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I would not fly to the US even if I got paid for it. I value my life and the US politics look like a serious threat to my wellbeing.
So, count me (German) into the group of „stay the hell away from the US“ people.
Don't worry. Americans will start coming to you when things start getting bad here. You're lucky though. You'll get the Americans who are able to travel by air.
Mexico and Canada will get ones who can't fly because they believe airplanes are demons.
Oh they're already here. One American expat I know greatly enjoys our affordable healthcare, childcare, worker's rights, tenant's rights, 30 days of paid leave, customer protections, etc. etc.
And she's a Trump supporter.
Oh, and she thinks there are too many immigrants coming to Germany.
Perhaps she would like to help reduce the amount of immigrants by getting deported herself?
If she gets her wish and Germany is ruled by the AfD party, she just might!
I have no idea why it's so common, but a lot of immigrants seem to hate immigrants. My parents are one of them
I seriously don't get it. You're the immigrant!
I am a US citizen living abroad. Even I'm afraid to go back home to see my family.
My father in law passed away back in the states and my wife was told not to come back because it's not safe. Normality has fully ended.
Wow that nearly is wartime stuff
The yanks that stay have a fight on their hands whether they like it or not.
Even as an American I don't understand why tourism hasn't dropped more than it has. I know it's down but I'm amazed people are still coming at all.
But, it's true that the mainstream media isn't really reporting on this, Trump's 'flood the zone' strategy works exceedingly well.
I don’t understand why tourism hasn’t dropped more than it has. I
Probably because something so big as a voyage to the US is often planned for years before which may make it too difficult or expensive to cancel. A year from now, things might look a lot different.
As a Canadian, I went to LA this summer because tickets were cheap and trade wars weren't begun when I bought them. But the cost of life over there is so expensive it trumps any savings on the tickets.
Not going back until you guys fix this.
Go read about how empty Las Vegas is and all the people scratching their heads wondering why no one wants to come. Personally, I think the people who say they don't know are lying or stupid.
I just did a YouTube search for 'Las Vegas dead' and found a video of a guy highlighting how dead it is, and my god the comments are all to do with stuff like price gouging cited as the reason why... Someone even suggested it's because they're all going LA instead. Nobody is mentioning the lack of foreign tourists... Crazy stuff.
Honestly, 2 things can be true. Vegas has gouged consumers excessively in recent years. Fees for parking, increased resort fees, fewer comps for gamblers while at the same time removing anything remotely affordable like buffets. They have not helped themselves in attracting domestic visitors, and the regime isn't helping with foreign visitors. It might get ugly out there really soon, and frankly, a lot of it was self inflicted by greedy corporations.
Oh wow, it's true. This is from April, it was 8 at that time:
One Kiwi woman in her 40s was allegedly detained at San Francisco Airport for 15 hours and forced to buy a return ticket to New Zealand after officials took issue with the visa she’d been issued by the State Department.
Planning to visit her partner in Florida, who works on a fixed-term contract, before holidaying in Europe, the woman was allegedly questioned for five hours over her visa, Arizona-based author Wendilynn Kay alleged in a post reshared on Facebook.
I watch Telemundo with subtitles in my office when I want to have something on so I can try to learn a little more Spanish. Everyday they're talking about ICE abducting people. It's wild. And it's local Telemundo. This shit is fucked.
I told someone from UK recently that yeah, America is cool, I think it's worth seeing some of the national parks, but maybe wait until this administration is out because holy FUCK.
can i borrow your rose colored glasses i need them got a feeling today is gonna be rough
Oh for fucks sake, stay away. Most of us know exactly what is going on. Stay they fuck away for a dozen years or so while we fight our out of it, or show up to help. Either way, don’t come here to holiday. We gotta unfuck ourselves first.
You aren't supposed to travel into Nazi Germany right as they are setting up the concentration camps. US tourism should be zero if you don't have family here
The Olympics were held in Germany while Nazis were in power, it'll be that way here too.
US tourism should be zero, and if you have family here then you should be trying to help them leave.
What has been particularly telling for me as an Aussie is the sheer number of radio ads I've heard in the past few months trying to get people to travel to the US, or offering competitions where the prize is a US holiday (which, if I was the type to actually phone and enter radio station competitions, would be a deterrant for me!). It's clear that US tourism has taken a nose-dive and plenty of us non-Americans don't want to visit any more (it's a bit disappointing as there are a few things I would like to have seen, but wouldn't risk going there now).
As an American I can confirm we are absolute trash right now and we're sealing our fate for at least a generation.
People the world over are going to spend the rest of their lives at the very least having a bad taste in their mouth when America is brought up. Things may "normalize" and regular trade agreements may resume, but trust is broken and that's long-term.
It's unbelievably depressing to watch from the inside. The shock of finding out that such a high percentage of your fellow citizens are stupid/racist/hateful is profound.
This is how state Russian media works. Never cover the truth, like a war with Ukraine. It's a "special military operation".
Im a Canadian citizen, but was born in Central America. I have tattoos and anti trump memes on my phone. I at least used to tel myself “at leadte if I get arrested and fucked with, the Canadian government will save me”
Then I saw a report about a white Canadian girl who was detained for weeks. And the Canadian government did nothing and let her rot till the Americans released her. So yeah I ain’t going anywhere near the U.S
Was recently at a conference and I wasasked if I would give a presentation at one of the Universities in the US. My rather fast no offended them.
No fucking way, nope nope nope
I'm Canadian and I'd rather get a piping hot poutine enema than visit the US right now.
People who watch fox news don't know anything. Those of us who read the news from various sources are aware of what's happening. Sadly, we're a very small minority. What's happening here is scary as hell, especially when you see so many people just acting like everything is normal, either because they actually think that or they just don't know what else to do. I hope democracy will survive this, but the architects of its demise have been largely unimpeded so far. If I wasn't American, there's no fucking way I would come here with the fulvous fascist in power. Fuck trump. Fuck fascism.
Remember the countries Trump called shitholes? That's America for most sane Europeans. It's a shithole counrty where you'll be detained if you've got a meme of Jester D. Vance.
To be fair, before that I was already afraid to go there too. There are so many people with guns and so many mass shootings, my chances of getting shot would skyrocket.
They know. The voted for it and are witnessing it quietly.
But don't forget the files guys. Keep talking about the files instead.
They know
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
They very explicitly and purposefully do not. This is a cornerstone of American domestic power. You cloud the news media with "Crime Wave" hysterics and neoliberal economic truisms, then strategically squelch or discredit any opposition views, from Dan Rather to Steven Colbert.
This is in large part thanks to a massive consolidation of media ownership over the last forty years, particularly via capture by Big Tech parent companies.
If "they know", who told them?
Why are New Zealanders being detained?
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume its predominantly Maori being detained. Because they're brown.
Yeah, wow. First I'm hearing of it and I live here.
They're doing US citizens too though, so it doesn't surprise me.
Literally just had to explain to my wife that her friends may be OK visiting as they are white but that it's not a great idea to be travelling to the US.
Regrettably I feel it's the minority in alot of countries that have these moral sensibilities
AFAIK it's not a skin color thing. Everyone may get asked to unlock their phones and provide access to their social media. If they don't like what they see, you get seperated from your children, have to go back or are deported to El Salvador.
Half of us literally voted for it specifically and will defend it, the other half feel powerless. Most of us abso-fucking-lutely know it's happening. I've seen it in my daily life, people I interacted with just gone after years of being here, no recourse.
Then there are those that know and downplay it. "Well they were immigrants, they were stupid if they lost their greencard". When I reply with "uh, it's us citizens next" they are too afraid and hopeless to accept it.
Of course millions of Americans know. It's in the news, a little. It's on social media.
