PieFed chez MarudWelcome to the US (Jen Sorensen)
cyranohttps://lemmus.org/pictrs/image/e55622dd-ad89-4fcf-a9de-4cfaa1e20cde.webp
cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/13908976
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PlaidBaronDaily reminder not to travel to the US. Yes, this cartoon is satirical but its still a bad idea and do you really want to support them with your money?
samus12345As someone in the US, agreed. Stay the fuck away from this fascist shithole.
Ricky RigatoniWhat if we remove panels 2 and 3 and he just mishears her say terrorist instead of tourist
IT IS DONE.
hungryphrog
bampopNeither of those words have ever existed. In the interests of language simplification both have been replaced with "turrist".
Please take care to review your Newspeak notifications citizen.
I mean nobody in their right mind wants to go visit the US anyways.
It's in many ways a beautiful country and lots of fun to visit. I used to love going there for holidays and road trips. I wouldn't consider it now of course, but that saddens me. I want to go visit, just as soon as sanity and humanity prevails.
RememberTheApollo_
DiplomjodlerSucks it had to be like this, really wanted to visit my friends in Florida. They tried to convince me it'd be fine but damned if I'll support the US right now. Also I'm not rolling the dice on the gestapo.
UnderpantsWeevilIf I wasn't already here, I would not be in a rush to book reservations.
ripcordI think this is supposed to be exaggerated humor, bit this is literally happening.
Do you remember the american youtuber who learned how US immigration works and tried to sue them?
Curious MindWhich comic strip is this ?
SundrayBy Jen Sorensen. She posts them to her personal website. They don't seem to by syndicated anywhere else.
Canada has been doing this for years.
Someone who has gone through US customs please comment if this actually happened to you. I see way too many straw man cartoons, and I hate to see a Ben Garrison of the left.
The comic strip is satire, in response to USA border agents inspecting travelers' phones and social media when they try to enter the country. And there are in fact cases where foreign nationals were denied entry to the USA on account of their social media posts. Although it has not yet been reported that any foreign tourists have literally been deported to Libya, so yes that part of the comic strip is not literally true.
But then again, neither is Garfield.
You don't seem like a sea lion, but this is well reported and easily available information.
The sea lion's questions in that Wondermark comic were perfectly valid and a good example of what to do when someone tries to dogwhistle their bigotry and then refuses to elaborate further.
I agree. I just looked through a few of their other comments and didn't observe more sea lioning. So I responded with one of the top results from a web search.
I initially wrote out a different response, but wanted to give the benefit of the doubt here.
deegeesehttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/world/europe/german-tourists-detained-deported.html
https://www.newsweek.com/australian-journalist-deported-us-alistair-kitchen-2086256
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj4w91vz7jo
And a lot more, do your own homework next time.
NovalingI gotta find the link but a woman's American-born son was detained at the airport for 8 hours and asked about his loyalty to the US because he's asian looking and was heading to some middle-eastern country or some shit. So literal citizens are being stopped and questioned.
It's kinda always been that way though, kinda on and off. I'm a white American citizen and I was detained over 4hrs coming back from Canada in the 90s. And six hours coming in from Mexico just before that. I've also been searched by guys holding AKs crossing European borders in the late 80s. And yet my US - Canada and back trip last month was super easy. Hostile borders have existed forever. I say, travel anyway.
I've also been searched by guys holding AKs crossing European borders in the late 80s
Yeah but that was before the soviet union fell and people were getting shot trying to cross over to west Berlin over the wall... It's absolutely insane that the US is now starting to be comparable to those horrifying times.
"I don't care if they have all my data. I don't have anything to hide"
First everyone always does. Second there is always a chance you do want to hide with a regime change.
Yes, but you can ALWAYS have links to Hamas. All it takes is having a friend on FB that said Free Palestine once.
Yeah, that only works for people who are brainwashed to follow whatever the current regime is pushing regardless of how much it hurts them personally, but especially if it doesn't hurt them directly in the very short term.
But complaining that this year there is no tourism in the US
Repeating history in a creepy way. only changing names: Miller instead Goebbels, ICE instead of SS ...
Damn that's such an insult to Goebbels.
That's not realistic. They'd never use real names like "Bobby".
Yes, it would be some tacticool edgelord callsign like "Viper" or "Terminator".
i literally know of a person who was a pedophile that went by 'Viper'
of course it was also a script kiddie
How did you find that out?
Long story. But it was by searching on its server while on its house. The pedo tried to incriminate the father (being from Venezuela and etc police here will try to arrest you just for being from there) first before i reported the evidence to police, it went viral on TV here but the father has been accused and incriminated by fascists political groups that doesn't care if hes a pedo or not (wich he is not, the baby of him was abused by this other person) they only want to generate fake news and get some clicks on their social media.
This is just a summary im not gonna write it all is long as i said lol
Or a tried and true classic, The Plague.
But I'm not running, I'm just a tourist!
as an american, i fucking hate US immigration. you dont need to mansplain what "having something in my bag" means or what a "plant" is.
i checked the box for "no"; gtfoutta here