As a Canadian, I won’t be travelling to the Republic of Gilead anytime soon. That country is becoming worse by the minute.
And since Americans think I’m Latino (I’m not), I don’t want to be shipped to El Salvador.
I’m thinking of visiting Montreal for beer. Crossing North from Vermont… y’all gonna kick my ass before I can spend that glorious USD $$ ?
As a fellow American, we really don’t need any help looking bad at the moment, so you can stop now.
You seem to confuse Canadians for Americans.
shipped to El Salvador.
I’m white as hell, but with the comments I make on the orange clown I’ll be shot into orbit in nothing more than a speedo (only because nudity is for the us a no ! no !! no !!! no !!! no !!! no way)
“I don’t use social media, and I don’t have an email.”
What’s Lemmy?
News feed with a comment section
It’s a social medium. It’s not the idea of it that’s shitty, it’s the prevalent platforms.
Well you can of course do that. Then if it discovered that you’ve lied on an entry form, you’ll be denied entry forever.
Or malicious compliance: only share porn accounts… with a wink.
And then they deny you access for being a freak. You still dont win and are out the money for your tickets and have to buy return trip off date at your expense. Or get shipped to gitmo.
Social media accounts. Shares 16 different fetlife accounts.
Trying to isolate the country from what used to be our allies, then take away all our rights and turn this degrading shithole into North Korea where the citizens are law bound to kiss their “leaders” ass and pretend it doesn’t fucking stink.
krasnov is adhering to PUTINS wishes.
Whether or not the states are being puppeted by Russia holding cards in the form of blackmail, this is exactly the kind of thing they would do to weaken the states
its is the foundation of geopolitics that russia uses.
Don’t come here is the message they’re sending. The US is closed for business.
I am surprised the tourism industry is taking this so well. I mean Trump and company are literally doing anything they can to kill it off.
Sounds like taliban/fascist strategy: keep people apart and make everyone hate you so you can then claim you’re embattled because everyone rejects you.
They are learning from the Saudis and UAE
World cup season
it comes with the territory. Working in U.S. tourism occaisionally means eating an inordinate amount of shit.
dont know who has to hear this but it’s ok to lie to the government.
That is false. Lying to federal agents, investigators, or officials can land you in a world of shit. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 for details.
https://legalclarity.org/18-u-s-c-1001-false-statements-and-federal-penalties/
In context I think they mean morally
Oh, man. Anyone else remember how Republicans used to threaten to exercise their 2A rights in response to filling out a basic census report?
Yeah. I miss the days when those folks were considered the standard for “Conservative values”. They were practically antifa back then.
Turns out the guns were never about defending themselves against an authoritarian government.
Nothing makes them talk about gun control faster than minorities arming.
Mine are. ICE just isn’t in my area yet.
Current contents of the shell don’t say much about past contents of it.
it is, and always was, about killing brown people.
lol the World Cup is gonna be yuge success bigly
“why are the canadian matches so much more populated compared to ours?”
Surely FIFA fans won’t put up with an incredibly oppressive country
Showing up at the airport with my file cabinet full of old memes.
Dear lord!!! Just tell me what you don’t wanna have, it’s way shorter!
Oh wait … you can’t even pay me to go there! Would an employer demand me to go there, I’d quit on the spot.
reason #2 why I would never visit that country
(#1 is the mass shootings and gun mania)
(tbh the only thing I’d want to visit to begin with are the giant sequoia in California)
How… how much gun violence do you think actually happens here?
There’s a lot by number, and that’s a serious fucking issue, but the US is also massive. It’s not a regular or frequent danger of normal life here.
Even those numbers are pumped up by the fact that suicide by gun is counted in the exact same “gun violence” statistics as gang violence, and the “school shootings” statistics include all from the “gun violence” stats that occur within a certain radius around, regardless of when it happened (summer break, middle of the night, etc) or if it was any danger to students.
News overfocuses on shit like that because it pulls eyes and clicks, and therefore ad revenue.
Again, it is a serious fucking problem, but it’s not the kind of thing you’re going to experience in daily life or as a tourist.
Mass shootings are still proportionally a lot more common than in similar countries:
There were 109 public mass shootings in the United States and 35 public mass shootings in 35 other economically and politically comparative countries between 2000 and 2022. The United States makes up 33 percent of the combined population of these 36 countries; however, it also accounts for 76 percent of public mass shooting incidents and 70 percent of victim fatalities in these countries. (source)
The USA has about 5 times the general (non-suicide) homicide rate compared to the UK.
Add to that the 20 times higher gun ownership rate between USA and Scotland, plus the mental health crisis and extreme political polarisation, and I would rather just not be there, you know 🤷
Perfectly valid, and thanks for not just jumping on the US bad dogpile and instead citing some stuff.
I’m just speaking up because I’ve seen a lot of people online from outside the US running with this idea that gun violence is like, a daily occurence that every US citizen deals with regularly, when that’s so fucking far from the reality.
Yeah, things are a powder keg over here lately and the accessibility of firearms doesn’t help, but I’ve met only one person in my almost 35 years of life who’s ever been held at gunpoint and they’re the only person I know who has ever been through any form of gun violence.
There’s plenty of reasons to avoid this place for a good long while unfortunately, but I feel like the gun danger has been overblown.
Thanks for sharing your experiences, it’s definitely good to hear daily life is not as scary as it may seem from news coverage.
You should travel. It will open your eyes to the shit going on in America that apparently you Americans think is “normal”.
I have and do, likely more than you. Thanks for patronizing!
That doesn’t change my point, that the danger of gun violence is a problem, but is considerably made out to be worse than the reality by the media.
Like, we have states larger than some European countries. If you took the reporting on all the bad shit happening over the equivalent space/population amount in Europe it would be pretty fucking harrowing as well.
I’ve known multiple people fall into a life of constant anxiety due to overexposing themselves to the media. Convinced that every city was a fucking gun violence warzone. That horrible things were happening all the time. They didn’t know anyone who knew anyone who had experienced the things they were convinced were regular horrible occurences. And they knew more than one person (mutual friends) that worked and lived in the US city with the highest homicide rate at the time. None of those people had been even in the vicinity of gun violence.
I’ve been around for nearly 35 years, and I enjoy talking with people. I’ve met only one single person who had been a victim of gun violence, in that they were robbed at gunpoint while working nights at a gas station in a rough area.
There are fucking studies about this shit that are over 15 years old that show that exposure to news media back then caused people to ridiculously overestimate the frequency of crime (and especially violent crime). News has only become more emotionally charged since.
I’m not saying America is some amazing place. I’m just saying that the news would have you believe that almost everyone here has had a gun violence experience, or that visitng the US is unsafe because of gun violence, when that’s not the case.
So, why then are the statistics of dead, murdered school children so much higher than anywhere else in the world? I just googled, and there are 4300 child gun deaths in US every year, about 3600 in school shootings. That’s an apalling number, and the fact you guys don’t try to restrict guns, is even more apalling imo. For general gun deaths…"The U.S. has significantly higher gun death rates than most other developed nations, ranking as an outlier among high-income countries, though lower than some Latin American nations. While the U.S. rate is substantially higher than places like Canada, Australia, and European countries, it’s lower than countries with extreme violence like El Salvador or Venezuela, but its overall firearm mortality is in the top percentiles globally. " USA has third world statistics, and while 3rd world countries do have a lot of gun violence, they have almost zero school shootings… I’m not trying to be patronising, but it sounds as if you have a somewhat sheltered existence. To the rest of the normal and decent world, guns are restricted to those who have a need, and are demonstrably sane. USA is open slather, with no public psych care available, and you guys think this is normal. YOU are the outliers, and your cowardly politicians are owned by the gun lobby, so it perpetuates. Sane people see how fucking stupid this is, even as you deflect the problem to the media, and try to minimize it. The statistics say that you are wrong, and your children are paying for it.
I don’t know what to tell you beyond what I’ve already said.
I’m not denying that it’s a serious goddamn problem. I have acknowledged that in every single comment I’ve made about this. Please stop insisting that I’m saying otherwise.
Once again, I am only saying that despite the high numbers, it is not just some ever present part of life over here to the degree that every American, or even a majority, has experienced gun violence. Everyone from the outside seems to think that’s true, but it’s insanely, laughably not. The quite overwhelming majority of Americans have not experienced gun violence, and won’t within their lifetime.
Our population number is roughly equivalent to 3/4 of the entire European Union’s combined population. Any of our numbers relating to people are going to look high unless you bear that in mind.
Relax there’s plenty of other reasons to not visit your shithole country
Yeah, hence why I didn’t say anything to counter anything else, or that it was a good place to visit anytime soon.
Got any other mindblowing facts for us?
If this shit passes, the EU should apply the same rule and when we find a fucking MAGAt, stamp “Entry Denied and Fuck Off!”
nah, that’s what that negativity wants. making that oil slick bigger.
People, PLEASE stop coming to America. The government doesn’t want you here. Also, it’s not safe at all.
If the earning reports of hotel REITs are anything to go by that is exactly what’s happening.
Make Murica Great Again or something…
So fucking annoying of articles to be like “this was published on Tuesday by the federal register and is open for comments” only to not provide a link.
What’s social media?
This is, technically
Isn’t this more of a messaging board? I don’t think messaging boards are social media.
That would fly well, as a defense in court. Social media are what they say are social media.
Tbh I’m not sure. Someone just said once that Reddit is so I kinda thought that made sense at the time.
There is definitely more B’s on something like Facebook, I’d agree.
An online message board is a type of social media yes. The Wikipedia definition seems solid:
“Social media are new media technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks.”
Thanks for sharing. I still question it though due to it wasn’t called that before till MySpace became so big and popular. Message boards been around since the 90s, some would say late 80s depending on your perspective. Or is a message board one community with multiple topics?
What’s “US tourism”?
Something that existed until the beginning of 2025.
And what’s the deal with airline food?
What
Is up
With that?
