stux⚡️Random poll:
Would you visit the US in it's current state? Either for vacation or travel. For Americans, imagine you would visit your country from somewhere else
Yes
No
I don't know
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@stux There are at least three showstopper reasons now, in the order in which they manifested themselves, any one of which would be sufficient to keep me away on its own:
(1) the guns
(2) the plague [on the plane to get there]
(3) the nazis who are now running the place
Vysogota@TimWardCam, hey don't forget the cavity search and electronic device ransacking when you land there. Which were the reasons I've never considered going there even before the current nazi leadership // @stux
@petko @stux On my one and only visit to the Lower 48 (I found Hawaii and Alaska much more friendly) the thing that put me off, immediately on arrival, was the policeman in the arrivals hall with his hand hovering over his gun. Whether he was actually dying for an excuse to shoot someone, or whether he was just shit scared of this totally harmless crowd of tourists and business travellers, I don't know. But it was by far my scariest arrival in any country. (Boston, 1980s.)
@TimWardCam @stux wow... even before 9/11????
Mike Spooner@TimWardCam @petko @stux Around the same time, UK visitors to the US were asked on the plane whether they "were or ever had been a boy scout". Even just for 6 months at age 13, was enough to be denied disembarcation.
@shelldozer what??? really? why?
@petko at the time in the US, the Boy Scouts were viewed as a communist organisation. Yes, the 80's.