You must log in or register to comment.
I find conflicting information when I look this up. How true is this claim?
Wow, this must have been Trump’s plan all along to reduce crashes in the DC SFRA! What a genius!
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 should do that.
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.
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.
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.
no foreigners in mai country yeeha!
Why is tourism down?
From: Fuck all of you!.
To: Brother. Can you spare some eggs?.
I was there two weeks ago. Expected a huge pain in the ass getting in and out.
It was a ghost town.
I’m glad to see this wasn’t a fake post to drum up support
My brother was going to attend a huge scientific conference there next month. It was updated to be zoom only this week.
deleted by creator
Want to say good serves them right! But no. America becoming more authoritarian and insolationist is not a good thing for anyone. This situation very scary
I feel so sorry for US Americans. I honestly do.
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.
Yeah, but they could have stopped this by marking a piece of paper, so…
People will be saying the same type of things about Canada soon; how it was our fault for letting our military decline, how we bought so much American product, how we let their culture take us over, how we didn’t cultivate a bigger place for ourselves in the world but were content to live complacent next to a volcano.
For the most part people don’t want the consrant struggle. Just to vote when it’s time, keep up with global events, maybe protest if it’s a big enough issue. But we still need to focus on family and career, fun and rest, peace and quiet.
For Them, the cause is their job, their activities, their meaning. I don’t think most of us realize how big the industry to manufacture consent is. When they have a bill prepared, before it even gets legislated they’re already working on the next step, either how to redo it if it fails or how to build on it if it passes. They don’t sleep, winning is their only purpose.
I just don’t think we can afford to alienate anyone on our side. Telling someone there’s nothing they can do to make something right generally just makes them think they have to look out for themselves.
deleted by creator
They should bring back Transatlantic ferries and cruises where people can bring their cars, trailers, and pallets of personal belongings across the ocean at affordable rates. I guarantee it would be popular at the moment, at least in one direction.
I think currently Freighter travel isn’t allowed for such purposes but it used to be in the USA?
Keep your fucking cars to yourself. We don’t want them here.
They could always send the cars back or leave them behind, I guess, but I was just thinking as a method to make moving to Europe easier for the average american, to load all of their things onto the boat.
You don’t need a car in most of Europe.
Public transit exists in nearly every Eurpean country. It is certainly not great everywhere but it will run miles around anything Americans call public “transit”.
Plus if you intend to migrate you will probably need to transfer your driver’s license which may require a theoretical and/or practical exam.
Yes but many people in America
Own a car
So the cars are going to end up somewhere…
Sell it to pay for the transportation fees, then buy a better, less wasteful one wherever you choose to move.
Just how dense is the average American?
You know what, don’t answer that. We wouldn’t be where we are if the answer wasn’t a thoroughly depressing one.
Reminds me of that George Carlin quote: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
Yeah I said that already, “leave it behind or send it back”
If you’re moving across the world, you should try to sell most bigger stuff and only transport your valuable and more mobile belongings. There is no reason to transport your oven, your sofa or your IKEA wardrobe over several thousand kilometers. Just sell them and buy something local at your destination. That also applies to your car.
deleted by creator
No us cars are just bad. They literally had to ban other cars to save their domestic market.
And since it was america it was thanks to lobbying from chrysler-bens. Aka something we call “corruption” in europe.
I don’t know where ridoro1 is from, but American cars differ from European cars differ quite a bit in their focus. Here’s an image of the two best selling cars in 2022: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWON9QYUUAAGHtd?format=jpg&name=large
American here. Cars that size are a available here, but most of them are getting phased due to people buying crossovers instead. It’s true that if you count sales by vehicle nameplate trucks come out on top, but trucks as a share of market are far outpaced by smaller SUVs.
I totally agree that there is an American preference for larger vehicles than Europe, and that the bigger size often isn’t justified. It’s just not quite as stark as that picture shows.
It could also be that the average American is just fat as fuck and needs the extra space inside.
A full 2/3 of us are obese or overweight. Contrast to just 30 years ago, when most Americans were fairly thin. This ain’t normal, but it’s been normalized.
American cars have been big since the 50s
Music to my ears.
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.
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.
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 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?
Removed by mod
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.
The more working class people leave DC, the happier I will be when the asteroid hits.
deleted by creator
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
