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Dear European friends,

Important advice from an American citizen.

#BigBrotherIsWatching #TakeCare #StaySafe

Dear Foreign Friends, For your own good, do not come here. If you must come here do not bring a phone, laptop or similar device. Scrub all of your social media. While here, never post. Avoid crowds and demonstrations at all costs. Have a check-in routine with a friendly US citizen. I'm serious.
#staysafe #takecare #bigbrotheriswatching
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US Bluesky users should be careful with what they post: all posts are archived. And I guess European social media users planning to visit the US should be aware that their posts can be used against them by the Trump regime too.
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The best advice is to not visit the USA. There are better & much friendlier countries to visit.

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Stone Bear (has moved)
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@CodieneC Speaking as a recovering American, I'll second that. It's not safe for y'all right now. (If I *did* have to go, I wouldn't not take a device, but I *would* keep the VPN on at all times and make sure my access to it was NOT biometric.. no finger-swipe or face-unlock... and get in, do your thing, and GET OUT.)
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i wouldn't go for a walk in the US, not even before Trump.

It never was safe. Even exchange students were shot (legally) just for entering the wrong driveway by mistake

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Which border crossing would you recommend for entry into the US?

a) Land
b) Air (stateside)
c) Air preclearance in Ireland

I think preclearance in Ireland could currently be the least dangerous point of entry. What do you think?

For exit, I would probably try to use a land border, if I can.

But all of that is just hypothetical as I have no plans to travel to US.

Oh and, actually, unfriendliness of CBP, ICE and TSA has been a long-standing issue even before Trump.

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@hallunke23 tangent but why is preclearance in ireland a thing, in general? specifically ireland? is there some weird unique quirk there?
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I think it exists because many US soldiers posted abroad fly via Ireland. TIL that US CBP in Ireland isn't allowed to carry guns.

edition.cnn.com/travel/us-cbp-…

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I was never going to set foot in the US again after my experience in 2005. Waiting for my flight home I got pulled aside and stripped to my boxers by a guy who threatened to keep the jewellery (irreplaceable; the maker died) that I'd arrived in the country in seven weeks before. That was BEFORE the TSA.

So basically, fuck the US as a place to ever set foot, as far as I'm concerned.

I was only there to help someone else manage their wedding...

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