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Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

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Re: Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

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Post by jasonwatkinspdx »

paxys wrote: post #8

Wonder what the "political correctness is bad" "nobody is allowed to crack jokes anymore" "cancel culture is out of control" crowd will say about this one...

Based on decades of experience with my family: it's only political correctness when other people do it. When they do it, it's just common decency, common sense, family values, etc.

And as far as the original story, individual border agents should absolutely not be doing this to people because they have a meme on their phone, doubly so one where Vance shared a version of it himself. There is straight up no justification for this.

Dark days for the values the US professes to represent.

Re: Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

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Post by throwawayq3423 »

bediger4000 wrote: post #48
paxys wrote: post #8

Wonder what the "political correctness is bad" "nobody is allowed to crack jokes anymore" "cancel culture is out of control" crowd will say about this one...

[flagged]

(it was never about free speech, it's about power and control)

Re: Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

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Post by Ar-Curunir »

mellosouls wrote: post #69
paxys wrote: post #8

Wonder what the "political correctness is bad" "nobody is allowed to crack jokes anymore" "cancel culture is out of control" crowd will say about this one...

In my case they will condemn it if it is true, while asking for more evidence than this single-source report so we can establish that is the case.

Did you hold that attitude while complaining about cancel culture? Or is asking for more evidence something that is only necessary when it happens to your political opponents?

Re: Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

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Post by SpaceL10n »

givemeethekeys wrote: post #25

This feels like a made up story just like so many other stories that get published to scare people from visiting China, India, Mexico, Columbia, etc.

Could be. The only information I can find about this is that the young man told his local newspaper what happened and then other news outlets just regurgitated the young man's account of what happened with zero fact-checking or corroborating evidence. Many people are taking one man's word as truth. I'd like more proof before coming to any conclusions.

Re: Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

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Post by lol768 »

EA-3167 wrote: post #57
Disposal8433 wrote: post #29

Going to the USA as a tourist might be the most stupid action that one can make at this time. Unless you have a dying mother or father, there is absolutely no reason to visit this country. It reminds me of the tourists that used to go to North Korea for fun some years ago, it never was a good idea.

In 2023, when tourism rates had yet to fully recover from Covid, over 66 million people visited the US from abroad. I don't have more recent statistics, but I'm going to assume that the number is the same or higher this year. Out of that population which could fill a decent-sized country, how many people have been treated so unfairly as the one in this article? How do those stats compare with other countries, and the…

> In 2023, when tourism rates had yet to fully recover from Covid, over 66 million people visited the US from abroad. I don't have more recent statistics, but I'm going to assume that the number is the same or higher this year.

World Travel & Tourism Council says international visitor spending is going to drop by $12.5bn this year (down 22.5%).

Re: Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

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Post by propagandist »

mywittyname wrote: post #3
supertrope wrote: post #2

A teacher in school told me about the time they visited East Germany. Armed guards poked though his luggage. It's a slippery slope toward fascism.

We are at the bottom of that slope and are being buried under all of the shit that's continuing to slide down it.

From slavery to the Chinese exclusion act to Jim Crow to the Japanese internment camps to the patriot act. It's hard to make the case we were anything but.

What has changed recently is technology collapsing the world into a single blob of information, and that aspect gets worse every year.

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