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[–] 159 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Daily reminder not to travel to the US. Yes, this cartoon is satirical but its still a bad idea and do you really want to support them with your money?

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sucks it had to be like this, really wanted to visit my friends in Florida. They tried to convince me it'd be fine but damned if I'll support the US right now. Also I'm not rolling the dice on the gestapo.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What if we remove panels 2 and 3 and he just mishears her say terrorist instead of tourist

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If I wasn't already here, I would not be in a rush to book reservations.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    I think this is supposed to be exaggerated humor, bit this is literally happening.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Do you remember the american youtuber who learned how US immigration works and tried to sue them?

    https://youtu.be/uBFddeyCVok

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    panel 3 is not only superfluous but completely hurts the flow and the humor

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Which comic strip is this ?

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  • [+] -33 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Canada has been doing this for years.

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  • [+] -44 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Someone who has gone through US customs please comment if this actually happened to you. I see way too many straw man cartoons, and I hate to see a Ben Garrison of the left.

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  • [–] [S] 51 points 1 year ago

    The comic strip is satire, in response to USA border agents inspecting travelers' phones and social media when they try to enter the country. And there are in fact cases where foreign nationals were denied entry to the USA on account of their social media posts. Although it has not yet been reported that any foreign tourists have literally been deported to Libya, so yes that part of the comic strip is not literally true.

    But then again, neither is Garfield.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The sea lion's questions in that Wondermark comic were perfectly valid and a good example of what to do when someone tries to dogwhistle their bigotry and then refuses to elaborate further.

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  • I agree. I just looked through a few of their other comments and didn't observe more sea lioning. So I responded with one of the top results from a web search.

    I initially wrote out a different response, but wanted to give the benefit of the doubt here.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I gotta find the link but a woman's American-born son was detained at the airport for 8 hours and asked about his loyalty to the US because he's asian looking and was heading to some middle-eastern country or some shit. So literal citizens are being stopped and questioned.

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  • [+] -12 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • I've also been searched by guys holding AKs crossing European borders in the late 80s

    Yeah but that was before the soviet union fell and people were getting shot trying to cross over to west Berlin over the wall... It's absolutely insane that the US is now starting to be comparable to those horrifying times.

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    [–] 85 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    "I don't care if they have all my data. I don't have anything to hide"

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    But complaining that this year there is no tourism in the US

    Repeating history in a creepy way. only changing names: Miller instead Goebbels, ICE instead of SS ...

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That's not realistic. They'd never use real names like "Bobby".

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yes, it would be some tacticool edgelord callsign like "Viper" or "Terminator".

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    But I'm not running, I'm just a tourist!

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  • as an american, i fucking hate US immigration. you dont need to mansplain what "having something in my bag" means or what a "plant" is.

    i checked the box for "no"; gtfoutta here

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