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Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme
ExtremeDullardhttps://www.dublinlive.ie/news/world-news/man-refused-entry-us-border-31925059
Don't tourists know by now that visiting the US in 2025 is like visiting Germany in 1938?
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ØR10N5B3LTwhat the fuck did i just read? this is completely fucked:
He claims he was then strip-searched, forced to give blood samples, a facial scan and fingerprints.
"Later I was taken back in, and the situation got even worse. I was pushed up against a wall and was strip-searched with a lot of force. They were incredibly harsh and used physical force the whole time," he claimed.
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BlackLaZoRI seriously doubt it was just the meme - but shitty fanatics do happen to use excessive force for no reason
potoooooooo 🥔What causes you to doubt it was just the meme?
BigBenisIt's a defense mechanism. If people are having their liberties stripped away and are being subject to violence over something so little as a harmless meme, then it could happen to anybody including yourself.
But if there are details not being reported on that would give the border agents a legitimate reason to assault the victim here, like real threats against government officials, being a menace through customs, or otherwise something any normal person would not do, then the victim deserved it and normal law-abiding people can continue to feel secure knowing they're safe from this treatment so long as they don't do whatever the victim did to deserve that treatment.
There's a similar effect for sexual assault victims: "They were asking for it because of what they were wearing/who they misplaced their trust in/where they chose to walk alone at night". It's all designed to put fault on the victim in order to maintain a false sense of security for the average person.
Misreporting or straight out false reporting in the media is a thing. As a rule of thumb the more emotionally charged the news is the higher chance of it being a manipulation.
This was the case of George Floyd murder where media consistently avoided reporting that victim was a repeated criminal.
I fell for that once. Not gonna happen again
Ah, the old "he committed a crime (but the courts let him out), so he deserves to die" angle. Love to see it.
Have you ever been ticketed for speeding? That very literally makes you a criminal. Do you think you deserve to die for that?
When criminals don't have rights, you don't have rights, because it's trivial to label you a criminal.
So are you saying that because George Floyd had a criminal history he deserved to be slowly murdered without due process, face down in the street with a knee pressing into his neck so hard it prevented him from drawing breath? That all despite him serving his sentence for his convictions, reintegrating into society, and expressing regret over the wrongs of his past (source).
Don't you see what you're doing? "He had a rough history so no wonder he was the victim of unjustified police violence. Surely that would never happen to anybody who's never done a bad thing in their life like me."
Edit: It's totally fair to approach news reporting with a healthy level of skepticism. But justifying authoritarian violence based on the fact that news outlets sometimes withhold information seems like poor judgement to me. When they violate anybody's liberties, they violate yours too. And when they do come for you, how will you feel about the public reaction being, "meh, they probably had it coming".
MetostopholesOfficers quizzed Mads about his visit, and his plans, before adopting a personal line of questioning. "They asked direct questions about drug smuggling, terrorist plans and right-wing extremism, completely without reason," he claimed.
He should have admitted to that last one. They would have let him right in.
FuglyDuckDon't make fun of bald christian men. They get angry and then their god sicks bears on you for it.
Luckily Vance is the Antichrist. I mean, he killed the pope!
what makes you think that wasn't 'sanctioned'? I mean WokePope was Woke!
(well. not that woke. but, uh. It's all relative.)
I think trump is too afraid of bears to use them.
I don’t see why. It’s not like they eat junk food or anything.
touristfuck dude
I've got roughly about a dozen of those JD Vance memes scattered across my gallery
They'd probably magdump me in a holding cell
Wonder what they'd do to people who have literal hundreds of those jpegs
kamenlady
HM King Charles III DG FDWhy were they even checking his phone? I went to China recently and they didn't check my phone.
The fact they chose not to use the (entirely accurate) headline of "US Denies Mads Mikkelsen Entry to US due to Vance Meme" is the most frustrating part
Boomer Humor DoomergodLooks like it’s just a guy with the same name.
Unless the famous Mikkelsen has had a really rough 21 years
nastevaMads Mikkelsen
Not THAT Mads Mikkelsen, though 😄
Oh good lord, that is terrifying!!! Imagine waking up in bed to seeing THAT!!!
Drdoom2027
gedaliyahHere in the British Colonies of America, we have a long tradition of never criticizing our leaders. Wait, United STATES or America?? When did that happen? Oh, I have made some serious mistakes.
Bot R1Remember don’t save a Winnie the Pooh, Xi’s mimic on a device that you bringing with you when you travel to China. Or your organs will be harvested :)
I have sent my Chinese girlfriend memes about Xi for ages, also got blocked by the Chinese embassy on twitter 6 years ago. I recently went to China and literally nothing happened. They don't really care that much, as long as you behave yourself and don't try and cause civil unrest.
Even China wouldn't really get you for this. Maybe at worse, a mild telling off.
Well, I on the other hand have a friend from China who casually started explaining me how her boyfriend went to a Chinese jail for 2 weeks after sending a Winnie-the-Pooh meme onto a private WeChat group, acting like it’s not that big of a deal
Problem was he sent it in a WeChat group. Although that's different, as he wasn't a foreigner. This article is about foreigners and a dude who had a meme saved on his phone.
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I wish I could send a meme and get deported some days,
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Yet, I don't see it posted in these comments yet.
Didn't that belong to HR Giger?
TIL JD likes sloppy seconds
"Mads told Nordlys he tried to explain the images as being harmless and meant as jokes but the immigration authorities ignored his pleas. He claims he was then strip-searched, forced to give blood samples, a facial scan and fingerprints."
Blood for Memes, incredible
I guess the rules changed since 2020:
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-meet-legal-requirement-collect-dna-samples-certain-populations
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Fascists don't follow any rules except what their Fuehrer says.
Remember some years ago when people were posting online like "in Russia it's illegal to post this picture of Putin 🤣" with this pic?
Now that's the USA.
As much fun as we're having sharing and resharing this ridiculous image of a ridiculous person, this is actually a very serious problem.
This poor guy was abused and it speaks terribly about the nature of the U.S.
There are so many people willing to beat and abuse other people for no other reason than they are given a green light to do so. It's pretty disgusting. People are afraid to voice criticism. When I criticize the U.S. it's because I believed all of the things I was told as a kid that were only partly true, that it's a great county. When people criticize the U.S. they are holding it to a higher standard, they want it to be better. If you can't take criticism you're weak and it shows you don't want to improve or make corrections.
If you're going to the US, backup your data and wipe your phone clean of everything personal. Play dumb, leave Facebook & Instagram installed etc.
Don't do anything remotely fancy, because these mf-ers are just entitled children with a gun, they own you.
Or visit Europe
There are plenty of beautiful place to see and great people to meet in Europe too, and you can see and meet them all without subjecting yourself to Gestapo-style thuggery upon arrival.
For now. It's not looking to bright over here either, but compared to the US it's much better ofc.
Or come to Canada. We're mostly nice. Ignore those bots in Albertastan
Hoping to visit soon this summer! Not too thrilled with the idea of having to come back home, with all this going on.
Assuming you're coming from the US, where are you coming from? Driving or flying? Troy's travel tips and unsolicited advice for free, this evening only!
Hoping to head out to BC and maybe Alberta last, depending on the amount of time I have. I'll be driving, I live in Montana so I'm close.
Aha, "just south of me", I say from a thousand miles away.
If you're a mountains person, yeah BC is the place to be. But it's also same-same as what you can see in a lot of places in the US in the mountains. Like, you won't tell the difference between much of BC and much of Washington.
If you've got the time, go straight north from your location. Way way north. Go to Yellowknife, and do it in March -- it's about three days driving. You'll get there and they'll have northern lights galore, ice castles on the lake, people driving their trucks on the ice to their houseboats that have just frozen into the ice for the season...
Or go in summer and go fishing there. The lake is 600m (1900ft) deep... Trout like tuna.
Unsolicited advice ends ;)
Hey, thanks for that advice! I'll definitely have to go check those places out! :)
How do we know you aren’t just a sentient mosquito. Isn’t it the national bird of northern Canada?
I suggest visiting Lake Okanagan. Take a wine tour. Pick some fruit. Go swimming at Skaha Lake. It's the most beautiful part of Canada in my books, with Banff a close second.
hmm, I was thinking about visiting Calgary this summer. What's up with Alberta?
They're trying very hard to be Texas north. The Premier of the province is ignoring science and, in many cases, logic. Anti-vax. That's one reason they have more measles than the entire USA. There is even a fringe group that wants Alberta to secede from Canada and join the US.
The economy is largely based on oil, so many of them deny climate change.
Ironically, they have some of the most beautiful scenery in the country, if not the world.
gramie already mostly answered in line with what I'd say: there is an alt-right political shift there, where the lunatics are running the asylum and we keep expecting for sanity to re-emerge. Every country has a pocket like this somewhere. Most people in Calgary are perfectly nice, in the same way that most people in Omaha are perfectly nice, until a trans person is on TV.
The NDP just won 2/3 of last weeks byelections here. We do have a loud minority voice of right wing crazy but if anything the province is moving away from the right.
Wish you luck 🤞
I am involved in local governance here and its not fun under the UCP but its not the bleak right wing hellscape the rest of the nation says it is.
I’d ignore Quebec, anywhere else is beautiful.
If you have to go to the US as part of a business trip for work, just resign. It's safer.
At this point absolutely! Things are only going to escalate. Especially once elections time comes around and the US citizens realize there won’t be another legitimate election.
Or, if at all possible, don't do business with the US.
Montreal's reeeal nice this time of year.
Got lucky. Next person they find with one will be sent to the concentration camps.
Critique of the dear leader is forbidden. Freedom truly is dead.
It's a movie plot but I wish somehow hackers could inject random anti Trump memes on all phones just to see what happens.
They will not stop with tourists and immigrants. They're preparing to crush democratic resistance.
Y'all are making it so easy to keep these fuckin' elbows up.
President Rapist, Couchfucker Veep.
This is America.
It's pitiable.
Quick! Someone make it a Garbage Pale Kid card. 🤣
Did anyone else immediately think of Galen Erso?
In all seriousness this is really scary and I’m glad the guy is ok.
Bro did nothing wrong
Nah. Dude was denied entry because of admitted drug use.
Project much?
You can look up the news story. Border control came out and clarified because of how viral his story became. You can hate the current presidency, but that does not change laws and how they are enforced.
If you're going to dispute it, then you should look up the fucking news story and post the source of the refutation.
Of course a different administration changes how federal law is enforced. Laws aren't self-enforcing magic. Administration policy has everything to do with the way federal laws are applied and enforced.