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JustAnotherGen

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3. This is monumentally

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Dec 15, 2025, 02:03 PM

Dec 15

Stupid.

I've said for awhile now -

What is used to keep people out . . . Can be used to keep us in.

We are at the 'papers please' point on the timeline.

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US social media requirements for foreign visitors could have 'chilling effect' on travel, industry group says [View all] BumRushDaShow Dec 15 OP

Ya think? Ocelot II Dec 15 #1

What dunce in the t-rump administration thought this one up... wcmagumba Dec 15 #2

This is monumentally JustAnotherGen Dec 15 #3

I'm thinking this may be an --intentional-- part of their thinking: ret5hd Dec 15 #5

Other countries never stand up to the US JustAnotherGen Dec 16 #16

I doubt any who did not HAVE to travel to the US would have done so even before this ridiculous step... hlthe2b Dec 15 #4

I would advise any foreign traveller Miguelito Loveless Dec 15 #6

I still have a few places in Europe and elsewhere I want to visit, and I worry about retaliation. Lonestarblue Dec 15 #7

It won't be long until countries have travel advisories about the US sakabatou Dec 15 #8

They do. HappyLarge Dec 15 #14

Face possible kidnapping, being sent to detention center or jail, torture, death? Irish_Dem Dec 15 #9

Host Country No More EmmaLee E Dec 15 #10

It already is. And it is stopping many green card holding Americans from traveling too. SunSeeker Dec 15 #11

what kind of "history" are they screening for ? Nigrum Cattus Dec 15 #12

Isn't that the point? HappyLarge Dec 15 #13

Could have?????!! WTF? KPN Dec 16 #15

In other news EuterpeThelo Dec 16 #17