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Why I Will Never Go Back to the United States

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Re: Why I Will Never Go Back to the United States

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Post by berntb »

vasilipupkin wrote: post #64
pizza234 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, the logic goes like this: in "country X", this type of arrogant behavior is supported by the political background, while in "Sweden", there's no polical support for policeman rudeness. This is therefore a perfectly valid reason not to visit "country X".

Ok, but Sweden has its own problems, no? Didn't they have massive riots recently? So, let's rephrase country X has political support for some sort of bad thing Y, therefore I will never visit country X.

Every place has problems. E.g. Sweden is consensus oriented and has only one officially accepted opinion at a time, so much stuff just can't be discussed. This along with being a small duck pond (the elites, media etc generally know each others) means that problems might be a long time being corrected.

Re: Why I Will Never Go Back to the United States

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Post by lotsofcows »

techsupporter wrote: post #5
rheide wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe fix your country next time?

I honestly don't see what is broken here. No one has the unquestioned right to enter any country except one where they hold citizenship. This post documents one person who was turned away for what he felt was an unreasonable position but that's still up to the United States to decide. It may shock people on Hacker News to learn this, but many other countries turn people away for "frivolous" reasons or no reason at al…

Pretty ironic considering the US started producing tourism adverts. Maybe they should add a disclaimer to the bottom: only applicable to WASPs with $10k in the bank who have never left their home country before.

Re: Why I Will Never Go Back to the United States

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Post by dagw »

vasilipupkin wrote: post #64
pizza234 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, the logic goes like this: in "country X", this type of arrogant behavior is supported by the political background, while in "Sweden", there's no polical support for policeman rudeness. This is therefore a perfectly valid reason not to visit "country X".

Ok, but Sweden has its own problems, no? Didn't they have massive riots recently? So, let's rephrase country X has political support for some sort of bad thing Y, therefore I will never visit country X.

Didn't they have massive riots recently

They where "massive" by Swedish standards, but tiny by any international standard you may care to use. Certainly much much smaller than riots that have happened recently in many other European countries

Re: Why I Will Never Go Back to the United States

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Post by tphan »

cstross wrote: post #24

Interestingly, in the developed world it seems to be the Anglophone countries that have the shittiest attitude towards border control these days. The US is notoriously user-hostile at the borders. The UK is doing its best to catch up in a Mini-Me way with the USA's Dr Evil, and is actually on course to become even more hostile than the USA -- the only mitigating factor is that the third degree is reserved for non-cit…

Your Australia-related articles were posted in July. Tony Abbott didn't become Prime Minister until September.

Re: Why I Will Never Go Back to the United States

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Post by CalRobert »

davidcollantes wrote: post #78

Do, really, immigration officers ask "What the hell where you doing X?" "Aren't those countries Islamic?" There are parts on this writing that are hard to believe, like they were written to sound like a novel, but I have never been on a situation like the one described, not even close.

You clearly haven't met the more intellectually challenged of my countrymen (that's most of them, for the record)

Re: Why I Will Never Go Back to the United States

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Post by [deleted] »

vasilipupkin wrote: post #64
pizza234 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, the logic goes like this: in "country X", this type of arrogant behavior is supported by the political background, while in "Sweden", there's no polical support for policeman rudeness. This is therefore a perfectly valid reason not to visit "country X".

Ok, but Sweden has its own problems, no? Didn't they have massive riots recently? So, let's rephrase country X has political support for some sort of bad thing Y, therefore I will never visit country X.

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Re: Why I Will Never Go Back to the United States

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Post by yashodhan »

rheide wrote: post #3
yashodhan wrote: post #2

This is sad. Perhaps maybe fly in next time?

Maybe fix your country next time?

It's not my country, you assumptive douche. The author was rejected from entering the USA on arguably questionable, but still legal terms.

Based on his account, I'm forced to believe he acted appropriately, and therefore I feel bad for him, but he doesn't have a given right to enter a foreign country.

My advice remains. Custom officials in airports are much better equipped to handle foreigners. So, to hedge your safest bets for next time you go to the US, make the airport your first port of entry.

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