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[–] aldfin@lemm.ee 109 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Why travel to that shithole.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 5 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

People also travel to Pyongyang just to see just how shitty it is.

[–] Tw4tnoM0r3@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 hours ago

yeah and then they whine when they steal shit and end up in prison

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[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 75 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Travel to the US and it’s your own fault. We have been warned.

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 50 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

What the actual fuck is going on with my country?!? For fuck sake, not all of us are fascist bellends.

[–] jmantothe64@lemmy.world 37 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Things are still gonna get worse, we're not gonna get through this until their actions hurt so many people that enough of them get fed up and it leads to one of those belgrade or hungary sized protests

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 24 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

You’re talking about a country that largely lives with its head in the sand. America is notorious for avoiding the news, especially world news. The fact that any is ingested as all is likely thanks to social media. (Im talking large strokes, middle of the bell curve behaviors). As long as the family unit is ok, people generally think they’re ok, and live with blinders for anything outside of that. This life approach has existed long before Trump was even a blip in politics.

Remember, inertia is a seismic, global driving force of action for much of humanity.

I think it would likely take everyone’s personal house burning down in tandem to inspire mass action and those who still had houses would still function via the force of inertia propelling them through their daily habits, ignoring everyone else.

I say that as an American. I don’t like it, but it’s true. That and liberals a very un unified and tend not to like each other. A lot of gatekeeping takes place there rather than uniting and doing, always has. It’s a scattered, messy, un unified party.

In addition, there was another post made in response to a “do something” rant that I think sums up the other piece in play.

“I don’t know how to start a riot.”

Which is a fair point. How? Seriously. And where do you find people when your full personal circle is 2-7 individuals (if you have friends at all, it’s a major problem people seek therapy for these days). and half of the people who are friends with are either MAGA or a dissociated young man who spends all their free time behind a screen engaged in escapism.

We’re kinda screwed on the psychology side over here.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 28 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

A third of you are fascist bellends, a third are fighting against the fascist bellends .... and a third are just standing there doing nothing.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, the non-voters are fucking worse than the Trumpers in some ways.

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[–] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

No need to go to the us. Fuck that hellhole.

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[–] shirro@aussie.zone 34 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

Don't carry digital data across any border, even if encrypted. Many countries have totally different standards over search and seizure at their borders to when you have gained entry and sometimes far worse for non citizens.

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Australia has full rights to search hardware on entry. Careful coming here too.

[–] shirro@aussie.zone 14 points 14 hours ago

Exactly. Don't make assumptions just because you are travelling to a "friendly" country.

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[–] nick@midwest.social 33 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Turn off your phone before going through customs or tsa. They can’t compel you to give your password out, but biometrics don’t fall under that category.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 64 points 16 hours ago (7 children)

And they can refuse you entry if you don’t comply.

[–] nick@midwest.social 21 points 15 hours ago

Yup, that’s true.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 14 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Sleeping on an airport bench for your 2 week business trip knowing you're getting fired when you get home

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Doesnt work. They wont let you in if you dont unlock your phone. Same thing if you wipe it. They can refuse you for any reason.

[–] nick@midwest.social 7 points 12 hours ago

Well ain’t that some bull shit.

[–] nick@midwest.social 11 points 16 hours ago

For now anyway.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 25 points 14 hours ago

If you really need to go to the US - Don't bring any electronic devices with you through security or while transitioning through borders.

Leave your devices at home. Bring a single function camera with you if you want.

Once you get across the border ... buy a new or used phone. If you have friends or family waiting for you, ask them to get you a phone, maybe even an old phone or get them to buy a used phone that you can use during your stay (pay them to get it of course).

Set up your new phone - load your data through cloud based systems ... if you are organized enough, you can set up a cloud based password manager to handle all your other data services.

Then when you leave, reformat and reset your phone and either try to sell off the phone you just bought, give it away or just toss it.

Go through security again without a device.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 24 points 9 hours ago

LOL they changed the headlines to "hateful towards U.S. Policy" now? I thought it was "critical of Trump".

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 18 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

FWIW the US is claiming that the researcher had confidential information from Los Alamos National Labs against the terms of his NDA. They claim the researcher admitted to taking the information and attempting to conceal it.

I honestly hope this is the explanation. If we're starting to deny entry to the country simply due to criticisms of domestic policy decisions, we're going down yet another dark path.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 hours ago

How is that a problem when the president is out there storing confidential docs in his golf course, and when they fire off the cybersecurity teams?

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[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 hours ago

My company isn’t organizing any off-sites to the US for my remote first company anymore because of this shit lol. I think partially because nobody outside of the US would even go

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

If you bring a burner phone and they search it and see nothing on it, they'll think that suspicious too and might deny entry.

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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I thought that was basic opsec. Burner phone with a week of use, paid in cash on you. Real phone (if you need it) in a bag, battery removed and separate by any means. That's not just crossing borders, that's anything longer than a city bus.

[–] Oderus@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

What phones have removable batteries?

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Oderus@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That's funny. I'll just jump in my time machine and go back 11 years.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 12 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] sporkler@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

The most brutal correction I believe I have ever witnessed.

[–] Oderus@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] Polderviking@feddit.nl 9 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)
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[–] Nursery2787@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 hours ago

Sponsored by Home Depot

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 8 points 15 hours ago

Burner phone is the way to go, wherever you travel.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

Yup. That's a possibility. I work in security and would tell them it's just how we do things. If they send me home I will spend the week with my family instead of sitting in stupid training all week.

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