• Pharceface@lemm.ee
    17·
    7 hours 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.

  • grandpaST@lemmy.world
    25·
    13 hours 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%.

    • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 hour 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…

    • Bronzie@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      7 hours 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

      • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        14 hours ago

        Thanks. We’ve been through worse, just not in my lifetime. I feel bad for the effects America has on the rest of the world. IMO the US should be a group of smaller countries. But then we’ve still got China and Russia, so I dunno. I just wish people all over didn’t let so many assholes be in charge - but that’s always been a problem.

        • xeekei@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          5 hours ago

          I actually am an EU-federalist mostly because big countries exist, and I’d rather be one than be bullied by one.

  • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈@lemmy.world
    31·
    17 hours 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
      9·
      15 hours 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
        4·
        7 hours 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!

  • madjo@feddit.nl
    201·
    17 hours ago

    I feel bad for the Olympic organizers. Good luck luring tourists to the Olympics.

    • Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca
      11·
      14 hours ago

      Fuck em. The Olympics are now the ultimate corporate show because of American influence. Best to die anyway as they certainly aren’t a show of amateur sport any longer and haven’t been for decades. It’s a major cash grab for a few wealthy sponsors, advertisers and IOC committee members more than a place for “underrepresented” sport to have a competitive international arena.mot to mention at all the pro athletes who ruined the concept by attending.

    • kreskin@lemmy.world
      4·
      14 hours ago

      Love olympic athletes and the sport of it, loathe the perennial corruption in the IOC (olympic comittee).

  • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    127·
    23 hours 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.

        • lepinkainen@lemmy.world
          11·
          18 hours ago

          Russia is full of cool architecture and art.

          But fuck the current (last 25 years) regime with a rusty crowbar. I’m not stepping a single foot in there.

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    18 hours ago

    I wonder how low it will go. I was tentively planning a holiday trip to New York and another to a conference in Chicago. Both of which are totally off the cards having seen the horror stories of people having their phones searched, refused entry and even being detained for extended periods without justification.

    Instead, I think I’m going to finally make a long wished trip to Canada.

    I do feel sorry for those working in the US tourism and hospitality industry. It’s hardly well paid work and often filled by new migrants and the young / students. It won’t start recovering until the craziness of ICE abates but it’s the sort of damage that is fast to take place and takes a long time to heal once it’s reversed - and a reversal isn’t even on the cards for the foreseeable future.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
    32·
    19 hours ago

    I’m worried of traveling outside of the US because that means I have to come back in through the borders again and be subjected to invasive searches

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
    46·
    20 hours 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
      14·
      19 hours 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.

  • wirebeads@lemmy.caEnglish
    1001·
    23 hours 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.

    • HowAbt2morrow@futurology.todayEnglish
      522·
      22 hours ago

      I think you can actually get sent to jail in Canada for a telling a bad joke, but I could be wrong and that’s not at all the point. You’re right, Canada’s vastness and diversity of the people and places is a true blessing.

      • HowAbt2morrow@futurology.todayEnglish
        21·
        22 hours ago

        Mike Ward, a Quebec comedian, was ordered to pay a fine of $42,000 for jokes about Jeremy Gabriel, a disabled singer, after a human rights tribunal ruling. Ward appealed and eventually won his case in the Supreme Court, which ruled that his jokes did not breach Quebec’s Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. Despite the financial penalties, Ward was not imprisoned.

        Ok, not jail.

            • RidderSport@feddit.org
              101·
              19 hours ago

              If it’s only a joke possibly none. If it is slander quite a few, but listing the nuances of the decades of weighting freedom of speach (and press) against the freedom of privacy and human dignity is way too much for a comment

      • Revan343@lemmy.ca
        61·
        21 hours ago

        We have the best jokes in Canada. Tell a bad joke? Straight to jail. Tell a joke that’s too good? Believe it or not, also jail

        • huppakee@lemm.ee
          3·
          20 hours ago

          Don’t know why but the last few years when someone says they have the best anything I get super sceptical and start disliking this person for no further reason. Nothing personal I guess.

            • huppakee@lemm.ee
              3·
              18 hours ago

              I have seen most of it and i know you’re not meaning to sound like Trump but I can’t help to hear his voice in my head as soon as I see ‘we have the best …’

              • Revan343@lemmy.ca
                5·
                18 hours ago

                The quote is someone from a dictatorship, so it kind of is meaning to sound like Trump, or rather like the general type of shitbag that Trump is.