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idk if the “lie” claim is the best language they could have used since there seems to be a few sources supporting it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_in_China
that said, obligatory fuck tankies but this is a good meme and fuck ICE.
EDIT CONTEXT: https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/06/25/norwegian-tourist-jd-vance-meme/
ICE and CBP claim the guy was denied entry for drug use. I don’t fucking believe them personally after stories like Khaby Lame essentially being forced to self-deport after some racist MAGA kid decided personally getting him deported was a good move.
But u know we all about honesty in this joint so
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USA is now fasist country
70 citizens deported, likely more
nursing mothers separated from their kids
elderly people in wheelchairs zip tied for demonstrating for lifesaving medicaid
Citizens arrested for protesting genocide
state sponsored masked thugs roaming the streets intimidating and kidnapping people
Always have been.
Wait… "finds meme on phone"? Does that mean people are required to give phones for a check up when entering US?
incoherent mumbling privacy… more incoherent mumbling
That's the tip of the iceberg.
They'll demand pins, passwords, blood sample, biometrics, etc. recently they demand that visa applicants set their social media profiles to public. Specifically to look for things like this.
Well, the only social media profile I have under my name is a decade-old facebook profile, if it still exists. Then again, they might not believe that, or otherwise not trust someone with no social media presence.
Aside from the obvious fact that I wouldn't want to give them any pins, passwords or blood samples either.
It's a shame because I'd love to visit some places and people in the US some time, but not for the foreseeable future...
Apparently they also demanded his phone password with the threat of a $5k fine or 5 years in prison. I always thought you had the right to stay silent when it came to passwords but idk if that's any different since he's Norwegian. Shits fucked.
Yea that threat is a lie. Cops lie.
Have been for years
Yeah, decades even
Don't travel to fascist hell holes.
sigh id love to move away from this fascist hell hole
what's stopping you? I moved out of the UK after brexit.
Lack of privilege
... have you known migrants in your country to be privilaged? Usually racists are mad that a bunch of poor people are "coming" to their country, while some migrants are upper class, the majority are not.
there is an inherent privilege if you're able to leave.
not saying you're rich or powerful. just that there's indeed a self descriptive privilege if you an escape. unlike those who can't.
Immigrants, in the modern age, are very much often privileged. Most countries won't accept unskilled migrants, or the disabled. Yes, they are not usually upper class, but being able to afford university-level education in a lot of places isn't easy.
Asylum seekers are the exception there, obviously. THOSE are the ones racists talk about being a "problem" most often, at least in places like Europe and Australia.
More than the ones who don't make it
cats, fear of travel, ahdh/autism/bpd/mental health, family ties, money to travel (also being trans i wanted to go to scotland until you know) and i like a place that's much different than america and my pre transition self, culturally
fair reasons. I hope that you can get some help to manage these issues alongside the everything else that's going on
Oh I know. Don't blame you for no longer wanting to be a neighbor to TERF HQ.
ireland is still on the list though! and Norway or denmark i finally went on a trip with my mum overseas to inverness/nairn in 2023 and loved it though!
Work, family, language, money. There can be many reasons.
most of those reasons usually do not stop migrants. But I am asking them specifically to find out if it is a reason like that.
literally false lol, especially the money thing. the wealth gap of my country is so intense few have the privilege of cash to uproot their entire lives, much less even afford the plane ticket.
Let me guess... you moved to another European country where you had already had free entry into.
nope. I didn't move somewhere on the same continent, nor somewhere that I already spoke the language of, nor anywhere that I had a support network.
I arrived with a suitcase in my hand and a dream in my heart.
Curious, where did you move?
There's a lot involved with moving out of the US. The easiest route is Canada. But trying to move to Europe is a uphill battle unless you're a skilled worker. Even worse in Asia, where unless you're there with a suitcase of money, you're probably going to be working from the ground floor.
Wife and two kids here, and I am looking for options but every where seems difficult.
LATAM's most liberal country. I wish you all the best, moving with kids probably makes this shit much harder. Although to give you hope, I migrated with my dad when I was 9, but he was settled in the UK before I moved to join him, and it wasn't too bad. You and your family may need to do something similar.
Best of luck.
Winnie the pooh is still censored in China btw
Winnie the Pooh is not banned in China, but comparison between him and Xi are cencured.
It's much more than that cause censors are trigger happy af so basically anything with Pooh is 99% of the time censored.
Its wild to see people defend this
Tankies gonna tank.
they weren’t defending it they were engaging in conversation on a topic which they have a fractionally different perspective/use of the language than you
gyatt damb the internet is truly poison
Nah you're just sharing dictatorship propaganda be it willingly or unwillingly so go back to the tankistan please 🙏
tragic
geez its moments like this im glad i distanced myself from lemmy. touch grass? nay. touch a whole field. count the blossoms with the skin of your fingers. hold a sunbeam and watch it pass over your body as time passes by. smile into the wind.
Lmao you're the one sharing political rage bait here, no?
i like to play and draw
Wouldn't suprise me. Due to the meme status it would be usage has to be used more as a symbol for making fun of the goverment and so on, than fans for the books and series.
Still, it's not illegal. The twitter post is miss-representing the popular line, i have rarley seen any banned claims and far moee on the cencuring line. On a similar note i don't see a lot of defending of the policy either, so i don't get what that is about.
It is technically illegal too and all Chinese know not to fuck with censor machine if they want any career in their future as at any point CCP goons can come with all of the evidence and start throwing shitbat you getting you fired or worse. It's not some secret either.
I have no first-hand knowledge of what China is, or isn't, censoring. Anyone here actually tested it that can weigh in?
Is he now in some prison in central America, or did he go back to Norway?
updated. to answer your original question, he was denied entry which is not deportation. so he’s in norway.
oof there’s a snopes post let me update the description
That's some commitment to getting the Vance meme into every news outlet.
Solution 1: don't go to fascist shitholes.
Solution 2: have a burner phone if you can't avoid it.
“Sorry I can’t sign into my accounts I have 2fa but left my other phone at home because it has no coverage in the US”
A decade ago, Australia rolled out where they have a right to check your phones and laptops. So company trips, it was always recommended to bring burners/reformatted devices. So that's been my norm.
I've been doing that for years and would strongly recommend it.
With the new policy in the visa application process, that will no longer be as effective. If you have to provide your social media profiles and make them public before entering the country, they already know who to pick out in case you said/liked/posted something that the regime doesn't like.
I actually don't have a Facebook account. They can have my linkedin, if they want 🤷
why is that picture staring into my soul like a chucky photo?
Remember, copying a film or picture is theft, so technically a copied thing is an object in its own right. A copy of bald JD is an illegal object.
Also, remember, if you find something illegal or stolen, you should be turning it in to the authorities.
Sounds to me like people should be emailing these in so they can be safely disposed of...
emailing also constitutes sending a copy soooo
Ah, so we'd be turning in twice as many illegal copies? Sounds like good citizenship!
Looking at that photo makes all those times I ever felt bad for Humpty Dumpty completely fade away.
I think you can say kill. Killing nazis is always cool.
Well the point here is not that China is cool and based actually, but that people definitely did some lying on this point and those same people definitely think it means that any and all forms of communism are authoritarian and there is no alternative to capitalism.
There has to be some percentage of people who let this be the thing that radicalises them, and I don't want to hear any doomer takes about how these people are impossible to reach. I've heard loads of stories over the years of this or that particular moment being the moment that snapped someone out of their fascist sympathies.