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Sundray@lemmus.org to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days ago

Welcome to the US (Jen Sorensen)

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Welcome to the US (Jen Sorensen)

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Sundray@lemmus.org to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days ago
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By Jen Sorensen.

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  • PlaidBaron@lemmy.world
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    Daily 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?

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      Satirical but… not too far off from what is actually happening.

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      As someone in the US, agreed. Stay the fuck away from this fascist shithole.

    • AttaBoiShmattaBoi@lemmy.world
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      Thanks. The fewer, the better.

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    A normal day in the USA.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pub
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      Land of the fee.

  • Kindness is Punk@lemmy.ca
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    Sucks 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.

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    What if we remove panels 2 and 3 and he just mishears her say terrorist instead of tourist

    • Ricky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.com
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      IT IS DONE.

    • bampop@lemmy.world
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      Neither 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.

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    I think this is supposed to be exaggerated humor, bit this is literally happening.

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    panel 3 is not only superfluous but completely hurts the flow and the humor

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    Do you remember the american youtuber who learned how US immigration works and tried to sue them?

    https://youtu.be/uBFddeyCVok

  • Curious Mind @lemmy.world
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    Which comic strip is this ?

    • Sundray@lemmus.orgOP
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      20 days ago

      By Jen Sorensen. She posts them to her personal website. They don’t seem to by syndicated anywhere else.

  • AttaBoiShmattaBoi@lemmy.world
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    Canada has been doing this for years.

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      We have?

      Or are you just trying to cope?

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    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.

    • Sundray@lemmus.orgOP
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      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.

    • A_cook_not_a_chef@lemmy.world
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      https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/entering-the-us-think-twice-before-posting-about-trump-your-social-media-could-get-you-denied-entry/ar-AA1ByyKJ

      You don’t seem like a sea lion, but this is well reported and easily available information.

      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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        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.

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          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.

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      Read the news, dude.

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    • psx_crab@lemmy.zip
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      https://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.

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