Why NOBODY with a sense of self-preservation should go to the Winter Olympics: you'd be putting yourself in the gunsights of masked murderthugs:
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Why NOBODY with a sense of self-preservation should go to the Winter Olympics: you'd be putting yourself in the gunsights of masked murderthugs:
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Charlie Stross
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in reply to Michael Newton • • •JulesJones
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •@mavnn I saw that and thought I need to warn Spousal Unit that it would *not* be a good idea to provide my social media details. And ideally not go to the US on business again. I'm on an Android - I assume the secret police already have whatever access they want to my activity.
Also, I doubt I could even provide all my email addresses. I've used a lot of burner addresses over the years as an anti spam and phishing measure.
GutterPoetry
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Charlie Stross
in reply to GutterPoetry • • •@GutterPoetry This is what fascist-leaning governments always do. Restrictions on free movement are initially pitched as stopping undesirables getting in, but before long it's all about keeping their victims from escaping. Then they start building gas chambers and digging mass graves.
(I hope I'm wrong, but Trump's USA is definitely speed-running a play through of the Third Reich.)
GutterPoetry
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •I also hope you're wrong but unfortunately I think you're spot on.
I've been feel guilty, almost as though it's fear mongering or wishing awful things into existence, but I think the enemy has to be seen and understood to be fought. Also maybe because I'm relatively safe for now in Europe.
It's maddening to see americans still so complacent, but at the same time it's so hard to get people over here to even give up their shitty fascist aligned social media... We need a movement!
Ignazio Palmisano
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Skjeggtroll
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Apparently, they're not welcome:
newsweek.com/ice-agents-winter…
ICE Agents Due at Winter Olympics 'Not Welcome': Milan Mayor
Jasmine Laws (Newsweek)Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Charlie Stross • •@Charlie Stross this newspaper¹, in Italian, says that Italian officials say that as far as they know ICE agents are not expected, but they still don't have the list of agents that will escort Vance and Rubio. Also, that no collaboration with them on general security is planned²
ilpost.it/2026/01/26/ice-olimp…
¹ which tends to give coverage to the murders ICE is committing in the USA, so I wouldn't expect them to try and cover their presence, if they knew about it from reliable sources.
² whether that means that Salvini would have really liked it, but has been overridden on the point by the more self-preserving fascists in the government because of the outrage, we'll never know
now, there is still plenty of mundane reasons to avoid traveling to the winter olympics, including overpriced accommodations, infrastructure that is not ready yet, and general Italian-grade organization of events, but those tend not to put people's life directly at danger
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Autoerotic Defenestration
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •but ... that only goes for their own country.
Like, *inside* the US, Border Patrol has jurisdiction over everything within 100m of a port or frontier.
That doesn't apply to territories outside of the United States.
- greetings from 17km away from the Berlin airport, which is not a US border.
Aho
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •N4RSE - Jim
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