Look, seriously, do not visit the US. They’re going full fascist.
The EU should be releasing travel warnings at this point.
bleedingcool.com/comics/britis…
#USA #US #America #travelWarning #ICE #fascism #travel
British Comic Creator R.E. Burke Detained By ICE After Crossing Border
Becky Burke is known in the British comics scene as writer/artist creator R.E. Burke. I know her from Thought Bubble and you can see her work profiled on Broken Frontier. This was her last sketch diary comic posted on Instagram during her travels.Rich Johnston (Bleeding Cool News)
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I am really disappointed that #opensource organisations like @pycon and @NumFOCUS have remained silent on this.
They position themselves as being diverse, inclusive, and supporting good things for everyone all over the globe - and they do generally live up to that aim.
But on this their silence is loud.
And that silence is not neutrality.
And imho, it is privilege that allows them to remain silent, to look the other way.
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in reply to schrotthaufen • • •@schrotthaufen @WeirdWriter Exactly this. They are white.
As a non-white, it’s completely clear there are countries I wouldn’t travel to, and the U.S.A. has been one of them since 2 decades.
levampyre
in reply to meduz' • • •Victim blaming. Not cool.
Aral Balkan
in reply to levampyre • • •levampyre
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •@meduz @schrotthaufen @WeirdWriter
Whatever "puy" means. But if it's just her own fault for being so stupid to travel there, why even bother!? This shouldn't be a matter of colour. Black folks know about such things happening and prepare. White folks don't. That's what we call privilege. Nevertheless, things like these shouldn't happen - not to her, nor to anyone. But they are, it's crazy and she's a victim of this madness. It's tragic and not her fault. So don't blame her for stupidity!
Aral Balkan
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •@meduz @schrotthaufen @WeirdWriter
I agree that there should be more awareness of while privilege or cisgender privilege or hetero privilege or ablebodied privilege or rich privilege. But that's another fight.
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I think Norway at one time did release a travel advisory.
At the moment I think the EU will keep things as is for as long possible. As much as I'd like us to burn the bridges and flip off the fascists there the timing just isnt there. I think that when Trump implements some tarrifs that would provide enough cover for @EUCommission
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Not to defend the Trump administration, but immigration on the border has been like this for a long time.
Maybe things are getting worse currently (not sure where you'd get the metrics - but it wouldn't surprise me), but things were already pretty bad under Biden/Obama.
Adrian Egger
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Fear and Tooting in Las Vegas
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •If only we had elected a Democrat instead things would be *so* different......
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2010 United States Supreme Court case
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I am in the USA and I agree. I'm not inviting anyone from outside the country for the foreseeable future unfortunately.
(I have a rough idea what to do if a visitor has trouble with local law enforcement here, but you could be sent to a Federal or private location out of state where it would be hard for any host or their lawyer to communicate with you)
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •@dmarti at least i’m not in texas *shudder*
Being trans in the US right now is bringing up a lot of homosexual / jew in 1937-1938 Germany vibes. I’m more scared with every passing month
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in reply to masukomi • • •Billy Smith
in reply to masukomi • • •@hacks4pancakes moved to Australia.
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •...And in Canada...
Who knew that tightening our border would mean screening out members of the American fascist administration?
We have the world's longest undefended border between ourselves and the world's most heavily armed fascist state.
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •www.advocate.com/news/germany-warns-transgender-travelers-us
Germany warns trans & nonbinary people about travel to U.S.
Christopher Wiggins (Advocate.com)🅱️eisbolCards
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I live pretty close and not only that, now I have to avoid contaminated produce once their regulations are removed
Also have to check on vaccines atatus/guidelines. And not Covid but the ones we got 30 or 50 years ago.
dibi58
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •is time europe puts aside the politically correct and imposes a four years travel ban to the us ...
there is nothing here to see for the next four yers unless one wants to look at 1933 germany v2.0 ...
Jochen Fromm
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