You aren’t supposed to travel into Nazi Germany right as they are setting up the concentration camps. US tourism should be zero if you don’t have family here
The Olympics were held in Germany while Nazis were in power, it’ll be that way here too.
Germany cleaned up Berlin, took down signs, and chilled out somewhat for the Olympics. I don’t know if the current administration is smart enough to do that.
US tourism should be zero, and if you have family here then you should be trying to help them leave.
We see regular articles about the decline in business for American tourism in our part of Canada. There have been some major destination offers of 50-80% off offered to Canadians willing to return and stay at traditional places Canadians visit.
Fuck em. Death to murica.
As an American I can confirm we are absolute trash right now and we’re sealing our fate for at least a generation.
People the world over are going to spend the rest of their lives at the very least having a bad taste in their mouth when America is brought up. Things may “normalize” and regular trade agreements may resume, but trust is broken and that’s long-term.
It’s unbelievably depressing to watch from the inside. The shock of finding out that such a high percentage of your fellow citizens are stupid/racist/hateful is profound.
People the world over are going to spend the rest of their lives at the very least having a bad taste in their mouth when America is brought up
Bud…i have one hell of a revelation for you…
This. Don’t come here for the Olympics. Don’t come here for the World Cup. You could find yourself in a world of shiat for absolutely no reason at all. We’ve got some serious problems here, right now.
I cannot remember a time when you didn’t.
The people downvoting you don’t understand that they’re part of the reason our country keeps doing shit like this. Unwillingness to do some radical self-examination or entertain hard truths about the history of the place they live help ensure that it’ll keep happening. A lot of people can only emote at bad things and refuse to understand how or why they occur.
It’s because they genuinely don’t consider foreigners to be fully humans; they see them as extras in the story of America. That’s why they get so angry at Trump, because he’s treating ‘main characters’ the way America has always treated lesser humans.
Oh it will be generational.
I am Canadian. My kids 12 and 10 are learning to avoid all products and services from 'murica. They’re into it and talking about it with their friends. They will be taught and they will follow through. They already are.
Death to 'murica.
but trust is broken and that’s long-term.
I hope you don’t think anyone trusted America before Trump. You’ve been a scourge on the globe for a long time.
Should we actually get better the long-term broken trust is merited, because if we cannot present a proven way to prevent this from ever happening again then it most certainly will.
Or get labelled as “dangerous criminals”, because of the quota of ICE.
I grew up learning that the communist secret police was bad, because they had to fill out quotas of arrests for crimes, so they just tortured people until they confessed. Often they were executed. Even one of my great-grandfather was sent to a gulag after he was at the wrong place during the 1956 revolution of Hungary, while the other was almost arrested for not wanting to shoot protestors with a machine gun.
We do not specifically hate the US. We fear for our safety and our families with MAGA, Trump, ICE and sadly now, the people we’re supposed to go to for help, the police. .I’ve been visiting the US every 3-4 years since 1994 when ‘fly drive’ holidays were affordable for people aged 21. Havent been since Trump was rising in popularity for election and we were having a chat about it in a restaurant in Orlando. We had not realised just how quickly strangers could get hostile so quickly. Currently, my social media and messages would likely be sufficient to have me disappeared. I am maybe typically of Europeans for my open view of Trump.
I know it’s a total trope, but it isn’t all Americans. Plenty of us are horrified by what’s happening too…
Americans are dumbasses.
Source: I live in the USA
I’m trans, if I ever set a toe in that shithole I’m gonna get shot
Thank gods Europe is still free (at least for now)
They’re not shooting us YET but I’m sure it’s coming. I’m trans and HERE and scared as fuck.
yeah… :((((
take care of yourselves, this is gonna get rough. I’m sticking it out where I am until I have no choice but to get out, and seeing what we can do here to help people relocate to relative safety. I have tentative hope that some states will effectively resist this, at least for now, but no matter where you are it’s definitely time for a flight plan if you can make one.
we may have lost the battle for now, but there’s time still to bolster our communities and survive this. at least I have to hope so.
I won’t even enter American air space for as long as I live. Also, I’m not ever going to buy American products unless I absolutely have to.
Im a Canadian citizen, but was born in Central America. I have tattoos and anti trump memes on my phone. I at least used to tel myself “at leadte if I get arrested and fucked with, the Canadian government will save me”
Then I saw a report about a white Canadian girl who was detained for weeks. And the Canadian government did nothing and let her rot till the Americans released her. So yeah I ain’t going anywhere near the U.S
What is the Canadian government supposed to do about it, invade the US?
It’s not like reasonable negotiation is getting anyone anywhere.
It’s not for me to say what the government should do, im not a diplomat. But I know that ignoring the family and saying nothing about it is not the right response. They should post a travel ban that treats the U.S like North Korea an other “do not travel to for any reason” countries. I for one am done with America and all Americans in general. World would be better off if every American got raptured tomorrow.
What is the Canadian government supposed to do about it, invade the US?
Canadians have already burned down the White House once before, doing it once again might be a good idea.
@JeSuisUnHombre In 2023 I took a trip to Canada from the US via car – at the Canadian border, a nice guy asked me two questions and they waived me through. No guards, no guns, no dogs.
Coming back into the American border? Militarized checkpoint. Black-clothed rifle-carrying agents marching up and down through lines of cars, with dogs. A car next to me with a family inside being stripped down for a search.
Most Americans don’t travel out of country, and thus don’t see this stuff.
@JeSuisUnHombre this: so many Americans have no idea they’re living in a dictatorship and that’s almost the most scary thing of all.
Why are New Zealanders being detained?
Loads of people have been “detained” simply for having anything resembling anti trump sentiment on their personal electronic devices. People from many different countries.
Don’t travel to 'murica. It’s a fascist dictatorship and you do not have rights regardless of your skin color or where your passport is from.
I’m going to go out on a limb and assume its predominantly Maori being detained. Because they’re brown.
Nope. White fuckeras everywhere. Same as the aussies
the US can’t even claim their usual racist shitfuckery, they’re just goddamn insane
Canadians too.
@Glitterbomb @Dogyote They’re detaining absolutely anybody they think might not be partial to the regime. They demand you make your social media pages public so they can see if you posted anything critical, they’ve sent people back for things as simple as memes. Plenty of the people they’re sending back are their exact racial preference because *the chance to exercise power* is the draw to this sort of work (though that often goes hand in hand with racism, when overreach must be more selective.)
Which part of ICE=lunatic racist clueless lawless unaccountable goon squad personal trump army did you miss?
I’m guessing it’s because of their cool accents and off the wall sense of humor
There is nothing worth coming here for. This place is not a place of honor… nothing valued is here.
Some of us are absolutely aware, but powerless to make any change. I’m speaking up to family who only watch the propaganda put out by the right wing machine. But I’m mainly wonder how to sell my house, and get my ex wife and son out of here… and from there… where? What would I do for work?
I realise your post is rhetorical, but I am sprinkling some knowledge here for those that need it; fwiw, here are good places to start looking for opportunities abroad:
- https://visasponsor.jobs/api/jobs
- look for immigration short lists per country, e.g. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list - note there’s also unskilled work included in these, notably carers on the separate (see link) healthcare list
- https://europa.eu/eures/portal/jv-se/home?lang=en
- short stays/stepping stones/staying mobile:
Maybe it may help someone…
can’t do the UK because I’m trans, but I’m looking at staying in France for a spell at least. thanks for the links!
Hi, I’m french and, while I would genuinely love for my country to be a safe space for trans people, I feel like I should warn you: things here are not as bad as in the US but the far right is progressing real fast and I’m quite afraid that they’ll pass in 2027. We (the leftists) are fighting the best we can but the media and our government are definitely inclined towards the far right already. Feel free to save my handle to get in touch if you move to France, I’ll be happy to help and share some info and advice. Best of luck
As someone who lived in France for a couple of years a decade ago, in sorry to hear that. I loved it there and would move back to France in a heartbeat if it was feasible.
Some of us are aware and outside the US and basically expect to become stateless prisoners in El Salvador the next time we try and enter the country.
Any American who has crossed the border in the last couple of years does know, and the CBP were cracking down even during Biden’s admin.
That is why many USians are also not traveling abroad during Trump’s regime, because we would have to come back in through those same checks under his admin.
I mean, for those USians who have plans to come back…
