People, PLEASE stop coming to America. The government doesn’t want you here. Also, it’s not safe at all.
If the earning reports of hotel REITs are anything to go by that is exactly what’s happening.
Make Murica Great Again or something…
Read between the lines… 100 billion dollar bailout coming to aid the tourism businesses affected by the new rules…
His hotels…
Just like the farmer bailout due to the losses incurred from the tariffs
Trying to isolate the country from what used to be our allies, then take away all our rights and turn this degrading shithole into North Korea where the citizens are law bound to kiss their “leaders” ass and pretend it doesn’t fucking stink.
krasnov is adhering to PUTINS wishes.
Whether or not the states are being puppeted by Russia holding cards in the form of blackmail, this is exactly the kind of thing they would do to weaken the states
its is the foundation of geopolitics that russia uses.
Do not visit the US
literally, I let my VISA expire and it was hard because I live on the frontier so I’ll miss out on a lot of things but it is not worth it
last time I needed to cross the border I was detained for an extra hour (not counting the queue) just because I didn’t cross during the pandemic
fuck the US, fuck fascism
I still remember a trip I took with my parents to Vancouver and Seattle. We are from Brazil.
The difference was night and day, especially the infrastructure, landscape, and the appearance of the people who worked there. Seattle felt much more somber and gray.
The only ones who seemed overtly happy were the waitresses, but since these jobs in the U.S. rely heavily on tips, it felt more like forced role-play to get extra money compared to the more down-to-earth Canadian customer service.
Murica, home of hatred and fear. and home of the spoiled. and the greedy. and the devious. and the self endulged. and the (fill in your favourite bad quality here, it 'll fit)
It’s amazing how much the US doesn’t want you to go there, even if it’s just to visit.
Despite all the mediocrity, there are some things to see there, but if that’s the authorities’ attitude (and this here is not the first example of it), yeah, I think I’ll skip.
they really don’t seem to realize there’s an entire world of places out there to see…
It’s also to keep people in.
If this shit passes, the EU should apply the same rule and when we find a fucking MAGAt, stamp “Entry Denied and Fuck Off!”
nah, that’s what that negativity wants. making that oil slick bigger.
The only way a fascist wins is with isolationism. DON’T let Trump who only represents 1 in 4 people keep you away. These clowns from Trump all the way down to ICE will all be either spending lengthy jail sentences or fodder for fusillade.
As a Canadian, I won’t be travelling to the Republic of Gilead anytime soon. That country is becoming worse by the minute.
And since Americans think I’m Latino (I’m not), I don’t want to be shipped to El Salvador.
shipped to El Salvador.
I’m white as hell, but with the comments I make on the orange clown I’ll be shot into orbit in nothing more than a speedo (only because nudity is for the us a no ! no !! no !!! no !!! no !!! no way)
I’m thinking of visiting Montreal for beer. Crossing North from Vermont… y’all gonna kick my ass before I can spend that glorious USD $$ ?
You seem to confuse Canadians for Americans.
As a fellow American, we really don’t need any help looking bad at the moment, so you can stop now.
Been there twice, it was interesting and already shocking in 2008.
You US Americans should visit Europe or live there for a while. Then you can decide to come back or stay but you’ll have at least a reference point in your brain that things can be different and maybe that the US isn’t the greatest country in the world in all fields.
The US is a third-world country that failed upwards
My favourite description: “US is 50 third world countries in a trench coat”.
…wearing a gucci belt
… bought on credit
… after paying off the initial credit by taking a new loan
I dunno, and this sanity check is coming from someone who’s visited over a dozen times and loves it there… EU is not all fun and games, they are going to enforce chat control, apparently bowing to pressure on GDPR, has enforced facial recognition to enter, and right wing parties are growing in multiple countries including the big economic houses: Germany, France, UK. We’re all over here looking at you folks to show us the way and if you blink in your resolve, you’re going to end up where we are.
On a positive note, Drumpf’s policies are hitting a wall of awareness, resistance and resolve. Our recent elections are giving some hope. His pedophile protecting tight grip is loosening it’s hold as his desperately unpopular and catastrophic policies are forcing “masks off” upping of their rhetoric and abusive policies. This shows their real racist nazi agenda to everyone and it’s only dropping their approval. We’re worried they will cook the books next November, but the hope is we can reign in the insanity and undo the damage in the coming decade. It’s going to take that long and we will need to start with our dear friends in Canada).
The EU is now talking about doing what the US was already doing more than a decade ago when Snowden Revelations came out.
And don’t get me started on things like the relative ratios of “death by police” and percentage of people in prision (to mention just the things related to the use of force in policing) between America and Europe.
The EU is at least a decade behind the US in creeping autoritarianism and a lot of that shit has been imported from the US (including the new style far right, which amongst other things was set-up with money from American billionaires which Steve Bannon brought to Europe years ago very openly to “create far right parties” and is ideologically fed by American money using social media which for example paid Cambridge Analitica to use Facebook to fuel Brexit).
In this turn of the Wheel of History, the equivalent of Nazism is spreading out from America.
I agree with you. I’m not saying the EU isn’t doing better on substantially every level like education, social services, policing, well being, worker rights, etc. I’m saying the EU is at risk and it’s it goes beyond just the US and global tech corpratism to authoritarian & oligaritarian influence of (soft and hard) compaigns to shift the EU far right. I am saying I hope the EU can hold on to what they have and push back further!
On a side note, the Nazi’s borrowed a lot of their eugenics from the US and our deeply ingrained racism, so I’m not 100% sure this is new
Right-wing is code for not being part of the ruling party block.
I’ll continue to equate the right wing with far right extremism until they give me evidence to conclude otherwise. You can call that a code for “out of power” if that’s your way of thinking, but it’s not mine and I certainly didn’t use it that way. I believe it’s the reality of the ratcheting overton window for 50 years.
I would agree that far right extremism qualifies as right wing. Trouble is, in Germany the AfD has identical positions as CDU/CSU as of decade or two ago, and both would be considered to be left wing in the US political context. A very left party like BSW was attempted to be smeared to be right wing.
Such labels assigned by the mainstream media have become meaningless, so I would encourage you to look at party programs and their voting patterns in parliaments to gauge where they really stand. I will avoid mentioning the general regression to pre-party times to avoid further confusion.
OK, I’m going to challenge the statement that AfD would be considered left in the US. I’m from the US and I’ve seen their politics and they would defnitely be considered far right in the US sense (or our current “right” which is MAGA in power). I appreciate your point about media labels, though, so everyone should apply critical thinking to those labels for sure.
The EU is fast-tracking the Fourth Reich, so visit it while there’s still time.
Personally I’ve been boycotting travel to the US or even just with a transfer in the US since the PATRIOT act.
Already over a decade ago I very purposefully chose Canada (highly recommended, by the way) for a month vacationing in North America rather than the US.
The writting has been on the wall for this shit ever since they allowed the TSA to start confiscating traveller’s mobile phones and computers way back in Bush’s day - the main difference with the current administration compared to the previous ones is that they’re open about what they’re looking for.
Is this European exceptionalism?
No, I guess Canada and possibly many other countries are similar but I didn’t experience them yet.
and maybe that the US isn’t the greatest country in the world in all fields.
I think that’s why they want our “high value data fields”… ☺️
Shouldn’t be hard for anyone from Europe. The EU already wants to monitor all the social media anyway. Plus age restrictions. The Aussie’s aren’t far behind either. And they have age restrictions now.
Is anyone really surprised by the further restrictions on the free speech by the fascist regime?
What surprises me is how much Americans are willing to take or how self-absorbed and blind they are as to what is happening.
First it was illegal immigrants. Then any immigrants. Now legal visitors, not even immigrants. Next it will be citizens, absolutely guaranteed.
They are already being targeted by the ICE and the government is working on plans to label citizens as domestic terrorists if they oppose the president.
But yeah, I’m sure using the ICE whistles and honking at the Nazi police as they abduct your family and friends is gonna solve the problem.
it’s so tiring to watch people just not realize the natural progression to all of this, like how can you not see it’s gonna be YOU next in a few years when you post on facebook about how you’re disappointed about supreme leader trump’s tax policy and the secret police show up at your door
Americans are incapable of thinking that far ahead. They will literally scoff at any foresight, like the future is unknowable.
I’m an American but alright
Me too 😭
My neighbors heads are firmly wedged all the way up their asses. These old fools act like everything is just fine because the boots aren’t on their necks yet.
they are kept complacent, because they still have a job that pays moderate or well off where they live off of, plus the propaganda of the media keeping them mostly ignorant.
I am surprised the tourism industry is taking this so well. I mean Trump and company are literally doing anything they can to kill it off.
Sounds like taliban/fascist strategy: keep people apart and make everyone hate you so you can then claim you’re embattled because everyone rejects you.
it comes with the territory. Working in U.S. tourism occaisionally means eating an inordinate amount of shit.
World cup season
So what happens when you truthfully state “I don’t use social media”? Or use any that are mainstream?
Seems like a dumb time to me.
Depends on the officer you’re dealing with. There’s multiple stories, from before Trump ever took office, of people being detained for up to a day for saying this or refusing to grant access to their phone. I can only imagine it’s worse now.
You have to prove that you don’t have accounts with the usual suspects. So, to prove a negative. And that obviously makes you suspicious. Oh, and Lemmy would be considered to be social media.
Fascism.
With race-based xenophobia.
