I’m so very tired of this Fortress USA business. Can some nice country that doesn’t hate its citizens come take over? Maybe a group of them? Perhaps conservatorship of the UN?
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What we need is a good, old-fashioned non-hostile extraterrestrial invasion…
But they need to have vastly more powerful and advanced tech than we do, so when the powers that be inevitably try and nuke them on sight, the massive amount energy expended can be absorbed and redistributed in a benign way. (Like Wakandan armor technology, but on a much more massive scale.)
Just imagine how all the armchair warhawks and the ‘immanentize the eschaton’ assholes would shit their collective pants…
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Clearly you didn’t see the brown person running across the border. Clearly a criminal enterprise, and the USA is lucky to have such fierce protectors. [/s]
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Oh?
As a citizen of Austria, I had to do quite some paperwork ahead of time (police record, proof of acceptance, proof of sufficient means / scholarship). Nothing unreasonable, but they didn’t laugh at me for doing it before booking my flight.
The only unreasonable thing was that they still seemed to use a cold-war definition of what constituted an “industrialized country”, so people from neighboring Slovenia had to submit to extra medical exams.
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Some anecdotes from other borders:
During the 1980s, mountain hiking paths on Austria’s Southern border had signs posted that said approximately the following:
- You are crossing the border
- Have a passport with you
- Be back in your own country by sunset
- Enjoy!
And that was the border with Yugoslavia, a communist country.
Fast forward twenty years. Yugoslavia is no more, instead new EU member Slovenia sits at Austria’s Southern border. And beyond it, Croatia, which hadn’t yet entered the union.
A friend of mine is going on a trip to Croatia. By train to Southern Slovenia, and from there, by bicycle. At the border from Slovenia to Croatia, he is turned back because he left his passport at home.
So, he gets off the main road, takes some side roads until he finds a minor border crossing, which happens to be unattended. He lifts his bike over the boom, and he’s in Croatia.
Down in Croatia, he meets up with some other friends who are there by car, and they ride back together in the car. Back at the border, this time going from Croatia back into Slovenia, my friend still doesn’t have his passport.
Border police raise a stink. They threaten my friend. No, not with guns, this is Europe we’re talking about here. No, not with imprisonment. They threaten to make him pay a 30 Euro fine. But then they allow him to go on without paying.
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From the article:
She was informed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers that she had entered the country illegally, which they said was captured via security cameras.
Remind me again the cost of installing a security camera compared to a sign? This is batshit crazy.
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Just to give some history, there was a terrorism plot foiled at a border crossing from B.C. to Washington State in 1999. One Ahmed Ressan, a French-speaking Algerian had plotted, along with two of his buddies, to plant a bomb at LAX. He was caught with the bomb in the trunk of his car at a checkpoint after departing an international ferry.
This was almost 2 decades ago, but you can bet that a dark-skinned French speaking person wandering in unannounced is going to set alarms off with border guards in this region.
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“America; Just Fucking Stay Away”
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You know that prick at the DMV who says you need to fill out a different form and points to the form sitting right on his desk in front of him, but makes you go to the end of a 2 hour line because you get one shot to get it right and now you have to start over? That’s us. That’s our entire country. The entire U.S.A. has become that angry harassing bitter prick who will just cause as much misery to everyone they can because they can.
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Perhaps they thought the bomb was in her sports-bra? She was jogging. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess she wasn’t jogging pulling a trailer behind her.
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Iran did this same thing to US hikers in Iraq back in the 2000’s. Apparently we’re now as good as Iran. Yea? 
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Have you by chance read Childhood’s End?
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Having to spend 2 weeks in Tacoma in of itself should be considered a human rights violation.
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Oh thank god our astute border patrol is protecting us from deadly terrorists disguised as confused college students.
State of the art in fuckery.
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This is some straight-up police-state behavior.
In no other First-World country does an innocent border crossing into a neighboring ally result in this kind of Kafkaesque nightmare.
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death by bureaucrap…
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From two weeks ago, also on the Canadian border:
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Could have been much worse. She could have kids with her.
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Hey Ice guys,
As Melz noted, I can understand wanting to spend a couple of weeks with her, but this is entirely the wrong way to do it. Try a very swift “Ma’am, I think you accidentally crossed the border back there. Oh, it’s no problem, just be aware that this whole trail is unmarked. Nah, no worries, we’re glad to help. BTW, perhaps you’d like to cross the border again later? I know a really nice restaurant…”
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