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In reply to the discussion: US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport [View all]
slightlv
(7,513 posts)49. ret, that's what I've been saying since he started pushing that damn wall
in the beginning. It's not to just keep people out... it will be to keep people IN, too. What other dictatorial, totalitarian government allows the people to move from one autocratic zone to a free zone and back again? What other travel restrictions are there in those countries? In many states, women of a certain age can't travel across state borders with hassle and problems. We were yelling in the very beginning, and everyone told us we were being hysterical. But I saw us then, and still see us now, as the canaries in the coal mine. What they will take away from us... what they will do to us... they WILL do to everyone, given enough time and rope.
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I won't fly because the airlplane builders and air traffic control system sucks so bad..
mdbl
Oct 2025
#8
"Getting into the air and getting back down? That's a different story." Is it?
EX500rider
Oct 2025
#42
Statistically speaking, commercial airlines travel is the safest means of travel.
Gimpyknee
Oct 2025
#36
The feeling of safety is individually specific. What feels safe to me, may not feel that way to you or someone else. ❤️
littlemissmartypants
Oct 2025
#39
Why have a shutdown? The whole thing is a big ugly punishment of Americans, just like the big ugly bill before it.
ancianita
Oct 2025
#16
No good reason... the point of terrorizing their "enemies" is to instill fear.
ihaveaquestion
Oct 2025
#24
Possibly they want to keep him here for Trump's lackeys in Congress to grill him.
highplainsdem
Oct 2025
#9
It's likely more about the shutdown than about Bray himself. About 200 flights were cancelled from Mon to early Wed.
ancianita
Oct 2025
#14
I see. Thanks. I think I read that his flight was cancelled, and misunderstood it as THE flight that was cancelled.
ancianita
Oct 2025
#25
The Guardian's report says "the family were rebooked for Thursday evening...." We'll see if they get to leave.
ancianita
Oct 2025
#32
I expect we'll be reading more stories that constitute the regime's unfolding narrative about antifa.
ancianita
Oct 2025
#54
Flight was not cancelled. They had already checked in, went through security and were at the boarding gate.
ihaveaquestion
Oct 2025
#22
All who do not conform to the Reich will become Antifa and be made examples of.
hadEnuf
Oct 2025
#23
Amen. Because all they want is to publicly criminalize him as a leader of antifa.
ancianita
Oct 2025
#29
No proof at all this was the govt's doing, could just be a airline glitch nt
EX500rider
Oct 2025
#43