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A 21-year-old tourist has described the horrendous treatment he allegedly received after being denied entry to the USA due to a meme depicting JD Vance as bald being found on his phone

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[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 54 points 11 hours ago (4 children)
[–] mofreak@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 7 hours ago

what are we, a bunch of asians?

[–] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 21 points 9 hours ago

I have never had my phone searched for memes (or at all, for that matter) when entering China.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I had one say they preferred Trump to Hilary because "at least he is helping the USSR expand" so maybe

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You gotta screenshot things like that.

[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 40 minutes ago

Was worth digging through replies because I forgot about the username

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Tankies? They are looking for red kind of fascism, not fascist kind of fascism.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 9 hours ago

That's what the Heritage Foundation says too!

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 9 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

China also has horrific human rights abuse and rampant organ farming/trafficking.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social -1 points 6 hours ago

So it's the same, but they have healthcare.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social -2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Uh huh, because there's no genocide happening in or helped by America.

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Whataboutism is not an argument. Also two things can be bad at once, this is not a zero sum game.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure how that's relevant, but I disagree.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

So you've got two genocidal states, one has healthcare (that actually does apply to Uyghurs because it's a cultural genocide/slavery thing not an extermination) and the other wants to start WW3.

Why is the first a shit hole comparable to America? They're clearly different tiers of fascist states. Everyone not a fascist state>China>Shitholes like America

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Organ harvesting doesn't count as healthcare

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Someday you'll figure out what it means that even the Uyghurs hearing about what American healthcare is actually like are shocked that it isn't propaganda.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

"My dad's genocide is more moral than your dad's genocide!"