It's insane to think anyone would travel to the US as a tourist, or for work.
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2026
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They think "it won't happen to us".
What if you have no social media?
I deleted it all over five years ago, Reddit almost 3 years ago.
Other than Lemmy that is. That's all I got if that counts as social media.
I feel like they wouldn't believe me though and deny me. How do you prove you don't have something?
They legitimately find lack of social media to be a red flag.
This is like a man standing inside a fire saying "you're not allowed to step in this fire with me unless you hand over your information!"
Uhh no thanks, I'll stay out of the fire. Thanks. Nice try.
Do my Lemmy posts count? If not, I don't think I have anything in the last five years on the zuckerbergs
How do you provide this? Print my thousands of posts?
give us your handles and we'll run them thru our LLMs, I'd imagine?
If your social media history doesn't block you from access to the US, what the fuck are you even playing at?
Why would you visit America right now? I live in a major tourist zone, and I'm here to ask foreign tourists to go somewhere else right now. There are lots of nice places in the world, where the government will appreciate you visiting and spending your money. America isn't one of them.
Good thing I've been avoiding the US ever since the Patriot Act.
By the way, highly recommend Canada as a vacation destination.
US could go fuck themselves. people should stay away from the fascist banana republic anyway
Banana Republic? I wasn't even aware that brand was still around but I'm really confused how that relates to anything... What did I miss? Guessing they supported Trump?
the term doesn't refer to a company in this context
it's more about Trump being a textbook Tropico dictator (Tropico is a game btw)
I had no idea there were alternate meaning. Now I'm going to have to find out if the company named itself after that, and if so why...
Got to learn something today!
Imagine going to the US
I did, and I did not like it.
What a shithole country.
I wonder what theyll do, when you legitimately dont have any social media.
They'll make you sign up for Truth Social. It also doubles as a torture method
Probably deny you entrance either way.
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¡We'll have to make one!
They're still expecting tourists to visit? How cute!
FIFA World Cup is going to be interesting
Literally Munich Olympics.
Isnt that LA in 2028?
I know of more than enough people from my closest field (work, friends and family) that are not in the slightest disencouraged from this which is a fucking mistery.
Too bad i dont have any social media, so i will probably be flagged as a terrorist.
Id also want the social media history of tourists who are crazy enough to come to the US.
Weren't they already doing this? I could have sworn some French researcher was denied entry over this months ago.
The US has the personnel to go through 5 years of every tourists personal social media history? I think fucking not.
Everyone is already in a database. NSA has scraped these sites already and tagged the data using Palantir’s tech. All they have to do is scan your passport and use your data and biometrics to pull a file up. The only thing they need is your permission to make it legal. If you want to enter you have to give permission.
Then why do they need you to submit anything?
So they can pretend that they don’t have this database already.
So they can try and catch an innocent mistake and arrest you for lying to them.
The beauty of AI.
Target an individual's account for keywords or even just vibes. See what you can fish out. Impose highly public harm to a handful of soft targets. Your people will love that.
FOX News would gleefully run footage of some Blue Hair teenager crying in an airport because she got flagged at TSA for posting "Fuck Trump" on Facebook.
And that's what this is really for. Not some air tight seal on travel, but a few repeatable meme moments you can blast to your hog base
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That's not how it works. AI has already categorized all accounts, they'll just lookup how people have been classified all these years.
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Imagine having the money to take a visit to the US and not using the money to visit someplace actually nice.
Destroy the economy some more, please. Thank you.
All this winning's getting hard guys hard
At this point, he's got to be a Russian agent. He's pretty much single-handedly dismantled the United States on every level.
I dunno why he has to be a Russian agent. Like the American people are somehow incapable of electing an imperialist piece of shit?
At this point, he’s got to be a Russian agent.
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