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Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme (www.dublinlive.ie)

submitted 2 months ago by kebab@endlesstalk.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] orionsbelt@midwest.social 69 points 2 months ago (2 children)

what the fuck did i just read? this is completely fucked:

He claims he was then strip-searched, forced to give blood samples, a facial scan and fingerprints.

"Later I was taken back in, and the situation got even worse. I was pushed up against a wall and was strip-searched with a lot of force. They were incredibly harsh and used physical force the whole time," he claimed.

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 28 points 2 months ago

Gestapo don't like no crih tih sisum

[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I seriously doubt it was just the meme - but shitty fanatics do happen to use excessive force for no reason

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What causes you to doubt it was just the meme?

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's a defense mechanism. If people are having their liberties stripped away and are being subject to violence over something so little as a harmless meme, then it could happen to anybody including yourself.

But if there are details not being reported on that would give the border agents a legitimate reason to assault the victim here, like real threats against government officials, being a menace through customs, or otherwise something any normal person would not do, then the victim deserved it and normal law-abiding people can continue to feel secure knowing they're safe from this treatment so long as they don't do whatever the victim did to deserve that treatment.

There's a similar effect for sexual assault victims: "They were asking for it because of what they were wearing/who they misplaced their trust in/where they chose to walk alone at night". It's all designed to put fault on the victim in order to maintain a false sense of security for the average person.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Yup.

[+] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io -7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Misreporting or straight out false reporting in the media is a thing. As a rule of thumb the more emotionally charged the news is the higher chance of it being a manipulation.

This was the case of George Floyd murder where media consistently avoided reporting that victim was a repeated criminal.

I fell for that once. Not gonna happen again

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So are you saying that because George Floyd had a criminal history he deserved to be slowly murdered without due process, face down in the street with a knee pressing into his neck so hard it prevented him from drawing breath? That all despite him serving his sentence for his convictions, reintegrating into society, and expressing regret over the wrongs of his past (source).

Don't you see what you're doing? "He had a rough history so no wonder he was the victim of unjustified police violence. Surely that would never happen to anybody who's never done a bad thing in their life like me."

Edit: It's totally fair to approach news reporting with a healthy level of skepticism. But justifying authoritarian violence based on the fact that news outlets sometimes withhold information seems like poor judgement to me. When they violate anybody's liberties, they violate yours too. And when they do come for you, how will you feel about the public reaction being, "meh, they probably had it coming".

[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah, the old "he committed a crime (but the courts let him out), so he deserves to die" angle. Love to see it.

Have you ever been ticketed for speeding? That very literally makes you a criminal. Do you think you deserve to die for that?

When criminals don't have rights, you don't have rights, because it's trivial to label you a criminal.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Don't make fun of bald christian men. They get angry and then their god sicks bears on you for it.

[–] B1naryB0t@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Luckily Vance is the Antichrist. I mean, he killed the pope!

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

what makes you think that wasn't 'sanctioned'? I mean WokePope was Woke!

(well. not that woke. but, uh. It's all relative.)

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think trump is too afraid of bears to use them.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I don’t see why. It’s not like they eat junk food or anything.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

1000001531

this thread needs more JD Vance memes.

[–] Metostopholes@midwest.social 26 points 2 months ago

Officers quizzed Mads about his visit, and his plans, before adopting a personal line of questioning. "They asked direct questions about drug smuggling, terrorist plans and right-wing extremism, completely without reason," he claimed.

He should have admitted to that last one. They would have let him right in.

[–] nasteva@jlai.lu 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Mads Mikkelsen

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not THAT Mads Mikkelsen, though 😄

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which one is it then?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

The Norwegian one.

[–] FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Confused the shit out of me for a sec

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

fuck dude

I've got roughly about a dozen of those JD Vance memes scattered across my gallery

They'd probably magdump me in a holding cell

Wonder what they'd do to people who have literal hundreds of those jpegs

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Your username doesn't do you any favor in this case

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 17 points 2 months ago

Why were they even checking his phone? I went to China recently and they didn't check my phone.

[–] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The fact they chose not to use the (entirely accurate) headline of "US Denies Mads Mikkelsen Entry to US due to Vance Meme" is the most frustrating part

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Looks like it’s just a guy with the same name.

Unless the famous Mikkelsen has had a really rough 21 years

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh good lord, that is terrifying!!! Imagine waking up in bed to seeing THAT!!!

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I know at least two people in this world that do.

[–] Drdoom2027@kbin.earth 11 points 2 months ago

Say thank you. /s

[–] Bot@sub.community 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Remember don’t save a Winnie the Pooh, Xi’s mimic on a device that you bringing with you when you travel to China. Or your organs will be harvested :)

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I have sent my Chinese girlfriend memes about Xi for ages, also got blocked by the Chinese embassy on twitter 6 years ago. I recently went to China and literally nothing happened. They don't really care that much, as long as you behave yourself and don't try and cause civil unrest.

Even China wouldn't really get you for this. Maybe at worse, a mild telling off.

[–] kebab@endlesstalk.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, I on the other hand have a friend from China who casually started explaining me how her boyfriend went to a Chinese jail for 2 weeks after sending a Winnie-the-Pooh meme onto a private WeChat group, acting like it’s not that big of a deal

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Problem was he sent it in a WeChat group. Although that's different, as he wasn't a foreigner. This article is about foreigners and a dude who had a meme saved on his phone.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

What's fucking stupid is that JD Vance himself has participated in the meme.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Here in the British Colonies of America, we have a long tradition of never criticizing our leaders. Wait, United STATES or America?? When did that happen? Oh, I have made some serious mistakes.

[–] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

obviously they thought he was gay~

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