• SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
    11·
    2 days ago

    I wanted to visit before the collapse, but it didn’t work out for multiple reasons.

    Now I’m doubly sad that I didn’t go. Because if I would indeed decide to go now, it would be a coin toss if a random typo in some papers would land me in a gulag

  • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • Pharceface@lemm.ee
    23·
    3 days ago

    I don’t blame anyone, there is no need to personally see the circus that is our country currently. Watch the circus from stands unless you want to be a part of it.

  • wirebeads@lemmy.caEnglish
    108·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • grandpaST@lemmy.world
    35·
    3 days ago

    Those charts are soon going to look a lot worse. I know of many people who had already paid for their vacation before the tariffs were announced, so they went anyway. New bookings for flights from Canada to the U.S. are down over 70%.

    • Bronzie@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      3 days ago

      Yeah I think so too.
      People have always talked about a long weekend in New York or a cruise from Miami.
      Now it’s just dead. No mention of the US at all, other than the blithering baboon.

      Would not want to be a trans atlantic airliner this sunmer

      • CritFail@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 days ago

        At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if you are trans-atlantic, their DEI policy mistakes this for something LGBT-related and you face automatic detention.

    • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      For sure family summer holidays are the sort of thing most people would be planning round about now. The lines at Disney World are going to be shorter this year…

  • katy ✨
    43·
    3 days ago

    i really hope the majority of countries boycott the 2028 games and don’t show up in la.

  • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈@lemmy.world
    36·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      i’m currently in the US supporting a queer minority group with services to provide access to an event to a global audience… i’ve done it every year, and this year i’m here only because i’d promised and it seems awful to that group to walk away

      next year is going to be really hard: my presence here adds value to the economy and in some small way takes away from the boycott, helps to reinforce american centrism and gives advantage to US citizens (they can attend far easier, etc), not to mention im literally taking a risk that i could be detained for weeks and then banned from coming back

      … but on the other hand, if i don’t come am i abandoning the community? am i abandoning a vulnerable group that needs support, and to be shown they’re not alone now more than ever? that globally, queer is normal, fine, valued - that they’re wanted and what’s happening is not normal

      i hate that im having to make these choices, and i hate that i feel bad even for feeling conflicted when im not even living through it

      • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 days ago

        IMO: you are tremendously more vulnerable than I am.

        If you can leave the U.S. into a stable “home base”, you absolutely should.

        From there you can try to use any open source Social groups to continue protesting against Trump.

        Protect yourself above all else. Unless you’ve reached a point in your own “circle of life” that you’re willing to die for the insanity of America’s shit storm.

        I’m at the age and experience I’m willing to die in defense of kind humanity vs. whatever the fuck is imploding in the U.S.

        Best of luck!

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
    49·
    3 days ago

    no shit, dont want to have some border police going through my phone and putting me on detention only to deport me back later

    • cogman@lemmy.world
      18·
      3 days ago

      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.

  • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
    77·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • klu9@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      Straight from Musk’s playbook of business success.

      “I’ve let all the Nazis back on Xitter. Wait! Advertisers! Where are you going?!??”

  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.ukEnglish
    57·
    3 days ago

    “People not coming to the US on vacation will be labelled as foreign terrorists. They’re doing great harm to a tremendous American industry.” - Trump, probably