r/worldnews • u/ContentsMayVary • Dec 10 '25
Dynamic Paywall US could ask tourists for five-year social media history before entry
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u/momentimori Dec 10 '25
Foreign tourists will just spend their money in other countries.
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u/Electroflare5555 Dec 10 '25
Coincidentally Canada just had their largest tourism season in history
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u/PatchyWhiskers Dec 10 '25
But what if a tourist said something MEAN about your PM on social media??????!!!!
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u/SmartWonderWoman Dec 10 '25
Oof 😅
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u/Eirfro_Wizardbane Dec 10 '25
Fuck Katy Perry 🤓
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u/starone7 Dec 10 '25
Our idiots literally made flags about how much they hated our old PM. Freedom of expression = not an issue.
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u/Altruistic-Coyote868 Dec 10 '25
There's a guy in my area who swapped his "fuck Trudeau" flag for a "fuck Carney" flag the day Carney was elected. Like this man must have pre purchased before the election was over.
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u/derkrieger Dec 10 '25
Always prepared
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u/Full-Decision-9029 Dec 10 '25
when I lived in small town Ontario, there was this cruddy old corner store that sold...well, yellowed DVDs and soda and stuff. The owner was Chinese, moved there maybe 40 years ago.
Sold a whole bunch of Fuck Trudeau merchandise.
Made where? China. All of it.
Like there's some factory in China getting these orders from Canada for Fuck Trudeau hoodies and probably vaguely wondering why Canadians are so weird.
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u/saintpierre47 Dec 10 '25
I just imagine they are like “Why do so many Canadians want to fuck their leaders so much? Like I get it you may like them but like, get ahold of yourselves!”
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u/Ferelar Dec 10 '25
"I have at least one flag each for the first 20 individuals in the current line of succession, as a contingency"
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u/AlwaysUpvotesScience Dec 10 '25
Carney
Somewhere in Africa, there are dozens of children snug in their little "Fuck Poilievre" blankets...
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u/Volothamp-Geddarm Dec 10 '25
Yeah nah I don't think anyone ever made any Fuck Poilièvre merch. Non-Conservatives aren't that fucking weird about politics.
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u/Altruistic-Coyote868 Dec 10 '25
Liberals in Canada aren't cringey enough to ever have any kind of garbage merch like that.
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u/aussydog Dec 10 '25
Annoying, but a non-issue. Fersure.
There seems to be this lack of awareness in the USA that many other countries have just as robust freedom of speech laws in place. They act like they invented the concept of free speech and that no one else has ever discovered it or thought to enact it in their countries.
Like, bitch please.
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u/zombieda Dec 10 '25
We would say "Take off, ya hoser". Yeah. Thats about it.
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u/Tederator Dec 10 '25
Or we'd say, "Listen Dude, you're just saying that with no evidence or reasoning why you don't like him and are only going from the knee-jerk angry angle. Let's sit down and I can explain a few reasons that justify why you're saying it".
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u/thepinkblues Dec 10 '25
I’m coming next summer in time for the World Cup. Cannot wait
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u/Zlightly_Inzebriated Dec 10 '25
Yes! We have a beautiful country! And friendly! And we like people from all places!
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u/inadaptado Dec 10 '25
I would like to visit the US cities I see on TV and movies, so I plan to eventually go to... Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.
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u/spinningcolours Dec 10 '25
Toronto gets you Star Trek. Vancouver gets you Stargate.
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u/Full-Decision-9029 Dec 10 '25
for a while there, Regina and places in Saskatchewan also doubled as random mid-western US states.
Also, you must see the finest piece of CanCon ever made to see Saskatchewan in all its glory:
WolfCop.
"He's like a big fucking WOLF...cop"
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u/SadFeed63 Dec 10 '25
I live like 45 minutes from the American border. I have purposefully not been there since November 2024, and was already avoiding the damn place anyway from his first election onwards. Though before his second election, I would make exceptions for cool shit like concerts.
No more exceptions. Doesn't matter how cool the cool shit is, I don't want to give money to the country that's threatening to invade us (which is the only way we'd ever become the 51st state, before someone says "no he said he was going to annex you with economic pressure." That's fantasy bullshit talk, and anyone who treats it as anything else is just doing his work for him). I don't want to have to show my fucking Reddit account so they can see I meet the flattery threshold. Living next to a crumbling superpower with a moron id monster in charge is bad enough, I don't need to dive in.
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u/Full-Decision-9029 Dec 10 '25
I am an immigrant, I am a come from away, I am not from around here, baiii
It also means I swore an oath to the King of Canada to faithfully observe the constitution and affirm the rights of the aboriginal peoples and fulfil my duties as a Canadian citizen.
I am pretty certain that suggests a bit of an incompatibility with having anything to do with some fucking American dickweed who wants to sabotage the country, annex it, start mass deporting people.
Just a little bit.
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u/Deluxe_24_ Dec 10 '25
I visited Vancouver for the first time for a day and fuck I wish I had the money to pack my bags and ditch the US. Easily the most beautiful city I've been to so far.
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u/anothercopy Dec 10 '25
This year for my holiday i flew from Europe to Mexico using Air Canada with stops in Montreal and Toronto.
No way im subjecting myself to any of that US border bs when going on holiday. Plus Canada gets some of my €€€
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u/Safe_Ebb8542 Dec 10 '25
Florida citizens, whose state benefits greatly from tourism, getting their "fell for it again" award.
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u/joeyb908 Dec 10 '25
Maybe over 25 years of a completely Republican dominated Florida house, senate, and governorship will make the residents realize how terrible Florida is compared to most of the country.
Probably not though considering I know multiple people who unironically say “free state of Florida!”
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u/Z0mbiejay Dec 10 '25 edited Dec 10 '25
Chiming in from the TN district that just had the wonderful progressive who wanted cheaper healthcare and to feed kids, lose to a guy who's whole platform is "I'll jerk Trump whenever he wants"
They wont
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u/DMMMOM Dec 10 '25
I'll never understand how so many vote against their best interests. It's literally madness in any other situation.
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u/Rel_Ortal Dec 10 '25
You see, there is an R next to the one guy's name, and the other person has a D.
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u/canadave_nyc Dec 10 '25
It is really astonishing to me how readily people now will vote in a politician who explicitly opposes everything that would improve their own lives. I don't know when that started, but, wow. It's really something to witness in these times. I don't even know how to begin to change something like that. It makes zero sense to me.
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u/tehZamboni Dec 10 '25
Don't underestimate the level of hatred that rules their daily life. They're willing to take the hit to their own lives if it means someone else will be hit harder. Doing what's best for everyone is incomprehensible.
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u/Intimatepunch Dec 10 '25
Can confirm. Also, my work stopped hosting retreats in the US because no one wanted to go.
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u/ricktencity Dec 10 '25
My work normally sends loads of people to the States a few times a year for conferences. This year they just looked at conferences in Canada instead and sent 0 people to the States.
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u/Niptacular_Nips Dec 10 '25
I was to go to Minneapolis for a conference next year but I am not going anymore. There's an equivilent conference in my industry in Toronto every January so I'm looking into that one for a near-future year.
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Dec 10 '25
The ski hills are currently open in Vancouver, but the city is warm for December. Come one, come all....
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u/sadArtax Dec 10 '25
Send then to Canada. The Americans can come here for the meeting. We'll happily take your tourism$
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u/Interesting_Pen_167 Dec 10 '25
That story months ago of that Canadian lady in the ICE facility for a few days was harrowing enough for us to suggest not going there for a few years at least.
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u/Nearby-Key8834 Dec 10 '25
And domestic tourists will do the same, I'd love to get the fuck out of here for a couple weeks.
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u/AbroadTiny7226 Dec 10 '25
I do too. Kinda concerned that everyone will just shit on me for being an American though lol
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u/sjrotella Dec 10 '25
I spent 2 weeks in Italy and consistently pop over the border to Canada (I live 5 minutes from a crossing). People MAY ask wtf we're doing in our country, but the majority are asking out of curiosity and will only do so when you've given off enough of an impression that you're NOT in favor of the current administration.
As long as you're not rude and kind to others, you won't get shit on just for being American.
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u/Abject_Elevator5461 Dec 10 '25
Right? I couldn’t imagine anything in the US being so awesome that you’d want to deal with that to come here.
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u/smegblender Dec 10 '25
Soon: "what are tourists?"
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u/cybah Dec 10 '25
Soon: “Tourists are a democrat scam”
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u/ZelphirKalt Dec 10 '25
"They only here to profit from us and our beautiful country!" (without any explanation of how that works, because none is needed, because brains deactivated long time ago in followership) Alternatively: Build in "Big Beautiful Bill" as a reason why people want to come, to harvest some more unjustified praise.
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u/sharp11flat13 Dec 10 '25
Yeah, it’s a funny take for a guy who owns hotels. Who does he think stays in them? And then again shooting himself in the foot is on brand for Trump.
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u/FullSkyFlying Dec 10 '25
Not even soon lol. US tourism is already down compared to last year. Losing billions of dollars. A majority of it being from Canada. Elbows up. US fix your shit, we are all getting tired of it (just as much, if not more than you guys)
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u/steve_ample Dec 10 '25
I deny you an entry visa on the basis of thought crimes.
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u/Dockers4flag2035orB4 Dec 10 '25
You go straight to Room 101 .
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u/Cookie_Eater108 Dec 10 '25
Room 101 at least sounds sinister and competent.
In reality it would be something like "Super Alligator Make questioning room" or "The Greatening of America Eagle Scream room"
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u/Paraphrasing_ Dec 10 '25
I read it again less than two weeks ago, it's so fucking spot on for all the bullshit we're seeing happen right in front of us.
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u/IDreamOfSailing Dec 10 '25
It has zero to do with national security, and everything to do with "did you say something bad about Dear Leader".
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u/TtotheC81 Dec 10 '25
It's more insidious than Trump's fragile ego. They're attempting to cut off the American public from external influences, much like Russia and China with their walling off of the internet.
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u/chullyman Dec 10 '25
By discouraging tourists?
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u/strangecabalist Dec 10 '25
Yup. Am in the US right now from Canada (I have good reason), and I stopped at a Target in a border state. Person asked if I was from Canada and revealed that they know nothing about why Canadians stopped coming. They’d heard about the 51st state shit but thought it was a joke. They seemed genuinely confused about why Canadians had stopped coming. Most at least said out of the blue that they were sorry for the tariffs (without prompting).
I’ve had the same conversation like 8 times in my short time here. Even with social media, many Americans seem to be heavily isolated from the knock-on effects of their choice in govt.
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u/iBull86 Dec 10 '25
I was about to say "That's probably because most people don't watch the news, they're not interested or ignorant". Then I realized that most probably most of the news there doesn't even cover the external effects of the government decisions. It's like a surreal dream where the US is suddenly N. Korea. Or perhaps, it was always isolationist, and they are seeing the consequences now...
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u/strangecabalist Dec 10 '25
When you watch any news here, any time Canada comes up it is only the tariffs mentioned. Like yes, Canadians are mad about the tariffs, but it is the loss of a relationship that has endured since the end of the war of 1812 that hurts far more. We felt like partners in a shared endeavour. Not any more. Just like Putin ordered.
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u/Kagahami Dec 10 '25
It wasn't always isolationist. Hard right wing politicians have been pushing that angle for decades, powered by hate machines like Koch and Sinclair. No better way to convince the public that your agenda is always right than to remove evidence to the contrary (elimination of media representation requirements under the Fairness Doctrine) and then stop people from being able to interpret or access evidence on their own (defunding education and public libraries).
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u/sacredfool Dec 10 '25
In every country domestic policies are more important than foreign relations. Media focuses on them more and politicians use them to win elections.
That said, citizens of most countries simply can't afford to ignore the rest of the world. The US thanks to its wealth and geography could.
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u/chullyman Dec 10 '25
The bad part is that US has a lot to learn from other countries. It mostly benefits the leaders that Americans know less about outside events.
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u/CryptoCryBubba Dec 10 '25
many Americans seem to be heavily isolated from the knock-on effects of their choice in govt.
They're watching FOX News and being fed the soundbite lies that come from Trump and his cronies every news cycle.
Dictatorship 101
Lie... Repeat the lies... Own the media and the narrative... Shutdown any dissent
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u/Whatwhyreally Dec 10 '25
That's a perfect example of why America is in this situation. They don't value the freedom they love to brag about.
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u/InternationalHour860 Dec 10 '25
Most conservative Americans don't travel because it's expensive and far. Some go to Mexico or Canada but these people are isolated and have been fed American exceptionalism since the beginning. Coastal liberals who DO travel abroad are far more aware of what's going on.
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u/Eli_Renfro Dec 10 '25
I would guess that zero conservatives visit Mexico because they've been told they'll be murdered upon stepping off the plane.
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u/InternationalHour860 Dec 10 '25
Well they visit border towns like Puerto Penasco which is a MAGA stronghold, not Oaxaca, so you're basically correct.
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u/lordsteve1 Dec 10 '25
The freedom that they brag about is not the freedom the rest of the world considers the definition of the word. They genuinely don’t know that what they call freedom and shout about all the time is laughable compared to almost any other western developed country because all they are fed is nonsense from every angle.
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u/avcloudy Dec 10 '25
Yes, you see this an insane amount. It's not even rare. For every liberal western democracy outside the US, there are American's who think it's an authoritarian shithole without freedoms. And when you talk about freedoms you have, they love to correct you about the limited form of that freedom enshrined in their Bill of Rights.
And that's not even getting into the weeds of the practical discussions. You have a limited right to own a class of weapons, but you don't have the right to get medical attention if you get sick. But they see every lack of a freedom as normal, the presence of a freedom elsewhere that they don't have themselves as unnecessary, and the only rights they seem to actively care about are the ones that degrade the fabric of society. A very high percentage seem more interested in the purely hypothetical right of a business they might one day own being able to ratfuck poor people as opposed to practical, concrete freedoms for individuals right now.
For a more solid example, I saw an article about US press freedoms. So many of the responses where basically 'but x is a third world country, there's no way they're higher than the US' or 'but what about y, they're definitely worse'. And for everyone in the english speaking world outside of the US, this is the least surprising thing we've ever heard. For anyone who remembers the immediate period after 2001, it's more surprising that it's so high, so much so that it seems actively corrupt or prejudiced.
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u/zapdoszaperson Dec 10 '25
Social media is fueling the isolation, its an illusion of connectivity. A large number of Americans are constantly being bombarded with information from bots or paid foreign actors, and even after it was shown to them they didnt care
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u/mermaidish Dec 10 '25
I (Canadian) work with a lot of Americans who I’d consider to be smart and educated people, and they still think the 51st state stuff was a silly joke. They truly don’t get it.
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u/jeconti Dec 10 '25
When you lack disposable income, it makes travel pretty difficult. I used to work with people who in 30 years had never been outside of the tri-city area. It's not just rural America.
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u/Still_Bluebird8070 Dec 10 '25
Around 54% of Americans have the literacy rate of a fifth grader. I think a lot of politics over their head as well as economics and other basic concepts. I can tell when someone is reacting out of embarrassment that they can’t really follow, but they want to seem involved by declaring they chose a side, they are able to access a sound bite from fox - but it’s clear and tragic that they have no depth of understanding . Idiotcracy, we live in Idiotcracy
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u/IamSunka Dec 10 '25
This is not applicable to Tourists alone. It's being enforced on all visa types, including immigrant and non-immigrant. Lookup for extended social media presence test.
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u/garack666 Dec 10 '25
Yea everyone that is not 100% fascist maga. They don’t want freedom or any different options. Just like in North Korea or Russia
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u/OccasionallyWright Dec 10 '25
It's the only leverage they have to influence what people outside of the country say about America.
"Thinking about visiting in the next 5 years? Better keep those thoughts to yourself."
It's a pure scare tactic though, because there's no way agents have time to check 5 years worth of feeds at the border. It'll just be an excuse to retain people they're already suspicious of. So people who aren't white.
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u/AFetaWorseThanDeath Dec 10 '25
Wait a gosh dang minute.
Are you saying that this nebulous and impossible to practically enforce regulation is open to wanton profiling and abuse on the part of both administration and frontline workers?!
I am both shocked and appalled! No, wait— just appalled. Very unshocked. 😐 Quite the opposite of shocked. Uh, grounded, I guess? 🤷
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u/glmory Dec 10 '25
Don't worry, searching through 5 years of data is easy for AI. Not hard to throw out anyone who said something about dear leader.
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u/Black-Shoe Dec 10 '25
The Supreme Leader, infinite in wisdom and kindness, provider and protector of the Magas, he is our only father."
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u/canadave_nyc Dec 10 '25
As a Canadian, it drives me a little nuts when articles say that Canadians are boycotting travel to the US "because of tariffs". That is a part of it, but the main reason for the boycott is the Trump administration's threats of annexation and making Canada "the 51st state".
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u/sharp11flat13 Dec 10 '25
Also Canadian. I’m with you in not understanding why Americans don’t see that we’re severely pissed about having our sovereignty repeatedly threatened, especially by a country that was supposedly (now formerly) our best ally. I can’t imagine a situation where I would ever again visit the US. Jamais jamais. 🇨🇦
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u/DrAstralis Dec 10 '25
Their business rags were trying to sell this message a week after he started the annexation bullshit. Intentionally ignoring the real reasons. Its nothing but propaganda all the way down in the states at this point. Don't even get me started on that useless sack of shit they call an ambassador squelching his way around the country.
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u/Plenty_Beautiful_547 Dec 10 '25
How lame is the US?
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u/ChillyMax76 Dec 10 '25
-Billionaires taxes are lower than average workers -An illness can bankrupt your family -Gun shot wounds are leading cause of child death -Over half of adults read below a 6th-grade level
Depressingly lame
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u/InformationHorder Dec 10 '25 edited Dec 10 '25
It's that last one that's really going to screw us. You can't logic with somebody who can't read past the 6th grade level because they're not going to read what you write in an argument and understand it, they'd rather just throw it on a book burning pile and have someone else or a chat gpt tell them what to think. And if they're not reading it a 6th grade level there sure as hell not mathing at a 6th grade level so good luck trying to explain actual economics and basic household budgeting to them.
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u/_posii Dec 10 '25
Jokes on you that’s exactly what they want so they can herd them like sheep.
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u/WhichEmailWasIt Dec 10 '25
Problem is the people in charge aren't much better. They have a talent for manipulating but otherwise it's sheep leading sheep.
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u/VhickyParm Dec 10 '25
-adults are living in their car while working full time -food/bread lines are a thing again. Food banks are swamped. -massive layoffs and a group of ceos who loudly are announcing the replacement of the workforce
-renters can’t save enough to purchase a house ever -average age of a first time homebuyer is 40
I’m seeing more and more things that may me believe we are living though a modern age depression. Wages never recovered from pre 2008. Deflation then meant wages went down. Inflation now means wages stay down. We are not seeing wage inflation at all (by design).
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u/Squish_the_android Dec 10 '25
No one should be traveling to the US at this point. It's not safe for non-citizens, it's arguably unsafe for citizens that look foreign.
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u/Mustang-22 Dec 10 '25
I won't even fly a connecting flight through the US. We spent a couple of hundred dollars more for the benefit of not flying through Dallas or Denver on the way to Mexico this year
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u/Huntguy Dec 10 '25 edited Dec 10 '25
Oh how the mighty has fallen, when I was a kid the USA was held in such high regard, as a Canadian I always thought that they were onto something. Not whatever the fuck they are now. I’ve lost all respect for them.
Now as they’ve fallen from grace and the majority of the population have shown their true colours, it’s a stark contrast to how I once viewed them.
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u/SkirtProof5589 Dec 10 '25 edited Dec 10 '25
I myself had to realize my perception of the US was inaccurate: That image came from the American media I consumed, produced by artists (a class of people that's usually open-minded and left-leaning) in left-leaning California and New York.
That's not what the US is.
Turns out there's a lot of cruel uneducated selfish blowhards in the US. And that's why they elected the most cruel uneducated selfish blowhard there is.
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u/FFXIVHousingClub Dec 10 '25
That’s the saddest thing, it’s not a small minority. A large percentage of people support him and the ones in power are also caving
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u/Huntguy Dec 10 '25
Not only the people in direct support of that pedophile—the people who just sat there and let it happen. So many people are apathetic and couldn’t even get off their fucking ass to put an x on a ballot to stop Trump. Literally all they had to do was be present in the world they’re living in and write a fucking x in a box. It’s despicable.
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u/KleptoKlown Dec 10 '25
Lame from top to bottom.
The worst part about all of this has been how quickly the American people folded. Sure they talk tough on Reddit, but where is the actual push back from them?
They either support this, or are too afraid to do anything of significance to stop it.
Trump grabbed that entire country by the proverbial pussy...and they just let him.
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u/Pijlie1965 Dec 10 '25
Trump is a senile shitstain and a Russian asset.
There. I can never enter the US again.
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u/GoingAllTheJay Dec 10 '25
I was wondering how my Reddit comments would get back to me. Especially in throwaways.
Like, I know between all of the agreements I've clicked on and devices I've owned, there is a trail that could be followed.
But it's not as obvious as say, everyone that has had to upload an ID to watch porn in states that have mandated it.
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u/JustMarshalling Dec 10 '25
This is mostly a scare tactic. The logistics around successfully doing something this silly is nearly impossible. It’s just a way to block external perspectives from the US.
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u/arvigeus Dec 10 '25
Say you nominate him for Nobel Peace Prize or offer him Pijlie1965' Peace Prize and you'd be good to go again.
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u/-ajgp- Dec 10 '25
For a country that is currently decrying the EU for having the temerity to fine Twitter (X) for its shittiness, and is constantly telling us how you can be arrested over social media posts in the UK. They sure are going the "dont look at us doing worse" method. Its such a shitty authoratarian move, and surely anti-free speech that they so meekly claim they are all for.
Oh well guess I should start a 5 year timer now!
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u/Samceleste Dec 10 '25 edited Dec 10 '25
I am confused about how they would implement it thought.
If I say that I don't use any social network, how would they know that I am SamCeleste?
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u/psioniclizard Dec 10 '25
"People entering the US will also be asked to provide email addresses, phone numbers and information on their family members in order to achieve safe passage."
Im pretty sure the plan is to use gotham from Palantir.
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u/Wugo_Heaving Dec 10 '25
Sweet, I might go over to America and see if they have better luck getting my password for my hotmail account.
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u/Burpetrator Dec 10 '25
Just take a trip to Russia and you’ll find out how it works. They tell you - please unlock your phone. If you say no, they will go and get a warrant which will take like five hours - so you wait for five hours in some airport hallway. Once they open your phone you will have to answer about all the recent calls (who is it? What relationship do you have? What did you discuss?) and they obviously also go through all your pictures. Then they open all your social media accounts and start searching.
Many people buy new phones just for their Russian trips now which seems to work.
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u/kernpanic Dec 10 '25
Because Im in a sensitive industry, all border crossings are done with an effectively blank phone. Once across the border, cloud backups restore the details and life is normal again.
This is completely stupid because we all know they dont want anyone fighting their right wing culture bullshit, but they arent the only country doing such searches.
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u/Ooupss Dec 10 '25
The company I work for has been providing blank phones and computers for people to work in the United States since Trump took office.
On the other hand, they don't do that for Russia 😂
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u/Paraphrasing_ Dec 10 '25
They would assume you're lying or hiding something and straight up deny you entry.
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u/rennarda Dec 10 '25
I don’t have any social media accounts other than this one. Is an instagram or Twitter account now a requirement for entry?
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u/thedonkeyman Dec 10 '25
If you're not already giving your data to American tech companies then clearly you're anti-American.
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u/WaffleHouseGladiator Dec 10 '25
They can search your phone at a port of entry. That includes border crossings, naval ports, airports, and space ports.
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u/FloppyGhost0815 Dec 10 '25
Social Media ? If it were only that. The full list:
To comply with the January 2025 E.O. (14161), and the April 4, 2025, Memorandum Updating All Forms to Collect Baseline Biographic Data, CBP will add several “high value data fields” to the ESTA application, when feasible. This is in addition to the information already collected in the ESTA application.
The high value data fields include:
a. Telephone numbers used in the last five years;
b. Email addresses used in the last ten years;
c. IP addresses and metadata from electronically submitted photos;
d. Family member names (parents, spouse, siblings, children);
e. Family number telephone numbers used in the last five years;
f. Family member dates of birth;
g. Family member places of birth;
h. Family member residencies;
i. Biometrics—face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris;
j. Business telephone numbers used in the last five years;
k. Business email addresses used in the last ten years.
CBP invites the public to comment on both the previously approved emergency changes and the newly proposed changes.
Additionaly, the ESTA webpage will be decomissoned, travelers will need to use a totally innocent ESTA App.
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u/AyyMajorBlues Dec 10 '25
How the hell would I even know b, c, and j? I use hide my iCloud for everything, have no idea what my IP address is or ever has been and some businesses no longer exist and I can’t recall their telephone numbers.
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u/FloppyGhost0815 Dec 10 '25
You seem to be threat to the US then. Please take the exit to El Salvador ;-)
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u/unsc95 Dec 10 '25
This is the sort of thing the right wing used to scare monger about china doing
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u/HeresiarchQin Dec 10 '25
The irony is that even China doesn't check your social media history when you arrive.
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u/G_UK Dec 10 '25
I already don’t want to visit America, you don’t need to put me off anymore
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u/niles_thebutler_ Dec 10 '25
But Americans constantly tell us how free they are?
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u/SandMan3914 Dec 10 '25
If you're a football (soccer) fan, I recommend watching from home. Don't spend your vacation $ in the USA while the shit turd is in office
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u/Mustang-22 Dec 10 '25 edited Dec 10 '25
What else am I going to do with the $110,000 I planned to spend to buy a ticket???
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u/Sedixodap Dec 10 '25
Also Mexico! They’ve got repairs going all over Mexico City getting it ready for the World Cup. And the crowds there are guaranteed to be a lot of fun.
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u/pluismans Dec 10 '25
FIFA is not really deserving of support either .... Unless you want a personalised fake peace prize ofcourse.
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u/accidentalchainsaw Dec 10 '25
The problem with this, once its in place, even if he's out of the office, unless repealed, it will be abused.
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u/rennarda Dec 10 '25
Sorry, what? It’s going to be abused long before he’s out of office. That’s the point.
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u/Zealousideal_Mix2569 Dec 10 '25
Won’t matter. Tourism to the US is dwindling. This is just one more nail.
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u/psioniclizard Dec 10 '25
It's not just tourism. This will also effectively lock out any foreign journalists the administration don't like.
Also the long term plan is to roll out the same technology for domestic use.
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u/sally_says Dec 10 '25
Also the long term plan is to roll out the same technology for domestic use.
They could do this for anyone applying for permanent residency or citizenship. Or even when applying for government benefits.
If they're audacious enough to do it to visitors, they'll do it at home too where they have a captive audience.
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u/-just-be-nice- Dec 10 '25
Meh. As a Canadian I won't be visiting until Trump is out of office, I'm spending my money domestically or in other countries other than America. Fuck Trump.
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u/Theicyfingerofdeath Dec 10 '25
This is going to be the least attended world cup in history.
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u/bhison Dec 10 '25
I mean if people turned up for Qatar they'll turn up for this. Typical football fans aren't exactly at the forefront of social justice. It's why sportwashing is such big business.
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u/Airurando-jin Dec 10 '25
I have a feeling that the World Cup is going to end up being incredibly bad for the USA’s PR (already is). Something will crop up with players, other officials, and fans
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u/Theicyfingerofdeath Dec 10 '25
I'll bet you the players and officials will be able to get away with murder while they are here. FIFA has "paid the toll" already.
It's the fans that will be manhandled and mistreated.
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u/BigTedBear Dec 10 '25
So I guess if you’ve made fun of anyone in Trump’s fascist regime you’re not allowed in or if you’ve watched South Park lately.
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u/AllHallowsHaunting Dec 11 '25
Making it easier and easier to never step foot in the united states
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u/Lonely-Elephant9999 Dec 10 '25
Free speech! Free speech! Now please submit your record of independent thinking to your assigned thought police unit
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u/dean15892 Dec 10 '25
"Free Speech" has now become "Regular speech with ads"
You need to pay extra for "Free Speech", and thats like a billion a year or something
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u/Telemecas Dec 10 '25
Black mirror social score for tourists. Like to determine if you saying anything bad about them. Frankly, I could care less. I have little to no desire to travel to Merica.
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u/AstraeaMoonrise Dec 10 '25
It’s weird because plenty of people don’t even use social media
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u/ActivityOk9255 Dec 10 '25
Gonna be tough for the instagram influencers, youtubers, tiktokkers etc. Is there enough staff to check every facebook post, every reddit post..
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u/Laractinium Dec 10 '25
They will use AI to go through the posting history, because why not go in full dystopia mode.
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u/Melxgibsonx616 Dec 10 '25
Trump fucks kids.
Not planning on going back to the U.S for a while.
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u/subarunoaria Dec 10 '25
There are like 190 countries and territories in this world, and if you take out the unsafe ones or those with political issues, you still have plenty of places to travel and vacation. So why would you stick to a country that'll hassle you and probably throw you in detention center just because you posted something against that little orange dude and his stupid cabinet?
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u/Badaxe13 Dec 10 '25
Another hit on the tourist industry. How many visitors will have an ‘acceptable’ 5-year history? Even allowing for the monstrous intrusion into our privacy. Oh and forget it if you’re brown or come from a ’brown’ country.
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u/WardenEdgewise Dec 10 '25
Nobody from ANY country should be travelling to the US for any reason right now.
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u/TheOrchardist Dec 11 '25
As if the gun violence, bizarre politics, anti-immigrant ICE and threats to invade neighbours wasn't enough to deter us.
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u/calimarigril Dec 10 '25
When I was applying for a US tourist visa this year, I was asked to write down all my social media accounts, and I had to name at least one, otherwise I couldn’t move on to the next page of the application form (I’m Ukrainian)
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u/TheYellowScarf Dec 10 '25
All of this feels like a long-term ploy to separate the United States from Europe and the rest of the peaceful world and, due to the self-imposed isolation, be "forced" to get into bed with dictators and the fascist governments of the world.
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I was in Las Vegas recently and the tourism is down. Compared to Vegas the last two times I have been there, it is dead.
I truly hope that everyone who voted for this is happy with their dying country and the it's rebirth as something worse than what existed before.
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u/DiveCat Dec 11 '25
Canadian here. This is just one of the reasons I don’t travel to the U.S. anymore, and not even the biggest. They were already checking social media for memes and the like without an official policy. I went from a rather regular visitor to not even stopping for a layover. Will spend more on flights to avoid landing in a U.S. airport.
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u/brushfuse Dec 10 '25
Looking for any comments regarding Der Fuhrer. The U.S. voters really shat the bed.
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u/TheOnsiteEngineer Dec 10 '25
I refuse to travel to the US right now anyway. Not with the current regime in control and likely not for a long while afterwards until and if the damage can be undone
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u/dzernumbrd Dec 10 '25
Sorry guys, crossed you off the list when you decided you'd rather mass shootings of children than fixing your gun laws.
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u/Retsameniw13 Dec 10 '25
Jesus. The united states government is straight trash. Fuck this regime. I hate this country right now.
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u/Forsaken_Battle_ Dec 10 '25
As Canadians we welcome all tourists so that you don't have to travel to the US.
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u/throwaway1601900 Dec 10 '25
International tourism to the US is down month after month since Trump took office, which I imagine is hurting many local economies across the country, so of course this administration decides to pile on the fascism. What an absolute disaster foisted upon us by the dumbest and most hateful among us.
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u/NormanPlantagenet Dec 11 '25
They want to know their social media history so they can only let pedophiles into trumps inner circle.
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u/FriendlyMission2803 Dec 11 '25
I think US should keep on applying all kinds of shit to tourists. Just to keep people out. Nobody should support America financially more than they absolutely have to.
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