Malarkey in the US

And we're back to blaming the victim :cry:

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Originally Posted by Loki

We can start with idiots who don't have the wherewithal to not write idiotic things in public right before coming to the US.

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"right before" = weeks?

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Originally Posted by Loki

We can start with idiots who don't have the wherewithal to not write idiotic things in public right before coming to the US.

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I dont think this was that idiotic, saying you're going to destroy a party isn't that idiotic. Nor was the Canadian dude talking about 'blowing away' the competition. If anything, the job of your intelligence/border patrol is to assess what are real threats and what is just 'noise', and this doesn't really make it seem like they are very good at that job. And, considering resources are not infinite, spending effort on non-threats also means spending less time on actual threats.

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Originally Posted by Flixy

I dont think this was that idiotic, saying you're going to destroy a party isn't that idiotic. Nor was the Canadian dude talking about 'blowing away' the competition. If anything, the job of your intelligence/border patrol is to assess what are real threats and what is just 'noise', and this doesn't really make it seem like they are very good at that job. And, considering resources are not infinite, spending effort on non-threats also means spending less time on actual threats.

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Erm, I fail to see how any additional resources were expanded. Presumably someone checked people's Twitter feed to make sure they didn't say anything that might be deemed threatening. Whether at that point the conclusion was that these people were or were not a threat wouldn't have any effect on the resources that were already used...As for the job of intelligence/border patrol, they're meant to err on the side of caution. Can you imagine how bad it would look if these idiots got into trouble in the US after posting that message? I don't think you realize just how arbitrary many border control decisions are; as far as those go, this decision was pretty obvious.

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Originally Posted by Loki

Erm, I fail to see how any additional resources were expanded. Presumably someone checked people's Twitter feed to make sure they didn't say anything that might be deemed threatening. Whether at that point the conclusion was that these people were or were not a threat wouldn't have any effect on the resources that were already used...As for the job of intelligence/border patrol, they're meant to err on the side of caution. Can you imagine how bad it would look if these idiots got into trouble in the US after posting that message? I don't think you realize just how arbitrary many border control decisions are; as far as those go, this decision was pretty obvious.

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Define trouble they'd cause, if they got drunk and misbehaved and were arrested, I don't think that would look bad at all, I doubt anyone would even care.

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Originally Posted by Flixy

Define trouble they'd cause, if they got drunk and misbehaved and were arrested, I don't think that would look bad at all, I doubt anyone would even care.

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I beg to differ. America isn't as tolerant of drunken stupidity as the Continent, particularly when it emanates from foreigners.

There was an article in a tabloid not long ago about a couple of Finnish boys who got arrested for being drunk outdoors in the US, which high-lighted other laws in the particular state, one being outlawing oral sex. American Exceptionalism++

Meanwhile, several American pundits can't enter the UK because they said some derogatory things about Islam...

Which is obviously a great tragedy, trampling on brown people should be a global privilege!

You can be a racist as long as you aren't a drunk racist.

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class Amerika throws Exceptionalism

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Originally Posted by Loki

I beg to differ. America isn't as tolerant of drunken stupidity as the Continent, particularly when it emanates from foreigners.

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Eh? We seem to love drunken stupidity.

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Originally Posted by Veldan Rath

Eh? We seem to love drunken stupidity.

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I don't think you realize what passes for British drunken stupidity. I.E. It usually involves damage to man or property.