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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 Analemma_ »

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...

A little while ago Scott Alexander did a lengthy post about how Curtis Yarvin, aka Moldbug, has essentially backtracked on everything he ever said about tyranny and these days gleefully cheers on all the things he decried in his early writing. Yarvin's response was, essentially, "You actually believed that I believed that stuff? lmao, idiot. This was about power and now we have it, piss off." Yarvin is unusually candid compared to most commentators and so I wouldn't expect a similar response here, but that's what's happening.

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

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Post by DocTomoe »

My employer has had a "no visiting the US with your real hardware, get a burner phone / a burner laptop from our IT department" for years now. The only other countries that have that kind of rule are Myanmar and Iran.

The US is not a friendly country, not even to allies.

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

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Post by ymhr »

perihelions wrote: post #18

> "placed in a cell" I think the title is deficient and should be based on this higher-weighted fact, over the weaker phrasing "refused entry". "Tourist jailed without trial for possessing political cartoon"

Even worse, you can omit “political” meme - he may be a political figure but as far as I can tell it has no relation to any policies…it’s just a silly picture.

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

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Post by jrflowers »

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...

Probably either skepticism that it happened

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44369233

Or celebration

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44369218

The whole “political correctness is so bad that we need to elect the current regime” crew only ever really wanted to feel aligned with power and are more or less indifferent to what that power does so long as they are periodically made to feel reassured that they are on the right side of it.

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

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Post by EA-3167 »

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 inevitable abuses that occur in any vast bureaucracy?

It's possible to oppose the current US administration and still retain your rationality.

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

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Post by knorker »

nine_k wrote: post #42
knorker wrote: post #24

Earlier 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…

Did they check your social media accounts? Did these accounts contain any memes involving the current PRC administration?

I don't recall them asking for any social media at any point. But I don't have Facebook, tiktok, instagram, snapchat, grinder, myspace, or other muggle social media.

I of course wouldn't know if they tried to find my profiles.

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