no foreigners in mai country yeeha!
Why is tourism down?
Music to my ears.
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
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.
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 was there two weeks ago. Expected a huge pain in the ass getting in and out.
It was a ghost town.
Ya get what ya vote for.
If only that were true, my friend. But it’s not, as you must know. Remember 2000? Disenfranchisement? Redistricting? The electoral college? … But go on, blame the victims. Meh.
DC voted 90%+ for Harris. There’s almost no chance he voted for this.
Sorry, it’s been ten years of this. I’m kinda done with giving nuance to Americans.
Harsh? Maybe, but when even the Democrats are caving in to Trump’s demands for fuck all reason, I’m just done caring about what the thoughts of people down South are.
Literally been told by “left-wing” Americans that my thoughts and opinions on their politics don’t matter even with the bullshit going on, and all I can think of is how I as someone over the border wouldn’t have to fucking care if they treated this guy like the fucking threat they supposedly see him as rather than do nothing more than tell people to vote as if that’s some big fucking accomplishment.
If getting out to vote is supposedly all that people could have done against this and nothing else (their words and actions, not mine), then yeah, ya get what ya vote for.
I’m kinda done with giving nuance to Americans.
Exactly the kind of sentiment the people in power making these batshit decisions want. They want people making vapid generalizations, they want people reacting instead of thinking. Acting out against each other instead of working together.
You’re sick of this shit? We have to fucking live it. You want to give up? Fine. But don’t blame others when things don’t get better, while you sit on your high horse and the world burns around you. Cause it sure as fuck isn’t limited to the US, it’s just easier to ignore everything but because the US when they’re falling so far from where most people there thought they were.
Oh get over yourself. You people swear you’re fighting the good fight by thinking. That’s the whole problem. All anyone does is think, no action. Then it’s shocked pikachu face.
To people all over the world, ignore this type of bleating. This is the same rhetoric the dems use and thanks to them we’re now the dumb reich.
I’ll rephrase it for you: You get what you don’t resist. Also known as: History is made by the people who show up. The crux of the issue is that when it mattered, most people in America didn’t show up (and no, I’m not talking about election day). Americans collectively share responsibility for not showing up, and nothing is going to change until they decide to show up. It’s that simple.
I ain’t the one giving up, I’ve hardly bought a single U.S. made product at the store since this nonsense started, and this entire ordeal has invigorated me to get more involved with my community and organizations that stand for the causes I believe in. I take a look at how voters and party members down south act for the most part on BOTH sides of the aisle, and the big conclusion I constantly come to is how Americans just seem to have a knack to give up on anything that supposedly matters to them.
I can go on all day about things that have happened over the years that have led me to that conclusion, but quite frankly it’s a lost cause if it takes someone outside borders to explain politics within them, assuming that people will even care or respect what people have to say outside borders to begin with.
Now imagine how much worse it is actually being here and being one of the targeted groups.
Like someone who’s home is under threat of annexation?
I couldn’t read this because I’m done giving nuance to simpletons
Take a look in the mirror, you literally commented on a post mocking pro-Palestine protestors for not voting for the Democrats and voting for Stein when, as always, it’s up to the parties to bring in the voters and not feel entitled to votes because “oh but that person is worse bro!”
But I wouldn’t expect an American to know how the right to vote how you want works. Democrats failed in not listening to their base and instead listened to monied interests from Israel, and therefore lost votes from people who dared to think that bombing innocent civilians and toddlers was bad.
Shilling for Stein. You lost 100% of your credibility
Missing the point entirely, typical American.
We get it, you’re bigoted and aren’t curious. Which I’m sure you’d claim are only American traits.
DC is in the US however.
Yes, I’m not saying it shouldn’t be boycotted. I’m contesting the idea that the cab driver got what he voted for.
I haven’t gotten what I voted for in twenty years.
Did anyone in DC vote Trump?
Small point of clarification but Dulles is in Northern Virginia not DC because there’s no room for an airport that size in the District.
Now, the Cabbie from OP could easily live in DC, Virginia or Maryland, all of which were won by Harris.
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DC gets three electoral votes for presidential elections; it’s Congress in which they’re not represented.
And they vote super blue. In 2024, they voted 90.28% for Harris
https://electionresults.dcboe.org/election_results/2024-General-Election
(Note that the “delegate to the house” on that site is a non-voting member. They do not having voting representatives in the house or senate)
Incorrect. DC, while not having senators or representatives, still has 3 electoral votes for president, due to the 23rd amendment.
That’s not true since the 23rd amendment was passed in 1961
