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Freedom of speech with US characteristics
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this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2024
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It’s so dumb that we can’t just like… go places
Oh, no no no, you can’t cross the invisible line without your little stamperino
It's wild to think that about 100 years ago is when passports started being a thing.
Yes, but both internal and external travel restrictions are as old as the states themselves.
Ah yes, remind me what happened almost 100 years ago
Photographs and WWI, basically. It's a bit hard to identify people with just written descriptions, and the war gave a reason to discriminate against certain groups for "spying" or whatever.
What makes it even more fucked up is that in a lot of cases border control was created to turn back jewish people who were fleeing the nazis.