If are thinking about coming to the U.S. this summer for vacation, please do not. Things are bad here. Worse than the news is letting on, even. PLEASE don’t come here. Things are only going to get worse this summer.
^— it’s worse than the news is letting on.
Oh no! I was agreeing, not correcting :D I didn’t even realize the typo was there
I know you weren’t correcting me, but I went ahead and fixed it anyway :)
Dont worry I’m not going to the USA even if I’m paid for it.
My boss asked me to head our international exchange student program, which includes traveling with groups of students, and my acceptance was conditioned by not having to go to the US.
Is it worse then Lemmy filtered news lets on? (Edit: just an honest question. News here is pretty negative, I just wonder if the lived experience is even worse)
Depends on where you are in the country currently.
And cheap hotels are a result of it. My daughter stayed in a really nice hotel during weekender recently. I’ve been looking around for a few days and may do a actual trip soon. Thanks trump for destroying those people’s lives so I can have a nice vacay this year. /s < sorta
Good. Dont come here. This country and the people are so messed up. They need a wake up call.
Was actually gonna plan a visit for 2027. Obviously won’t now.
Much of this 2025 number is even people who probably bought their trip sometime last year (as I guess, on average, people plan their trips at least 6 months ahead?) I wonder what the impact will be during the end of 2025 and next year.
If the world doesn’t have a major depression there will not be an impact on the areas you wish there were. They will use it to destroy blue states. They’ve checkmated us. We need our allies to understand what is happening and react already.
I do what I can for blue states and liberal values and institutions - but I’m absolutely not travelling to a country ruled by idiots who hate me and might throw me in a cell for no reason. As if I’d want to stay in their version of USA permanently anyway…
I used to think I might become a snowbird, but since 2016 I found the US visibly declined every year, and that accelerated sharpy during COVID and of course far more so now. Needless to say I’m not going in the short term, and I’m not hopeful the country will still exist in the long term.
That’s what Mexico is for. And the food is better.
I’d prefer a retirement destination with a statistically insignificant chance of being murdered or kidnapped. Costa Rica is much higher on my list than Mexico.
It’s not that bad.
The US is big and very diverse. There’s something for everyone here, and you can do your part to make change.
Not only tourism. Scientists are cancelling conference attendances of fear they‘ll get harassed or deported (which already happened). It’s such a shame because science need exchange.
They’ll have to hold their conferences somewhere where they’re safer.
Republicans are actively anti-science and defunding scientific research wherever they can, so they won’t care.
Just had a prominent colleague return from a conference in Italy. He was stopped at the border and questioned for several hours, making him miss his flight.
And he’s getting a lawyer and suing them right?
And don’t come back with some type of bs about how is he supposed to do that? I keep hearing from literally everybody.
Trump sues everyone in this country. You could sue anyone for anything sue them do something anything. Literally anything is better than nothing - write a fucking article! I keep hearing about everyone’s fucking friends. I don’t care about your fucking friend. Where are they? Why aren’t they fucking writing something? Why aren’t they doing altering? Literally anything with their position they have that’s much higher than the people I’m working with now who are attempting to help and they’re literally artists and people that work in grocery stores and retired folks meanwhile, scientists are getting stopped at the border and their friends are and telling us this bullshit while I don’t see any first hand accounts barely and when I do, they are just on social media!
They have power in their position where the fuck are they? Why aren’t they fucking telling everybody? Why aren’t they fucking suing them? Do something, anything, just do something!
Then they’re cowards. They’re already bowing to fascism and yeah, I’m going to say it straight up. They’re fucking cowards and they should be called out for It. If you’re fucking leaving the country if you’re afraid to speak up and you have actually something that’s worth saying if you have some way to attempt to stop this and you do nothing out of fear you’re a fucking coward.
I’m just gonna say this we’re all going to die so quit pretending like you won’t if you have something that will help other human beings and you are too afraid to use it. Fuck you you piece of fucking shit. You cowardly piece of shit. You will deserve what you get.
Foreigners have no obligation to come to the US. Them not coming and not spending cash here is another crack in the dam that can help lead to the flood.
Organizers have no obligation to hold events with an international audience in the US. Them spending that cash in a foreign land deprives the US of revenue and likewise is another crack in the dam.
Besides, this regime in DC is actively attacking science as a whole to force their false narratives onto the public.
I’m happy because this will hurt Florida’s crappy economy the most.
Florida is a shitty place to visit anyways, it’s all mosquitos.
Mosquitos interrupted by daily rain and a hurricane or two every year.
Maybe people will finally stay the fuck out of that state.
The only reason you should come to America is because you’re picking me up to take me out of America.
Send nudes.
You don’t want them.
Then why should I pick you up?
I’m funny.
Sorry. I only have an opening for a sex slave right now.
I’m a wage slave, that’s almost as bad.
They don’t need to be your nudes.
If it will help me emigrate then here:
Mmmmnnff Grade-A teets!
I’ll send all the nudes if you can secure me a visa and a job in Europe.
I feel like if they saw me naked I would be barred from entering the E.U.
America First Policy
I dont think thats the issue buddy. Its the “America is now Fascist” Policy that makes people not want to visit.
i’d say it’s both: why would you risk being detained at the border, potentially be subject to general abuse when you’re in the country because you’re “foreign”, detained in the country for… who the fuck knows, AND because america first means your tourism money supports a country actively bullying your home country
You forgot “extrajudicially kidnapped and shipped to a country you’re not a citizen of,” as well.
My question anybody getting taken is
Why would you let anyone take you at all?
They won’t take me from my house alive and I don’t understand how they’re doing it to anyone else. I’ve been told since birth never let a man take me to an unknown place.
Some believe that this is normal. How, I do not know. I’ve been wandering the streets armed for the off-chance I find an ICE raid. At this point I have nothing left to lose, I want to try to kill those masked fucks. I live in a blue state (and there have been ICE raids here) so maybe the police will let me off if I claim I believed it was an illegal gang.
No way the vast majority of humans even know about people being detained at the border. I’ll say that confidently because it’s pretty obvious the amount of humans I interact with on a daily basis. Don’t know shit about shit about shit about shit. Now we got some of them, insisting Proven science like polio vaccines don’t actually work and are making you out to be the asshole if you get a vaccine and go out in public.
I don’t actually think that any human on this planet is any better than that. I would be willing to bet that most human beings know way more about someone like Tiger King or whoever was the latest Netflix special then they do about Politics or anything going on in the world. And this level of bullshit continues because there’s no end to people insisting that it’s perfectly OK to not pay any attention and then they turnaround and insist those same exact people need to go out and vote. The people that don’t know shit the people that don’t pay attention the that don’t fucking know anything are all voting And they think that it’s their damn duty to know nothing and vote.
And if you think any fucking person in any country is any different, you’re gonna be really shocked when you find out how shit we all are. 30% of the world will support fascism. Done. 30% of humans are fucked From the jump. That’s the reality we’re dealing with 30% the vein that continues through all of history. 30% of Humanity are shit. 30% of us are going to drag the rest to hell.
the news in australia is pretty straight up about it… honestly we get about as much trump news as australian politics, and since they detained an aussie everyone has been very wary. i can only assume the same is true for the rest of the world (i watch some UK news media and it seems similar in tone)
i think you’re underestimating the mood outside the US… everyone is aware… not everyone is boycotting (because that’s too hard i guess) but very few people are actively making plans to visit. why would you?
both for self preservation reasons (people are doing this), and for just “fuck you” reasons: never underestimate humanity’s desire to knock the “top dog” down a few pegs especially if it’s for “my tribe” reasons
I think people would visit even if we were fascist. The thing keeping everyone away is the significantly greater than zero chance that you and your family might get picked up by ICE and questioned under duress for several days simply for trying to visit Disney World.
Well, that’s a key part of the fascism. Obviously Europeans vacationing at the House of Mouse didn’t care what the social services were like in the USA, or how affordable homes were, or what Disney employees had unions. But a country like the USA that follows no moral code is not a safe place to be in, period.
Trump is enacting his isolationist worldview through his trade war, and using secret police effort to terrorize and abduct non-citizens. This is going to isolate and ward off foreign business and visitors. No surprise there.
Fear of being held and questioned, fear of getting an unplanned trip to El Salvador, fear of kangaroo court systems…
Yeah, we’ll see. It’s basically expecting the rest of the West to act differently. Maybe they’ll surprise me. However, it’s not like I don’t have perfect examples right off the top my head like France and Roman Polanski for instance. Kinda makes me think that people are shit no matter where they’re at, and they’re gonna visit if they feel like visiting here. If the marketing is good enough, the fascism won’t matter and I would be willing to bet on it.
No, I don’t think that Europeans are somehow better humans than any other human on the planet. We’re all shit and we’re gonna prove that correct.
How bout Americans be their own tourists first then.
Before the trump admin was in, my partner and I were planning a trip to Big Bend in TX with the express goal of not spending any money in Texas. We’re not traveling to any red states for vacations at all for the next 4 years, that’s for damn sure.
We can’t afford it
Let’s fucking go! Keep it up everyone, make people here really see and feel the consequences.
I’m under no illusion that anyone who voted for this will “feel bad” or regret their vote. As we have been seeing the people who voted for this do not regret their decision perse. However, the hate that fuels them will only take them so far. If things get bad enough quick enough they might be able to remember it the next time (if there ever is one). I think the cult following of Trump and their emotional sunk cost fallacy won’t let them see that voting for Trump was a bad idea, but there is a small chance they will recognize and reject it in whoever comes next.
I’m under no illusion the above will actually happen, I just think it’s the best that can be hoped for.
I work with some of those “haters”. They will never blame Trump. Even when their wallets are getting hurt, they will just blame Democrats and the world.
One haters I work with worship Trump and she is an Asian. How ironic
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. As an American, I hope America falls into a depression.
No one alive today has had to live through a depression; I don’t think you really understand what you’re saying
No, those of us in that camp know exactly what we’re asking for.
I hope it ends with a Green New Deal
What a shit situation that they have Americans hoping their own country fails.
I absolutely do not hope for a depression. You will NEVER see small business again. You will NEVER own a house. Our future will be utterly gone.
What we need is what can’t be said.
The Olympics and World Cup should be relocated away from the US.
As much as I agree with don’t go there, the Olympics were in Russia and Brazil not too long ago and the World Cup in Qatar and Russia. If those places were fine (which, from the looks of them, they werent) then the US is still ok to handle them for now.
I see a different pattern of corruption and bribery, including the US.
wrong person
You’re right. I mean, the nazis had the Olympics in Berlin in '36 too, what’s the worst that can happen?
I don’t merely mean for punitive measures, I worry about ICE enforcement against athletes and fans.
Since clearly greed is paramount why deliver the funds and leverage to shake down foreigners? It’s sadly not like they’re beyond common mob tactics.
If I was the IOC I’d be worried about empty seats as well. Fascism is poor for tourism.
Qatar was packed. If people cared they wouldn’t go to the slaver shit hole country YET.
i think that’s also whataboutism though…
those things should not have happened there (qatar in particular had the whole thing of bribery and corruption that afaik had big fallout for FIFA). the fact that they did doesn’t mean that this is okay
The next American Olympics is in 2028, in Los Angeles. HitlerPig should be out of office by then, but if he suspends elections, or does some other wild maneuver to remain in office, most countries in the world will boycott them, and we’ll have an Olympics with mostly just Russia, China, and America.
Term doesn’t end until Jan 2029.
You’re right, I don’t know what I was thinking. The 2028 Olympics will be happening at the peak of the 2028 Presidential election, which will probably be crazy, especially if HitlerPig is trying to run again.
He’s going to want a big, beautiful Olympics, and he’ll be pissed that it will be ruined by European and other countries boycotting it. American athletes, visitors, and viewers should boycott it, too.
it’s a fucking travesty that world pride is happening in DC right now
Grimes is going?!
With all respect - does the lgbtq community respect themselves at all? She’s a fucking fascist!
the LGBTQ community takes every possible opportunity to make themselves mainstream
taking money from corps so they can pink wash and then erasing queer culture from our events because they might lose sponsors because it’s “not family friendly” has basically been the story of every queer event
inviting people that have some name recognition is just an extension of that - they get to pink wash themselves and we get to “appear more centerist”
i’d say some of our LGBTQ community respect ourselves and what we stand for… some of us honestly just want to fit in - which is fine until that means punching down on those of us who want to be who we are because not all of queer culture is family friendly… some of it is about who we love, some of it is about who we fuck, some of it is about kink and fetish and expressing SEXUALITY; not just romance
sorry; tangent
fucking good. we deserve it.
I’m sort of idly curious who President Manbaby is going to blame for this.
It goes without saying that it’ll be someone other than himself - broadly that’s who he blames for everything he fucks up. But I wonder who specifically.
As with many spoiled children, it’s actually sort of perversely amusing to see just how ridiculous his lies might get.
If he doesn’t just ignore the problem my guess is he’ll say people aren’t coming because they’re afraid of MS13 or something. The solution to which is clearly to round up more undesirables.
Another shocker
Nobody knew not pissing off the whole world could be so complicated.
Y’all Qaeda strikes again!
Tourists are a bunch of homos anyway - trump supporters probably
