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> Why would anyone want to go through that on their vacation? honestly? the us is a beautiful country, with amazing people. i love visiting and love going to w
by fernandotakai 9y ago
> Why would anyone want to go through that on their vacation?
honestly? the us is a beautiful country, with amazing people. i love visiting and love going to weird towns to meet different people. (also, my sister is married to an american citizen, and i want to meet her every once in a while).
but at the same time, it's really fucking awful to be treated as a criminal every time you try to go to the country.
- brokenmachine 9y agoI'm in Australia. I like a lot of things about the US and lots of the people in/from the US as well. I went there about 15 years ago and had an awesome holiday. I would never go there now that a dangerous buffoon like Trump is in office, also for a long time now it's been known that outsiders will be treated like a criminal at the border for no reason. And I mean literally no reason because I could easily not have all my masses of terrorist information on the laptop and just download it from the terrorist servers when I get there. So there is literally zero reason to be searching my digital property, and I'm not about to take the gamble that I could be prevented entry or delayed enough to possibly cause thousands of dollars personal cost for no good reason. The security theatre is ridiculous. Outsiders are obviously not welcome so I'm not coming. There are plenty of sane countries around the world to go to, why would I go to the US? I hope the American people can find the motivation to vote and pressure their representatives to actually do something about their own freedoms. Not only border patrol but your militarised and outrageously unaccountable police force. Sorry but that's just, like, my opinion, man.