What a surprise that people do not want to visit a country while it is in a speed run to the bottom. You never know when shit hits the fan with full force. You just know you do not want to be there when it happens.
this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2025
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Those cases where they put tourists into jail for no reason at all for several weeks were headline news here in Germany and I assume also in other parts of the world. That will harm your tourist industry.
I fucking live here but I’m not a doctor so nobody wants to take me. I’m exploring options from my Eastern European heritage now to try and apply for asylum in the same country that my grandfather fled almost 80 years ago.
If my grandfather were still alive to see me attempting to flee what he fought against as a 17 year old soldier, it would absolutely make him sick to his stomach.
I hope you manage to get out. I might be wrong, maybe the USA get their shit back together, but it sure does not seem likely from outside. I will tell you this, when my fellow countryman give fascism the majority (50% for the AfD in Germany) i will get the fuck out because as far as i am concerned at that point its already the enemies territory.
With all the news of ICE arresting and abusing tourists in my countries news recently I would also think twice before traveling to the US if I don't have to. Not like there aren't other just as interesting/beautiful, cheaper and by now tbh safer countries to travel to.
Besides all the moral questions wrt the slowish slide into fascism ofc.
UK and Germany made warnings not to go to the US. The US is like North Korea now, lol.
I'm in the UK, my friends are well read but hadn't heard of the detention of tourists. One of them still plans to go on holiday next month... mad
Send them as many news links as you can.
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As a citizen of the US, I'm nervous about leaving and getting back in.
If it reaches that point, just be glad you made it out in time.
I feel so sorry for US Americans. I honestly do.
Yeah, but they could have stopped this by marking a piece of paper, so…
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Wonder if this is a nationwide thing or if DC is hit particularly hard since it's the heart of the evil empire.
Oh so sad.
/s
Guess America should not have elected an orange fascist fuckwhit gameshow host to their highest office.
If the rest of the world thinks their immune to fascism they'll find out quickly they are not. Fascism doesn't come about by votes alone. Fascism is a defense response of capitalism when it is in decline. Those votes are manufactured by media, xenophobia, and a decline to the material conditions of the working class. I'm sure it won't be so as entertaining as American politics is. But it will be just as dangerous nonetheless.
no foreigners in mai country yeeha!
Why is tourism down?
From: Fuck all of you!.
To: Brother. Can you spare some eggs?.
I’m glad I got to visit DC in October. My company had a meetup there and it was genuinely a cool city with lots of neat bars.
Like fuck I’m visiting it or the USA again any time again soon though
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The more working class people leave DC, the happier I will be when the asteroid hits.
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America, fuck no!
There's plenty of other better motherfucking countries!
Ya get what ya vote for.
DC voted 90%+ for Harris. There’s almost no chance he voted for this.
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The zoo in DC is pretty dope, most of it is free as it is part of a park.
Idk though, the central parts of DC where lots of successful people are is suffocating to me. You go out to lunch and everyone has shoes on that cost more than your car and they sound like two LinkedIn chatbots conversing when this is supposedly a break from work?
Ewww
I know there are MANY other facets to DC I haven't seen though!
Countless gorgeous museums, art galleries, music venues, etc. Seriously, the museums alone are days worth of entertainment and some of the nicest in the country.
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It’s so wild that they named after one of the Dulles brothers. Truly two of the most evil people who ever lived. And we’re still living in a world grappling with the fallout of their crimes, and those who wish to continue their legacy.
Never trust countries with the following:
3. Airports named after people.
2. Streets named after dates.
1. Background music on news reports.
If you do somehow find yourself in a country with one or more those things, back away slowly and quietly until you are over the border.
There's a lot of countries with airports named after people. Weird thing to be triggered over.
I disagree - klu9 really has a point here. We are naming things after people to honor them. And if you find a country where big infrastructure projects are named after politicians, you should be sceptical. Why this politician? Who decided to honor him in this way?
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well yeah, but, see, they also did...
reads like 20 books on them, including one of the mildler ones called "the devil's chessboard"
some moderately evil or plausibly disastrous-but-inept stuff too. so, you know, maybe don't talk that way about them.
I was there two weeks ago. Expected a huge pain in the ass getting in and out.
It was a ghost town.
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Want to say good serves them right! But no. America becoming more authoritarian and insolationist is not a good thing for anyone. This situation very scary
As a Canadian, I couldn’t be happier.
Maybe we can annex some of these poor should to a country that cares.
Mostly.
Music to my ears.
i'm terrified of what the government will do when world pride comes to dc in a few months </3
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They should bring back Transatlantic ferries and cruises where people can bring their cars, trailers, and pallets of personal belongings across the ocean at affordable rates. I guarantee it would be popular at the moment, at least in one direction.
I think currently Freighter travel isn't allowed for such purposes but it used to be in the USA?
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