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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.
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.
Wonder if this is a nationwide thing or if DC is hit particularly hard since it’s the heart of the evil empire.
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.
I can tweet at my president to show me his balls.
Can’t do that in North Korea.
Not for very much longer, he’s working on limiting speech that he feels is critical of him. You watch
If it went viral and people started retweeting it, putting on posters, and getting it in the news, you might get deported.
To Ireland fuckin sick
That’s quite a username.
You can in North Korea. Once.
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…
Will write code for visa
Same boat man! Will design you a satellite constellation for a visa.
Got any friends who develop cube sats? We could do some real good work with I2P and satellite modems. We could link up with the kinetic launch people and set up a new opensource encrypted internet.
My coworkers on my current project are also supporting a cube sat mission that just launched. I’m not sure I follow what’s really unique about a cube sat mission though?
I think the kinetic launch is a cool idea from a physics perspective, but from a systems perspective, it’s going to be fucking difficult to build systems to withstand it.
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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.
America, fuck no!
There’s plenty of other better motherfucking countries!The more working class people leave DC, the happier I will be when the asteroid hits.
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As a Canadian, I couldn’t be happier.
Maybe we can annex some of these poor should to a country that cares.
Mostly.
no foreigners in mai country yeeha!
Why is tourism down?
From: Fuck all of you!.
To: Brother. Can you spare some eggs?.
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.
Oh yeah definitely, but museums kinda hang out in the worst places don’t they lol.
Not the poorest/roughest places, just the worst places lol
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.
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.
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.
I kind of get the others, but not 2. I feel like that includes most countries (there’s this Wikipedia page which I know is incomplete. What’s wrong with remembering things like the end of the war that wrecked the city?
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?
Yeah, who names an airport terminal after someone as awful as…“Harvey Milk?”
/s
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
Glad you had a good time. I understand. :(
Are you from DC? If so, I hope to get to visit your city again in more stable times. I’m from Ottawa, CAN so we’re capital bros 🤜🤛.
We’re not as big of a city but worth visiting imo
Both cities have great museums. Someday I’ll see the Smithsonian Air Museum annex, but not any time soon.
i’m terrified of what the government will do when world pride comes to dc in a few months </3
Likely they will try and make it illegal on as many levels as they can.
Ya get what ya vote for.
DC voted 90%+ for Harris. There’s almost no chance he voted for this.
Around half of Americans don’t even vote too, further reducing the chance.
23% of America voted for this.Yeah, a lot of people don’t vote out of apathy, but IMO straight up voter suppression (especially the less overt kind) is an understated effect on our elections. It would be ridiculous to think having the world’s largest prison population per capita doesn’t also lead to a huge reduction in voting rights for those imprisoned, both currently and previously.
Not voting is a vote for the guy you absolutely would never vote.
Sorry, it’s been ten years of this. I’m kinda done with giving nuance to Americans.
Harsh? Maybe, but when even the Democrats are caving in to Trump’s demands for fuck all reason, I’m just done caring about what the thoughts of people down South are.
Literally been told by “left-wing” Americans that my thoughts and opinions on their politics don’t matter even with the bullshit going on, and all I can think of is how I as someone over the border wouldn’t have to fucking care if they treated this guy like the fucking threat they supposedly see him as rather than do nothing more than tell people to vote as if that’s some big fucking accomplishment.
If getting out to vote is supposedly all that people could have done against this and nothing else (their words and actions, not mine), then yeah, ya get what ya vote for.
I’m kinda done with giving nuance to Americans.
Exactly the kind of sentiment the people in power making these batshit decisions want. They want people making vapid generalizations, they want people reacting instead of thinking. Acting out against each other instead of working together.
You’re sick of this shit? We have to fucking live it. You want to give up? Fine. But don’t blame others when things don’t get better, while you sit on your high horse and the world burns around you. Cause it sure as fuck isn’t limited to the US, it’s just easier to ignore everything but because the US when they’re falling so far from where most people there thought they were.
I’ll rephrase it for you: You get what you don’t resist. Also known as: History is made by the people who show up. The crux of the issue is that when it mattered, most people in America didn’t show up (and no, I’m not talking about election day). Americans collectively share responsibility for not showing up, and nothing is going to change until they decide to show up. It’s that simple.
Arguably, the systems that have lobotomized the US were set up by people who are so old they’re becoming president or dead. Lots of money is spent to make it hard to even see what is going on, let alone how to do something about it.
Oh get over yourself. You people swear you’re fighting the good fight by thinking. That’s the whole problem. All anyone does is think, no action. Then it’s shocked pikachu face.
To people all over the world, ignore this type of bleating. This is the same rhetoric the dems use and thanks to them we’re now the dumb reich.
I ain’t the one giving up, I’ve hardly bought a single U.S. made product at the store since this nonsense started, and this entire ordeal has invigorated me to get more involved with my community and organizations that stand for the causes I believe in. I take a look at how voters and party members down south act for the most part on BOTH sides of the aisle, and the big conclusion I constantly come to is how Americans just seem to have a knack to give up on anything that supposedly matters to them.
I can go on all day about things that have happened over the years that have led me to that conclusion, but quite frankly it’s a lost cause if it takes someone outside borders to explain politics within them, assuming that people will even care or respect what people have to say outside borders to begin with.
Now imagine how much worse it is actually being here and being one of the targeted groups.
Like someone who’s home is under threat of annexation?
Yeah dude that’s probably worse than being forcibly detransitioned and sent to a camp in Guantanamo or El Salvador.
As a Canadian who’s sick of Amerikkkas shit, yeah… both can be bad at the same time. They don’t exist in a vacuum from one another.
I’m not saying it’s not bad or scary, I’m saying it’s worse to be here and a target. Living in Canada is the fucking dream for some people here right now. You’d think this wouldn’t be particularly outrageous to say, and yet.
That stuff isn’t happening here (yet) because we’re fighting in ways that you refused to for the last decade. Even then, that fight involves sacrificing our economy which will cause all forty million of us to suffer and possibly facing outright military invasion. Apparently that’s worth belittling us for. Fuck you.
If you’ve ever wondered how you’d treat a trans person living in an oppressive dictatorship, now you know.
Honestly cannot emphasize enough how deranged it is to say that “hey, living under this is worse than living next to it” is somehow belittling you.
Edit: also, the hilarity of doing this in a community with a giant rainbow banner in the sidebar isn’t lost on me.
Whose
I couldn’t read this because I’m done giving nuance to simpletons
Take a look in the mirror, you literally commented on a post mocking pro-Palestine protestors for not voting for the Democrats and voting for Stein when, as always, it’s up to the parties to bring in the voters and not feel entitled to votes because “oh but that person is worse bro!”
But I wouldn’t expect an American to know how the right to vote how you want works. Democrats failed in not listening to their base and instead listened to monied interests from Israel, and therefore lost votes from people who dared to think that bombing innocent civilians and toddlers was bad.
Shilling for Stein. You lost 100% of your credibility
How was they shilling for Stein? Seems to me they were equating the fact that he’s mad Americans didn’t get out and vote with a past post of your where you expressed frustration that other Americans got out and voted for Stein.
If I had to guess they didn’t want anyone voting Stein either. As Canadians we just wanted you guys to just show you learned after 2016. Forgive us if we’re a little mad considering all of the “51st state” threats that we’re forced to listen to daily up here. Do you know how frightening it is to have to think every day for months that you could be invaded by one of the worlds 2 superpowers? We’re mad up here right now, and hearing Americans say “yeah well what about what WE’RE going through” when we didn’t even have a say in this bullshit, is just very, very annoying.
Missing the point entirely, typical American.
Oi. You. YOU. I like you. And I like what you’re saying.
We get it, you’re bigoted and aren’t curious. Which I’m sure you’d claim are only American traits.
What credibility? That of random canuck talking shit he doesn’t know about on social media? I don’t think it’s that huge of a loss.
DC is in the US however.
Yes, I’m not saying it shouldn’t be boycotted. I’m contesting the idea that the cab driver got what he voted for.
If only that were true, my friend. But it’s not, as you must know. Remember 2000? Disenfranchisement? Redistricting? The electoral college? … But go on, blame the victims. Meh.
I haven’t gotten what I voted for in twenty years.
How can you hate a whole country full of people many of whom didn’t vote for any of this shit. Wild
I can be just as upset at the ones that didn’t care enough to vote as I can at the ones who voted for this.
But none of them are Lemmy’s demographic.
*Dulles airport is in Virginia, not DC
That’s like saying the New York Giants play in NJ
It’s about 8 miles from the stadium to midtown.
It’s about 26 miles from Dulles to DC.
Toronto’s main international airport is in Mississauga, about 17 miles (28km) from downtown Toronto.
It’s pretty normal for metropolitan areas to span more than one state, and many municipalities, served by a single international airport that is in the suburbs of that major city.
The point is that if you’re flying international in or out of DC, IAD is literally your closest option. And if you’re flying there, it’s probably because you’re visiting DC and not some Civil War battlefield in rural Virginia. Functionally speaking, it’s DC’s airport.
My daily commute?
It may be located in Virginia, but it’s the closest international airport and is on the DC metro system. If things are slow at Dulles, it means people aren’t flying to DC.
Does DC have an airport?
No, Reagan National is just across the Potomac from DC and also in Virginia.
There’s Ronald Regan Washington National (DCA) but it’s not an international airport, so only has domestic flights, and isn’t as big.
And, you know, also in Virginia.
I love how even the airport code is like “let’s pretend it’s DC”
