Surely nuking the entire tourism industry (again) will fix the economy!
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2025
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Especially for world cup!
They don’t want their kids exposed to different cultures. Much easier to keep people bigoted when they never meet a foreigner.
Well there are still people stupid enough to visit the Untied States now, I don't know what would have to happen to get through to them
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Because we are all required to use social media?
Not required to use, just access to all your social media. In addition, the rules want your phone history, including texts and 10 years of emails. Also remember, this (Lemmy) is considered social media. So, good luck if you have ever posted anything on a forum that a bunch of Nationalist Christians, or Nat-c's for short, don't like.
This is why you don’t use your real name online.
This is why governments are pushing age verification to track you while pretending it's to protect the children.
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And a throw away email.
Yeah how are they supposed to know this is my account? How are you even supposed to provide them with all of this info? And how are they going to review all of this data if they can even obtain it in the first place?
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No, but if you do, the (American) social media companies will tattle on you, guaranteed.
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Like printed out?
Recited from memory
All they need is your username. Palantir will do the rest.
Imagine the poor schmuck posting hundreds of tweet per day, he will print 200'000 tweets?
There's some great potential malicious compliance to be had here.
Although the best compliance is to just avoid ever going to the USA.
The good news is that pretty soon there won't be any foreign tourism to the US, so no one will have to enforce this.
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They really want to kill the tourism industry.
Tank every sector of the economy possible. Amazing.
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I don't know why anybody still chooses to go to the Untied States
So, I guess it's been foreign tourists who have been planting pipe bombs and shooting up our schools?
Exactly. That tourist may look harmless with their camera and suitcase. But there are actually pure blooded chaos agents sent to destroy our beautiful nation. -s
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People need to seriously stop coming here. Pull out any and all business you are able and cut America off. If we’re going to act like a walled garden, why support it? Help keep this cancer contained and stay the fuck away from anything America or American.
That's insane. This is insane.
"I don't use social media."
You can't prove a negative. Shift the onus back onto them. Any attempt at them trying to connect the dots should be met with "That user is not me, any similarities in their name is purely coincidental."
Create a bogus email not tied to any social media and they won't have a leg to stand on.
Not to mention how incredibly difficult that enforcing such a policy would be. Could you imagine the manpower required for people to trawl through 5 years of social media history searching for verboten political speech against Dear Leader? Wouldn't be surprised if they tried to use AI for this, since they'd have a hard time finding enough die-hard Trump loyalists to pack into the DHS to actually perform the background checks at the rate they would need to happen...
Better yet, just avoid coming to this rapidly declining country in the first place.
They'll just say you're lying, detain you, and charge you with withholding evidence.
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Just don't go there. There's no due process currently over there, at least for foreigners.
If you absolutely need, send a robot instead of yourself. Much less hassle. :)
If you don't go, don't invest over there. You won't have to submit them anything. So like North Korea, Iran or China: stay away.
People should not be coming to the US. They are likely to be chained and sent back by these fascist.
Sent back if they're lucky. Otherwise sent to concentration camps, El Salvador, or just never seen again at all.
More like chained, thrown into concentration camps, and forgotten about/ lost/ killed. Travelling to this country is an existential threat.
As if people are even planning to visit. I’m not, not even when Trump is dead.
Maybe when the union is dead, but yeah they are speed running the collapse of an empire.
none will be asked of RUSSIAN, Saudia arabia, UAE, israel no doubt.
"will have to" is such a misleading phrasing... Many of them will visit elsewhere. Fuck that shit for tourism. It's not worth it, not to see some sites.
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This is protection. Protection for a snowflake trump administration against JD Vance memes. Egos in this government are too fragile for repeated meme attacks and therefore they must be stopped at the borders at all costs. God I wish this was a joke
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Also US:
Why is our tourism dead? Why does nobody want to visit our shit hole country anymore?
The list of countries in the visa waiver program includes many European nations like the United Kingdom, Germany and France, as well as some U.S. allies around the world, including Australia, Israel, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.
Side note: interesting that European countries are not included in the list of allies.
Hahaha eat shit Dumberikkka! How’s your tourism industry doing? Bad? Not a thing of value was lost.
And the rest of us boycott in solidarity.
Can someone ELI5 why their map of visa free countries doesn't include Canada? Canada doesn't need a visa
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