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fully expecting the Trump administration to try to shut down Dropput
Trump has made it unsafe to travel there anyway. Anybody planning to go to the Untied States is a fool, just like people who visit North Korea
I think all this news about people seeming arbitrarily being detained by ICE is already making people want to steer way clear of anything US right now.
I mean I live here. So I'm just trying to boycott all conservative companies and refuse to travel to any red state.
I live here too and I’m all for it.
This is one of the best thing that I think can happen as a united front against that fascist stooge in the White House. And while I’m doubtful it’ll do much on a small scale, if everyone participated- this would be devastating enough for those hurt by it to actually do something.
Considering European tourists keep getting detained there should be a travel ban in place until this administration is gone. If nothing changes within the next 3 months travel here could become a death sentence. The Alien enemies act allows him to send people to EL Salvador without due process. You've seen those videos and pictures. It will be on your country to get you out. Our courts are struggling to even get people back despite the fact that we are not at war so he cannot legally (lmao imagine a felon actually following the law) do that.
Don't risk your life to come here, and if there's a problem with your immigration status self deport. This country is going to be destroyed at this point.
Not just any prison. It's a mega-prison.
Imagine coming to America and they just throw you in their slavery system.
Don't catch you slippin now
This is America
I support the action and thoughts, but doesn't this play into the jingoism already on display and abate any further cultural interaction?
I want there to be a way to hurt the administration while opening the eyes of the decieved population.
My only complaint about that is it'd be an easy thing for the Trumpet propaganda machine to spin.
This is stupid.
He doesn't care, because he doesn't have to care.
So long as he has his violent inbred redneck base, which he has to the death right now, he will paint any and all protests as proof to them that the evil libtard eurocucks are just angry that America is standing up to them for once.
There is literally nothing you can do to get through to the core of his base, and it's just large enough that he can ignore everything else, which is the only thing he learned in his first term, you only need 32% to win.
I don't know if getting through to his core base matters - they are and always will be a lost cause. But people should protect themselves and Americans should feel the pain economically, from the top to the bottom.
I think we need a proper schism, the only way we got them under control last time was with a civil war, but personally kicking out all the vile southern trash sounds like the best possible outcome for everyone.
We can live in a civilized country, and they can wallow in their own shit raping their sisters, ok obviously that doesn't work out for their women but we can start an underground railroad to funnel them to the real world.
It's not necessarily about changing anything. It's a matter of safety for those visiting.
The coasts are still fairly safe, but I see your point.
I personally sent my family to Europe last year, they're citizens but our child is interracial, and being brown I know exactly what that means wrt the absolute subhuman monsterous filth in the south.
Seeing all the stories of European tourists detained by ice despite their papers in good order, it's going to be the easiest advice to follow.
I'm an American living in Europe for almost 10 years and haven't been stateside since like 2018. I've been homesick a lot recently, but I'm trying to come to terms that there's a real chance I'm never going back.
Hate to break it to you, but your "home" no longer exists.
Exactly. That's what I heard from people who lived abroad a long time. While you're away, the country of origin changes and after a while you're homesick for a place that only exists as a memory.
Your better off where you are
As an American, I support this. Do not come here. Not only to send a monetary message, but because I genuinely don't feel like tourists are safe. ICE and DHS have gone off the rails, and nobody should risk their lives to visit what little beauty we have left.
The country itself is beautiful, a friend of mine visited last year and he felt you , as a nation, all were very nice, caring, even the police... The photos he brought back were breathtaking...
You are going to get out of that stump when the country wakes up from the shock, I know it. but for now it's the unknown and most of you are still in shock or(worse) still infatuated with American exceptionalism.
I appreciate your kind words and optimism. I sure hope we do! Trump's next sale will be of all our public lands and beauty to the highest bidders for oil or development. I hope before that happens, we do something.
Exactly: Forget woke, just wake up!
As an American, I'm certainly not planning to visit any time in the near future.
Way ahead of you, Robert