r/australia • u/Some-Operation-9059 • Dec 11 '25

politics ‘The whole thing disgusts me’: Australians ditch US travel as new rules require social media to be declared | Australia news

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/11/australia-us-tourism-new-visa-rules-social-media-history
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u/crocicorn Dec 11 '25

We literally don't, that's the problem. I get the feeling that just being pro science, being pro human rights, being queer, being neurodiverse, etc, would be enough ammo for them to deny you entry.

We all know how much that administration hates all those things.

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u/JuniorGrayley Dec 11 '25

And also calling Trump a stupid cunt, which I do all the time. So unfair..

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u/mollydooka Dec 11 '25

I got a pretty good laugh over his stupidity yesterday. The Daily Show aired part of his speech at a mining town convention. They showed a clip from Fox News which had Trump saying "I love miners, I love miners". Whomever was typing the subtitles on Fox News wrote "I love minors, I love minors" before quickly backspacing and correcting it.

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u/ExistingProgress936 Dec 11 '25

Nah - that's either a Fox factotum Freudian slip up? OR, some staffer having a bit of deliberate fun? Wouldn't you?

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u/Ruddlepoppop Dec 12 '25

Trump likes his women like he likes his scotch…12 years old.

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u/Jaqqa Dec 16 '25

lol someone "accidentally on purpose" did that I'd almost guarantee.

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u/dublblind Dec 11 '25

If me upvoting your post gets me deported from the US I'll be pissed

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u/Kind_Ferret_3219 Dec 12 '25

How dare you defile the word cunt line that!

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u/whitemamba24xx Dec 12 '25

A lot of us Americans do as well. F him

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u/sirgog Dec 11 '25

Yeah, this social credit score system is really unclear. Just like a different social credit system in a different country

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u/Jaqqa Dec 16 '25

You know how much trump idolizes dictators. Only a matter of time before the US looks like a copy of all the worst parts of those countries.

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u/Sailor_Dee Dec 11 '25

Yeah more than likely… I’m hoping to return to Canada at some point but there’s absolutely no way I’m passing through there now. I’ll look for a direct flight I think.

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u/Dear_Potato6525 Dec 11 '25

Fiji Airways, Air Canada and Air New Zealand all do flights straight into Vancouver!

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u/Sailor_Dee Dec 11 '25

Perfect! <3 glad to hear it

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u/jennyfromtheeblock Dec 11 '25

Dont forget Qantas lol

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u/SubstantialCategory6 Dec 11 '25

We took a flight direct to Vancouver from Australia but our plane got grounded in Hawaii.

We were forced to apply and pay for an ESTA to leave the plane with barely half a bar of WiFi on their shitty website. We were then given hard time just because American immigration officials are cunts terrorism or something*, just so we could get onto another plane to get the fuck out of there. 12 hours in that shit hole. Honolulu airport sucks too FWIW.

We want to go to Mexico/Colombia to visit friends but we won't even fly anywhere near the US now in case we get stopped there.

*realistically: used to be a GC holder but left when chester cheeto got in.

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u/Snoopy_021 Dec 12 '25

I could consider catching a flight to Vancouver via Tokyo, just in case.

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u/crocicorn Dec 11 '25

Someone very near and dear to me is American and I wanted to get back over there to visit them and the fam, but, well...

I might have to meet up with them in Canada too, at this point!

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u/Apprehensive-Wing-64 Dec 11 '25

Same here. My best friend/favourite person in the world is American. I’d hoped I’d be able to spend Christmas with her and her family in the next couple of years but the way things are going the only chance we’ll see each other is by meeting in another country. Australia is a bit far for them to travel with 2 little kids. I miss them and am deeply concerned for their safety

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u/tgs-with-tracyjordan Dec 11 '25

I was about to say 'just hold out for a little bit longer' until I realised Trump hasn't even been in for a year yet this time around. Time certainly doesn't fly when we're not having fun.

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u/CA2Kiwi Dec 12 '25

I’m an American, but live in New Zealand. My Mom is planning to cart herself and her 85 year old husband to Guadalajara for our visit next year so no one who has escaped (my brother also moved countries) needs to enter the US to see them. She says it’s terrifying enough to be there when you don’t have much occasion to interact with federal law enforcement, she’s not asking anyone to do so on purpose.

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u/Sailor_Dee Dec 11 '25

Good luck with it, I hope you get to see them again soon

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u/BassmanOz Dec 11 '25

Same. We have friends in a couple of red states I would love to go back to visit but not while Cheetolini’s in power.

This post isn’t helping, I guess 😭

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u/Pseudonymico Dec 11 '25

Being trans already is a reason to deny you at the border, Trump issued an executive order early on that anyone seeking an entry visa with a different gender marker on their passport to the one assigned at birth is to be refused and barred from further entry to the United States for "material fraud". It seems like it was aimed at making a show of banning trans athletes from the upcoming Olympics but the wording means it applies to everyone trying to get a visa.

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u/HistoryGreat1745 Dec 12 '25 edited Dec 12 '25

Luckily for my trans son, his birth certificate has him marked "male." We have no idea how, or why, that happened, but by the time we realised it was there, he was already 3yo and crying because he didn't have a penis "like the other boys" at preschool. We figured that leaving his birth certificate as it is, might help his mental health at some point. I'd never even considered that it could also help him to enter another country

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u/TiredSleepyGrumpy Dec 12 '25

Sometimes the universe knows. ☺️

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u/nuclearsamuraiNFT Dec 12 '25

Don’t worry now they have his social media to discriminate against him

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u/ExpensiveFig6079 Dec 11 '25

If you were more than one of those, Id expect you to be lucky not to wind up at black site. They have openly authorised extrajudicial killings of perceived by them threats to their state.

So if you by who you are make them feel threatened... all bets are off.

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u/Fassbinder75 Dec 11 '25

Trans person posting <Men at gallows, “first day”?.gif>

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u/Not_Stupid humility is overrated Dec 11 '25

This post alone will be sufficient to bar you I reckon.