#us travel ban

[bloggingboutburgers]

Guess I need to vent about this still because I see literally no one talk about it and I still need to process is and this is as good a place as any

My partner (US citizen) and I (French citizen) wanted to watch Glass Onion as our New Year’s Eve movie on our last remote-date-over-the-computer of the year.

Except Glass Onion starts with US people going to Greece for fun “during the pandemic”, a time where not only Greece would be full of cops enforcing lockdown or restrictions which I didn’t see shit of in the movie, but also, and especially... Back then, Greek people, just like a lot of people from European countries, were banned from entry to the US as a follow-up to COVID-19 restrictions.

From March 2020 to November 2021, Greek people, alongside a lot of European people, were banned from entry to the US, and for a good amount of that time US people could just go to those countries whenever they felt like for fun.

I was unable to visit my partner for almost 2 years due to that, and my partner couldn’t come visit me as much, despite coming from “the right side” that WAS allowed to come in, because they didn’t have as many days off.

Glass Onion didn’t address that for shit, made the destination some kind of punchline I guess, triggered a huge trauma and left us both crying for hours on New Year’s Eve before we could even press on.

I’m sure this movie has a ton of great things, like gay rep, power dynamics across races, and other things that it probably addressed brilliantly because it mattered to US audiences. But it also basically spat on the heartbreak and hardship of millions of Europeans during the pandemic, didn’t give a shit and didn’t address it for shit, and I can’t forgive it, or anyone from the US who IS in a position to address this but doesn’t, and is the reason so many US people don’t even know that cruel, overly-long ban was a thing.

...So yeah for your culture ig

I’ll go back to posting ace comic soon I promise, I just needed this out of my system

[strawlessandbraless]

Convicted felon, Donald Trump is legally banned from entering these countries, how can he possibly serve as President of the United States?

🇬🇧 UK

🇮🇱 Israel

🇨🇦 Canada

🇨🇺 Cuba

🇨🇳 China

🇯🇵 Japan

🇮🇷 Iran

🇮🇳 India

🇦🇺 Australia

🇳🇿 New Zealand

🇹🇼 Taiwan

🇿🇦 South Africa

🇲🇽 Mexico

🇰🇷 South Korea

🇧🇷 Brazil

🇮🇪 Ireland

[turtleblogatlast]

Love the thought of Leo just casually being well traveled to absurd degrees. Like one day they’re facing their new Big Bad of the year and like, Draxum or whoever says that the key to their fight is located somewhere in, like, Latvia or some place, but no one knows where to start.

Then Leo’s like “oh I know a place” and when asked how the heck he could know of one it smash cuts to Leo falling through the ceiling of said place due to a portal mishap.

Also love the idea of Leo, being as accidentally (and then later, purposefully) well traveled as he is, sometimes taking his family on outings to different places all over, maybe to some new Yokai spots he found along the way.

In these places, Leo 100% lets his bros get scammed by tourist traps.

[fruitless-vain]

Aversive retreat gang

Basically just an animal sleepover crew, I already have chips and salsa might as well make some popcorn and bring a 2L of pop in here for the crew

[sassmill]

“If a lot of men get killed at one go, does it make the killing of one man less of a crime? I don’t know, Andy, I don’t know. I’m only twenty and they say today the world is ours, but Pa was twenty once and felt the world was his, and long, long ago Mad was twenty too, laughing at applauding audiences, smiling from picture postcards, and when I am as old as she is nothing will have changed…”

Daphne du Maurier, Rule Britannia (1972)

[khimkito]

okay im geting desparate.... do i have any US mutuals who could order me some pokemon center stuff if i get a gift card there and then send it to me......

[deltagf]

final fantasy!delta WILL appear in kh4. and she WILL stab you in the back before fucking off into a different timeline. and then cry about having stabbed you in the back.

[vanyafresita]

actually, you know what ? im glad my ex gf ghosted me, i dodged a bullet it seems

[ookaookaooka]

just had a thought that universal healthcare would be better for the environment because if there’s more people like me who want to live out in the countryside or who want to try homesteading or living off the grid but are tied to the city because of their job benefits, giving everyone free healthcare would free them up to live wherever they choose and something something less people in cities the better

[bloggingboutburgers]

Hey, I'm really sorry that the movie brought you such awful memories. As someone from the global south i can empathize (maybe a little too much) with USA's treatment of other countries- be it portrayal or IRL legislations.

I think you made a really good point- people live in so many countries, everything outside the USA isn't just a "tourist spot" and they -should- have handled it better (specially if it has topics related to systemic opression (from what it sounds like)).

Anyways, hope this year is better for you and your s/o + hopefully you can find a nice movie later on

Oh god, I am so sorry. On behalf of my country and other European ones as well, because the US might have been pulling this shit with Europe, but Europe is also pulling this shit with the global South too, and being on the receiving end of this from ONE country hasn't been fun at all, so I can't dare to imagine how it is from so many countries from the global north.

You have all my sympathies right back and I am very grateful you took the time to reach out, it truly means a lot.

Thank you so much for your good wishes, I wish you all the best too, and I hope you have a great year, at least as great as it can be.

[ray-roach]

im so mad at people who think time travel will ever exist. thats not how physics works buddy I would know (im 13 and have never studied physics in my life, however, due to an intense ego, I believe that everything my brain tells me is true because it sounds true) you are not larger than the universe you cant just grab fucking time like that and fuck with it. how would you even calculate where to go? the universe isn’t sentient or a thing it doesn’t register your HUMAN MORTAL concepts of time. you cant just tell your machine to go to 2009[1] and it’ll understand what the fuck youre talking about . shut the fuck up. listen I have childish dreams and ambitions too but you know what im NOT. an OPTIMIST. you are NOT time traveling. these are also the same reasons for visual snow and why teleportation isnt possible as well.

in 2009 stephen hawking (rip king i miss you I dont care about epsteins island you will always be in my heart) made a party for time travellers, after the party ended he released the invites . nobody showed up of course. or DID THEY? maybe they showed up but told Stephen hawking not to tell anyone they did because that could fuck up the timeline? No they didn’t. time travel isnt real. go fuck yourself hawking. love you though!

[elektranhatcios]

i mean sure ok a young man was murdered, a child is hospitalised, many are traumatised from the attack but postponing the game will fix it all, well done uefa

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

A Republican congressman seeking to represent Indiana in the U.S. Senate is expressing support for a potential law barring Hoosier women from leaving the state to obtain an abortion.

During an interview on Fort Wayne's WOWO-AM radio, U.S. Rep. Jim Banks, R-Columbia City, responded favorably Thursday to a suggestion by host Pat Miller that more needs to be done to restrict abortion in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's June 24, 2022, Dobbs decision repealing the right to abortion established in 1973 by Roe v. Wade.

"Our work as a pro-life movement is far from over," Miller said. "If a young lady can hop in a car in Fort Wayne and in an hour and a half she can be in a place in Michigan, or in just under three hours she can cross the line into Illinois, and achieve what she was (un)able to do with abortion clinics here in Indiana, the fight is far from over."

Banks responded: "That's exactly right. I'm for federal legislation, I'm for stronger laws at the state level, whatever we can do, to save lives, to protect babies. That's what this fight is all about."

The remarks by the four-term GOP congressman sparked outrage from abortion rights supporters after they were posted Monday on Twitter by Heartland Signal, the newsroom of Chicago radio station WCPT-AM.

Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker was among those appalled by Banks' suggestion the government should deny women the ability to travel outside their home state to obtain an abortion.

"The GOP's plan to criminalize the most fundamental decisions a woman can make doesn't stop with overturning Roe," Pritzker said. "The fight is far from over, and Illinois stands ready to protect all women."

Earlier in the WOWO interview, Banks left no doubt he intends to target continued access to abortion in Democratic-led "blue" states if Hoosiers elect him to the U.S. Senate in 2024.

"We have some very blue states that didn't do what Indiana did. Indiana was the first state in the country after the Dobbs decision to pass a pro-life bill. So there's much more that we must do, that we need to do, that I'm going to fight for in the House, and when I get to the Senate, I'm going to fight for there in a bigger way as well," Banks said.

Indiana's near-total abortion ban, enacted Aug. 5 by the Republican-controlled General Assembly and Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb, prohibits all abortions from the moment of conception, except within 10 weeks of fertilization for pregnancies caused by rape or incest, or 20 weeks if necessary to prevent serious physical impairment or the death of a pregnant woman, or because of a lethal fetal anomaly.

Enforcement of the statute currently is on hold while the Indiana Supreme Court evaluates the validity of a preliminary injunction issued Sept. 22 by Owen Superior Judge Kelsey Hanlon, a Republican, who concluded the law infringes on individual liberties protected by the Indiana Constitution.

[vaugarde]

have so much to work on but wanna do like a self indulgent self insert trainer thing instead

[sambusa]

Hey, this is Taylor from a few years back. Sorry for the ask. I haven't used this app in a few years and forgot how to message lol. I was looking through my old account and saw yours was still up and running, and I just wanted to tell you thank you for the time you were my friend and how patient you were with me. You were a great friend and an even better influence. Hope you're doing good!

This was such a wonderful surprise... I have so many words and yet none at all. Thank you for being my friend, too, and for the kindness you showed me. I hope the future has treated you kindly 🥹🫶🏾