▲ 763 ▼ ‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks (www.theguardian.com) submitted 6 months ago by NomNom@feddit.uk to c/world@lemmy.world 63 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago* (1 child) Holy shit we have it at level 1. https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/americas/united-states-america The UK is level 2. https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/europe/united-kingdom permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 59 points 6 months ago (1 child) That's gotta be a joke right? The US Government is quite literally sending bloodthirsty hounds against their own people, and dragging innocent tourists off to detention centres for no reason, yet the UK is rated worse due to the couple of terror attacks we've had over the last year?? I think I know where I'd rather take my chances as a tourist. Yikes. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] hector@lemmy.today 20 points 6 months ago (2 children) The UK is speedrunning the US to fascism, and they are ahead, even if they don't have a blowhard running the show, just a traitorous mealy mouthed tool of the oligarchy. Cancelling the magna carta, the right to protest, defenses to decades in prison for protesting, bad faith terror designations by their corrupts lawmakers, a masterbaitorbase, age controls, the last two of which to give Thiel access to everything to make secret social scores to use against the population. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] npcknapsack@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago Remember when everyone was up in arms against China for their social credit score? I guess it's fine as long as it's administered by a billionaire. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Sundiata@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago and now they plan on making vpn use illegal without doxxing the user prior to internet use. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 59 points 6 months ago (1 child) That's gotta be a joke right? The US Government is quite literally sending bloodthirsty hounds against their own people, and dragging innocent tourists off to detention centres for no reason, yet the UK is rated worse due to the couple of terror attacks we've had over the last year?? I think I know where I'd rather take my chances as a tourist. Yikes. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] hector@lemmy.today 20 points 6 months ago (2 children) The UK is speedrunning the US to fascism, and they are ahead, even if they don't have a blowhard running the show, just a traitorous mealy mouthed tool of the oligarchy. Cancelling the magna carta, the right to protest, defenses to decades in prison for protesting, bad faith terror designations by their corrupts lawmakers, a masterbaitorbase, age controls, the last two of which to give Thiel access to everything to make secret social scores to use against the population. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] npcknapsack@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago Remember when everyone was up in arms against China for their social credit score? I guess it's fine as long as it's administered by a billionaire. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Sundiata@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago and now they plan on making vpn use illegal without doxxing the user prior to internet use. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hector@lemmy.today 20 points 6 months ago (2 children) The UK is speedrunning the US to fascism, and they are ahead, even if they don't have a blowhard running the show, just a traitorous mealy mouthed tool of the oligarchy. Cancelling the magna carta, the right to protest, defenses to decades in prison for protesting, bad faith terror designations by their corrupts lawmakers, a masterbaitorbase, age controls, the last two of which to give Thiel access to everything to make secret social scores to use against the population. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] npcknapsack@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago Remember when everyone was up in arms against China for their social credit score? I guess it's fine as long as it's administered by a billionaire. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Sundiata@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago and now they plan on making vpn use illegal without doxxing the user prior to internet use. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] npcknapsack@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago Remember when everyone was up in arms against China for their social credit score? I guess it's fine as long as it's administered by a billionaire. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Sundiata@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago and now they plan on making vpn use illegal without doxxing the user prior to internet use. permalink fedilink source parent