in a cell at the San Diego border before…

Accused of planning to violate your visa in the future, how do you even defend yourself against that accusation? "She's thinking about doing something bad in the future"

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by ceejayoz »

twixfel wrote: post #572
Nextgrid wrote: post #341

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UK is its own kind of dump, and has the same anti-immigrant dumpster fire being stoked by the media to distract the populace while the politicians & their friends finish looting what little is left of the country. Would not recommend.

The UK has the same problems the rest of Europe has. It’s not special.

They ragequit the rest of Europe, which absolutely presents them some special problems now.

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by theshrike79 »

chimeracoder wrote: post #86
world2vec wrote: post #28

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Exactly this. If someone from "high tier" countries like Canada and Germany can get locked up in ICE jails for several weeks imagine someone like me from a peripheral European country. Even worse, my youngest brother that has a more "tanned" appearance. tattoos, and a beard. I won't be visiting the US for the foreseeable future (used to go several times per year for work), just not worth the risk.

> Exactly this. If someone from "high tier" countries like Canada and Germany can get locked up in ICE jails for several weeks imagine someone like me from a peripheral European country. Even worse, my youngest brother that has a more "tanned" appearance. tattoos, and a beard. Out of curiosity, what do you think it's like to travel to Europe as someone who is dark-skinned, has a beard, and does not have a European pa…

Europeans as general don't discriminate based on skin colour or race as much as Americans[0].

We discriminate based on what country you're from. =)

[0] I am well aware there is racism in Europe, it's just ... different here.

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by kccqzy »

ciupicri wrote: post #465
kccqzy wrote: post #296

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Trump won the popular vote unfortunately. Most of the country couldn't vote at all because they are immigrants (not citizens) or because of any of the structural reasons why they couldn't take time off to vote or they were intimated at the ballot box. Voting day still isn't a federal holiday.

Why would immigrants who are not citizens vote? Anyway, what about vote by mail? Also voting day could be changed to Sunday.

They couldn't. That's why voters don't represent "most of the country" in any way.

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by bergie »

kolektiv wrote: post #286
QuantumSeed wrote: post #39

I've cancelled my planned visits outside of the US for fear of being unwelcome and fear of difficulty getting back into the US.

Just to note that in most places at the moment (unless you turn up in that red baseball cap...) the attitude to most Americans is likely to be a kind of horrified pity (again, unless you start saying how great it all is). Most people are generally aware that Trump doesn't have universal support, and unlike your own media apparently, we do get coverage of protests and so on. Getting back into your own country though,…

In the world of sailboat cruising, a decent indicator seems to be whether the boats still fly stars-and-stripes, or have switched to a state flag.

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by realityking »

littlecranky67 wrote: post #580
realityking wrote: post #309

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Fabian Schmidt holds a green card and was detained at Boston Logan airport and held for over two weeks: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna196714 (It’s not clear to me if he has been released. The last media reports are from two weeks ago)

He failed to show up to a hearing about his green card. Not saying his treatment is warranted, but all those cases had at least some kind of merrit where an ICE agent might become suspicious. It is not as random tourists getting detained. "Schmidt’s green card was allegedly tagged for him failing to attend a hearing because the invitation was sent to his old address, according to the family’s fundraiser to cover Schm…

Good context. But mistakes happen but the response seems widely out of proportion.

A system that demands absolute perfection from me is still not one I’d want to encounter.

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by twixfel »

ceejayoz wrote: post #585
twixfel wrote: post #572

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The UK has the same problems the rest of Europe has. It’s not special.

They ragequit the rest of Europe, which absolutely presents them some special problems now.

It has the same problems of having an ageing population as the rest of Europe. Brexit is bad but relatively small in comparison to the demographic challenges. I live in Germany and it's in a sorry state too, because there are so many old people.
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