I won’t set foot on US soil again as long as Trump or any other conservative is running this country.
It’s not even just about how you get shafted at the border nowadays. I simply don’t want to visit a country that is ruled by misanthropic fascists.
And I think that many people will probably feel the same way.
Yep. For the same reason I wouldn’t visit Russia, Turkey, and the likes.
Even though I’d really like to aside from the regimes.
All those ungrateful tourists that can’t stand the idea of getting mistakenly deported into a High Security Salvadoran prison and then being left to rot there because ‘yeah, it’s kinda annoying but we can’t get him back, you know’.
If I were the all-mighty orange dude, I would put a 146% tax on every single tourist that is refusing to come spend their money in the USA! They’re nothing but traitors! They should pay! And maybe I would invade their country, to show the world who’s the boss.
I’m an American who has traveled to Europe a few times since Trump. I talked with a few Europeans about our president and all but one were not shy about disliking Trump. The only exception was a polish man who honestly seemed like not the greatest guy. MRA type from my interactions with him. Trump is more unhinged than ever so I wouldn’t travel here. I absolutely think about the politics of a place and how it could contribute to things going wrong when I travel abroad, so I get it
i really hope the majority of countries boycott the 2028 games and don’t show up in la.
Nazi Germany, China and Russia/Soviet Union set a rather bad precedent for this.
no shit, dont want to have some border police going through my phone and putting me on detention only to deport me back later
If you’re lucky you’ll be deported back to your own country.
I don’t blame a single person for not wanting to tour the US ATM.
That whole “throwing people in jail for weeks for thought crime” thing isn’t as inviting as Trump thinks, apparently.
Straight from Musk’s playbook of business success.
“I’ve let all the Nazis back on Xitter. Wait! Advertisers! Where are you going?!??”
How long until they start suing tourists for not going to the US?
My country is vast. My country is huge. My country is beautiful and welcoming too. My country won’t jail you because of your thoughts. My country is Canada 🇨🇦 and we have amazing vacationing spots.
And people should go there ASAP, as pretty soon they’ll probably have to worry about some Belarus-style shenanigans happening as their flight transits US airspace.
Your country encourages people to kill themselves over minor treatable diseases they can’t pay for.
encourages people to kill themselves
Encourages? Can you cite a reputable source?
Is the Guardian reputable enough? Because it is true that poverty is a terminal illness, but society is the cause of it!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/11/canada-cases-right-to-die-laws
I would qualify under this stupid shit
I think you can actually get sent to jail in Canada for a telling a bad joke, but I could be wrong and that’s not at all the point. You’re right, Canada’s vastness and diversity of the people and places is a true blessing.
Mike Ward, a Quebec comedian, was ordered to pay a fine of $42,000 for jokes about Jeremy Gabriel, a disabled singer, after a human rights tribunal ruling. Ward appealed and eventually won his case in the Supreme Court, which ruled that his jokes did not breach Quebec’s Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. Despite the financial penalties, Ward was not imprisoned.
Ok, not jail.
Well one’s freedom ends when it infringes on another’s
What freedoms are infringed by joke telling?
We have the best jokes in Canada. Tell a bad joke? Straight to jail. Tell a joke that’s too good? Believe it or not, also jail
Don’t know why but the last few years when someone says they have the best anything I get super sceptical and start disliking this person for no further reason. Nothing personal I guess.
I take it you haven’t seen Parks and Recreation
I have seen most of it and i know you’re not meaning to sound like Trump but I can’t help to hear his voice in my head as soon as I see ‘we have the best …’
The quote is someone from a dictatorship, so it kind of is meaning to sound like Trump, or rather like the general type of shitbag that Trump is.
Well people don’t want to be sold into slavery to El Salvador. Big surprise!
I don’t blame any non-American for staying out of the insanity soup going on here.
Even as a middle age, “white privilege” guy, I’m concerned about traveling outside the U.S. and coming back through immigration. I’m liberal, protester, and strongly anti-Maga on the socials.
I feel bad for the Olympic organizers. Good luck luring tourists to the Olympics.
Fuck em. The Olympics are now the ultimate corporate show because of American influence. Best to die anyway as they certainly aren’t a show of amateur sport any longer and haven’t been for decades. It’s a major cash grab for a few wealthy sponsors, advertisers and IOC committee members more than a place for “underrepresented” sport to have a competitive international arena.mot to mention at all the pro athletes who ruined the concept by attending.
especially considering the us is pulling visas for athletes.
When the US Olympics are worse than the literal 1936 Nazi Olympics
Quite literally, as this is going on, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida is trying to convince everyone in the state that it would be a really good idea to just… massively reduce, if not entirely get rid of property taxes… and base government revenue off of higher sales taxes… on tourists.
Florida is … almost certainly the US state with the highest proportion of its economy/tax revenue … tied to tourism.
I struggle to comprehend this level of stupidity, to the point that I am more inclined to believe DeSantis is just trying to make himself king of a rapidly economically declining and literally sinking fiefdom.
Agriculture and fishing? scared all the immigrants away.
Tourism? tanking.
Property values? also tanking.
Property insurance? fleeing the state, no more mortgages.
Uh uh what do what do?
Tax break!
If Dems get the epithet ‘tax and spend’, Reps get the epithet ‘Slash and burn’.
What a fucking moron.
Honestly, if Florida wants to economically strangle themselves, I’m not going to stand in the way of them having the day they voted for. They’re literally (traditional definition) putting children to work now, because they scared most of the migrant workforce away by being super racist.
U.K. has fallen by the least, which is disappointing to see.
Let’s be honest, it’s the most America coded European country
Yup. The EU doesn’t want us back in cos the USA will use us as a back door. It’s infuriating cause I don’t want to be that guy.
How would that manifest itself sorry?
Do you mean we’re America’s bitch so we’d use our influence as part of the EU to campaign for things that benefit the US? That seems plausible
Yeah, I don’t want to get detained for a week and sent to el salvador.
Marketing opportunity - TWO countries for the price of ONE!!!
I guess that pineapple they are fucking you with has a silver lining
If you enjoy the risk of getting suddenly jailed NK or Iran are way better.
You just made me realize there’s less chance to get imprisioned as a tourist in NK than in USA right now xD
US border is asking questions about your opinion of Trump. No other country does that, even if going out of your way to bad mouth their leadership won’t be appreciated.
The answer “it’s none of my business, you guys elected him.” resulted in being turned away from the border.
Iran has better food anyway.
Actually, since ICE isn’t sending people to trial, they might be lowering the US statistic lol.
So not only are you safer from getting arrested in Iran, but you’re more likely to receive a trial.
i have never understood why anyone would intentionally come to the US for tourism, especially from europe. all the good food, beautiful art and architecture, and historic artifacts are on your side of the atlantic already, why cross it?
There are definitely things worth seeing in the US. I think the best example is the national parks. Europe absolutely has protected parks, but we’ve got nothing on the same scale because there have been settled agricultural societies all over the continent for millennia. Our geography also simply doesn’t include anywhere like Badlands or Grand Canyon parks, nor do our forests have anything like the giant redwoods.
Also while we have a tonne of interesting history and culture in Europe, different history and culture is a draw. I’m a fan of jazz and blues music and Cajun food, so I’d very much like to see New Orleans some day. The Puebloan Cliff Palace would be pretty great to see. I don’t know much about most of the Native American societies in what is now the US, but I bet there are a lot of fascinating stories to hear.
I personally wouldn’t choose to holiday to the US at the moment, but I can recognise its draws.
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/trump-logging-national-forests
We’re cutting down the National Forests now, and/or attempting to build new cities where they used to be.
National forests or national parks? Either one is bad but parks would be so much worse.
