Don’t tourists know by now that visiting the US in 2025 is like visiting Germany in 1938?

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    Y’all are making it so easy to keep these fuckin’ elbows up.

    President Rapist, Couchfucker Veep.

    This is America. It’s pitiable.

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    It’s a movie plot but I wish somehow hackers could inject random anti Trump memes on all phones just to see what happens.

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    Remember some years ago when people were posting online like “in Russia it’s illegal to post this picture of Putin 🤣” with this pic?

    Now that’s the USA.

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    This poor guy was abused and it speaks terribly about the nature of the U.S. There are so many people willing to beat and abuse other people for no other reason than they are given a green light to do so. It’s pretty disgusting. People are afraid to voice criticism. When I criticize the U.S. it’s because I believed all of the things I was told as a kid that were only partly true, that it’s a great county. When people criticize the U.S. they are holding it to a higher standard, they want it to be better. If you can’t take criticism you’re weak and it shows you don’t want to improve or make corrections.

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    “Mads told Nordlys he tried to explain the images as being harmless and meant as jokes but the immigration authorities ignored his pleas. He claims he was then strip-searched, forced to give blood samples, a facial scan and fingerprints.”

    Blood for Memes, incredible

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    If you’re going to the US, backup your data and wipe your phone clean of everything personal. Play dumb, leave Facebook & Instagram installed etc.

    Don’t do anything remotely fancy, because these mf-ers are just entitled children with a gun, they own you.

    Or visit Europe

    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      Or visit Europe

      There are plenty of beautiful place to see and great people to meet in Europe too, and you can see and meet them all without subjecting yourself to Gestapo-style thuggery upon arrival.

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      Or come to Canada. We’re mostly nice. Ignore those bots in Albertastan

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        17 hours ago

        hmm, I was thinking about visiting Calgary this summer. What’s up with Alberta?

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          They’re trying very hard to be Texas north. The Premier of the province is ignoring science and, in many cases, logic. Anti-vax. That’s one reason they have more measles than the entire USA. There is even a fringe group that wants Alberta to secede from Canada and join the US.

          The economy is largely based on oil, so many of them deny climate change.

          Ironically, they have some of the most beautiful scenery in the country, if not the world.

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          gramie already mostly answered in line with what I’d say: there is an alt-right political shift there, where the lunatics are running the asylum and we keep expecting for sanity to re-emerge. Every country has a pocket like this somewhere. Most people in Calgary are perfectly nice, in the same way that most people in Omaha are perfectly nice, until a trans person is on TV.

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        Hoping to visit soon this summer! Not too thrilled with the idea of having to come back home, with all this going on.

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          Assuming you’re coming from the US, where are you coming from? Driving or flying? Troy’s travel tips and unsolicited advice for free, this evening only!

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            Hoping to head out to BC and maybe Alberta last, depending on the amount of time I have. I’ll be driving, I live in Montana so I’m close.

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              Aha, “just south of me”, I say from a thousand miles away.

              If you’re a mountains person, yeah BC is the place to be. But it’s also same-same as what you can see in a lot of places in the US in the mountains. Like, you won’t tell the difference between much of BC and much of Washington.

              If you’ve got the time, go straight north from your location. Way way north. Go to Yellowknife, and do it in March – it’s about three days driving. You’ll get there and they’ll have northern lights galore, ice castles on the lake, people driving their trucks on the ice to their houseboats that have just frozen into the ice for the season…

              Or go in summer and go fishing there. The lake is 600m (1900ft) deep… Trout like tuna.

              Unsolicited advice ends ;)

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        At this point absolutely! Things are only going to escalate. Especially once elections time comes around and the US citizens realize there won’t be another legitimate election.

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    As much fun as we’re having sharing and resharing this ridiculous image of a ridiculous person, this is actually a very serious problem.

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    They will not stop with tourists and immigrants. They’re preparing to crush democratic resistance.