Lots of other countries to explore. I'll revisit this in 4 years by then we'll also know if US democracy is still a thing
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
#222A 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.
> It's a slippery slope toward fascism. Not sure I would ever consider the GDR to have been "fascist". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany
Authoritarianism is the more appropriate term I think.
Re: Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme
#223Wonder 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...
Probably "Haha, our champion won. At least yours didn't."
Re: Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
What percentage of unnecessary and abusive jailings would you - as a rational person - consider acceptable?
(Not the person you originally replied to). Zero, but that's not the same question. If something I think is unacceptable happens at a low rate, the fact that I think it's bad doesn't mean it's necessarily rational to change one's travel plans because of it, if the rate is low enough. If I go to Iceland, there is some nonzero chance I'll be killed in a surprise volcanic eruption, but I wouldn't let that deter me from…
I was curious about how likely deaths actually are from Volcanoes in Iceland. It looks like 15 deaths in the last 500 years with an unknown number possibly in the hundreds in the 500 years before that. But also ~9000 deaths due to famine in from farmland and livestock destruction.
Re: Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme
#225The other picture showed Mads with a wooden pipe which he had made years prior
This is really why. Any evidence or suspicion of drug use or paraphenalia is a major offense. Even it they attempted to justify or explain it, its a major rejection criteria. Ive heard of several denials for suspicions of marijuana use, "DUDE WEED" memes and the like. They are really going hard on anything that looks like illicit substance use.
Re: Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I'm a man of the left who thinks cancel-culture stinks and have campaigned against it for years, including warning those on "my side" (who you wrongly call my political opponents) that one day the boot would be on the other foot.
I condemn cancel-culture full stop whether its the right-wing mcarthyism of the fifties or the leftist bullies of the last decade.
Do you?
Re: Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not when I went there. I needed a lot of paperwork for the visa at their embassy, and to surrender my passport for a few days, and a signed statement from my employer that I was not a journalist of any kind. I got in. I was sent to some form of secondary screening, but they apparently couldn't find anybody who could speak English, so they just let me in. Edit: I'm from a rich western country, in case it matters for a…
I did get a weird interaction in China fwiw. Let in fine but at one point i sat down to have lunch at a restaurant and 2 English speaking police officers sat down at my table and started asking if i was doing well etc. I just chatted making sure not to say anything negative about the government, talked about tourist sites and they left, they were fine, no issue. Just a weird interaction. I guess it's a routine part o…
Contrary to common belief, it's fine to say negative things about the government in this case, as long as you are not Chinese. They may argue with you (or laugh at you for some even weirder reasons) and you both may have an unpleasant conversation, but that's it.
Re: Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme
#228A 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.
I think East Germany was the opposite of fascism. At least compared to West Germany.
Re: Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme
#229This 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.
That is a very good point and a far more interesting one that this story is supposed to make. The matrix is here.
Re: Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme
#230Mads Mikkelsen? I'm very skeptical that this is real, and kind of disappointed that HN is being so credulous.
https://www.ssb.no/befolkning/navn/statistikk/navn says there are 12 people in Norway with that name. Here's a footballer from Tromsø with that name: https://www.til.no/nyheter/mads-med-forste-proffkontrakt . He is 17 years old, so not the 21 year old mentioned here. Here is another Mads Mikkelsen in Tromsø. https://fjellet.dk/
Huh, I didn't know SSB let you do combined first/last name searches, I assumed it would only let you search the names individually
(Is Tromsø where they keep all the spare Mads Mikkelsens??)