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Elana Mitchell's avatar

I visited the US in 2018, in the middle of the last Trump regime, and it came across as a fairly normal country. No way would I visit it now.

Apart from my social media being problematic, there's the minor technical detail of being an Australian Democrat. The lack of critical thinking skills on display in the US would have me detained at the border as a traitor or spy, or both, as they tried to work out how deep the Manchurian rabbit hole the Democrats have developed with Australia goes (assuming Australia is a real country and not some made up land with paid actors pretending to be Australian staffing it) and that's before they find the podcast episode where I spent 90 mins confidently predicting a Kamala Harris win. I'd end up at Guantanamo for that one for sure.

Mind you it might be the final nail in the coffin for the AUKUS clusterfuck. I could end up a national hero if I didn't get shanked while detained in a gulag as a political prisoner 🤷‍♀️

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Semaj's avatar

I work for a US company, and I'd happily travel back to head office with them funding it and the protection of a pretty serious safety and security team, and our legal department if bad things happen.

Travelling for a holiday with the wife and kids in tow, and on my own dime. No chance.

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