shipped to El Salvador.

I'm white as hell, but with the comments I make on the orange clown I'll be shot into orbit in nothing more than a speedo (only because nudity is for the us a no ! no !! no !!! no !!!! no !!!!! no way)

Checks SimpleLogin account… 230 email aliases to date… gg, I might need a few more pages to note all of those.

What if you're not a 15-year-old girl and therefore don't have TikTok and Instagram are they going to arrest you? What a truly stupid country.

I was wondering why this ‘five years’ thing popped up now, because I'm pretty sure I've heard of it long ago.

The US was known for ages to be very shady at the borders, like circa fifteen years ago when they detained a security researcher who was travelling to a conference to tell about yet another of NSA's shenanigans: they held him for hours, searched through his devices, and in the end denied entry.

Emails? Wtf?

I think that's objectively worse than North Korea, they only check what you have with you as far as I'm aware

This is a shame honestly. I've just remembered about Lucas' narrative art museum.

Turns out the guns were never about defending themselves against an authoritarian government.

literally, I let my VISA expire and it was hard because I live on the frontier so I'll miss out on a lot of things but it is not worth it

last time I needed to cross the border I was detained for an extra hour (not counting the queue) just because I didn't cross during the pandemic

fuck the US, fuck fascism

I still remember a trip I took with my parents to Vancouver and Seattle. We are from Brazil.

The difference was night and day, especially the infrastructure, landscape, and the appearance of the people who worked there. Seattle felt much more somber and gray.

The only ones who seemed overtly happy were the waitresses, but since these jobs in the U.S. rely heavily on tips, it felt more like forced role-play to get extra money compared to the more down-to-earth Canadian customer service.

Unfortunatel I feel like most people will complain about this and visit anyway. I'd be very happy to be wrong about this though.

I think maybe they're intentionally isolating themselves?

Always wanted to see a modern country becoming dystopian though. Could be a big hit on tripadvisor. Once a beacon for freedom in the western world, the US decided it really liked how North Korea is treating its people and decided to do the same using its love affair with big tech psychos like Sam Altman and Elon Musk.

Depends on the officer you're dealing with. There's multiple stories, from before Trump ever took office, of people being detained for up to a day for saying this or refusing to grant access to their phone. I can only imagine it's worse now.

You have to prove that you don't have accounts with the usual suspects. So, to prove a negative. And that obviously makes you suspicious. Oh, and Lemmy would be considered to be social media.

they really don't seem to realize there's an entire world of places out there to see...

It’s also to keep people in.

If the earning reports of hotel REITs are anything to go by that is exactly what's happening.

Make Murica Great Again or something....

People born in the 90s:

At age 10: I want to move to USA to live there!

At age 30: Traveling to USA seems to be too dangerous. I'll pass.

you know its bad when they dont report how tourism is doing in places like florida, texas. its 1-2 punch , anti-immigration policies has probably affected them severely, and the lack of tourism dollars to those welfare states.

I hate to say it but they likely won't. Establishment democrats are complicit.

Doubtful. The Democrats we have run on the platform of keep everything exactly the same. No changes, we're all good here. No notes.

It'll be "it's the economy stupid".

They're gonna Ratchet Effect the shit out this!

Sounds like taliban/fascist strategy: keep people apart and make everyone hate you so you can then claim you're embattled because everyone rejects you.

They are learning from the Saudis and UAE

World cup season

it comes with the territory. Working in U.S. tourism occaisionally means eating an inordinate amount of shit.

Well you can of course do that. Then if it discovered that you’ve lied on an entry form, you’ll be denied entry forever.

Or malicious compliance: only share porn accounts... with a wink.

What’s Lemmy?

Most maga can't afford to leave the country much less their own state.

Nah fuck that. The non-Nazis can come over, and we'll have a barbie 🇺🇸🇦🇺🦐🍻

A lot of Americans on the right famiously doesnt own a passport and doesn't leave the country. You are more or less playing into their hand..

Good idea. Let's just do what the fascists are doing. That'll show them!