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Oh shit the Nazis have taken over every level of the American government.
Fear for your lives if they approach you. Act accordingly.
I think we already knew they'd taken over Customs and Immigration. This is yet more of the same shit they've been pulling for decades - just more blatant and with a lot more coverage than usual, which is nice that people are finally seeing what they're doing. Eyes-on is, despite the lack of rebellious glamour, a critical thing to have...
Is this not protected speech?
Under the First Amendment, explicitly yes.
Does the Constitution apply to non-us citizens?
Yes. It applies to everyone within the borders of the US and US territories, and regardless of whether they are there legally.
100% but power is all that matters in the end. I think there’s an exception for invading forces which is why the admin trumped that up for the Venezuelans that were deported.
I don’t think we have rules anymore.
Tbf you don't have regular rules anymore. You only have special orangeman rules that have been enacted despite courts consistently finding they aren't real rules.
Who would protect it?
Well, the courts potentially. I am asking mainly to see whether this guy could impose another costly and embarrassing court case on the administration. While people are saying they can do whatever they want unless stopped, and there is truth to this, the more pushback, the more political cost.
We, The People.
Not lately.
It should be, but obviously not.
Can't have any free thinking or free speech in the land of the free, that's not what we mean by free. It doesn't mean you don't have to pay either.
While everyone else was doing freedom of thought, conscience and expression fascists were cooking up their magnum opus: Freedom from thought, freedom from conscience and freedom from expression.
Damn. Crazy. I was told this only happened in Evil Foreign Country.
Beginning to wonder if Americans are not, in fact, Exceptional.
We’re exceptional in all the wrong ways.
I mean they're the first 21st century fascists. That's certainly exceptional.
We’re so utterly fucked. The only silver lining is that none of it is shocking this time, so at least that part’s less exhausting.
This is another (illegal I would argue) border phone search. If you come to the us as a non citizen, I would highly reccomend getting a burner phone at this point.
In theory, you have the right to lock your phone with a pin or password and tell them to fuck off if they ask you for it, but I wouldn't depend on that right.
You would likely be refused entry for not handing over the phone, legal or not.
Using a burner phone is the best bet.
These are the same people who championed freedom of speech and cried about censorship. I know they’re spineless hypocrites, but I don’t understand how the MAGAts can justify this to themselves.
DHS looks more and more like east German State Security on Steroids
As much as I hate Australians this is over the line.
Yeah, keep making jokes. Your country is circling the fascist toilet while you make checks notes an average of 17.5 Lemmy shitpost comments a day.
slow clap
It's not like he's a vowel-hating Icelander.
Honestly even the French rank higher than Australians.
Woah, not the fr*nch!
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