Wonder if this is a nationwide thing or if DC is hit particularly hard since it’s the heart of the evil empire.
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.
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.
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.
/s
They asked for everything they’re getting.
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 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.
As a Canadian, I couldn’t be happier.
Maybe we can annex some of these poor should to a country that cares.
Mostly.
The more working class people leave DC, the happier I will be when the asteroid hits.
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i’m terrified of what the government will do when world pride comes to dc in a few months </3
Likely they will try and make it illegal on as many levels as they can.
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
Got nothing to offer
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.
well yeah, but, see, they also did…
reads like 20 books on them, including one of the mildler ones called “the devil’s chessboard”
some moderately evil or plausibly disastrous-but-inept stuff too. so, you know, maybe don’t talk that way about them.
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.
Yeah, who names an airport terminal after someone as awful as…“Harvey Milk?”
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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?
no foreigners in mai country yeeha!
Why is tourism down?
From: Fuck all of you!.
To: Brother. Can you spare some eggs?.
*Dulles airport is in Virginia, not DC
It may be located in Virginia, but it’s the closest international airport and is on the DC metro system. If things are slow at Dulles, it means people aren’t flying to DC.
That’s like saying the New York Giants play in NJ
It’s about 8 miles from the stadium to midtown.
It’s about 26 miles from Dulles to DC.
Toronto’s main international airport is in Mississauga, about 17 miles (28km) from downtown Toronto.
It’s pretty normal for metropolitan areas to span more than one state, and many municipalities, served by a single international airport that is in the suburbs of that major city.
The point is that if you’re flying international in or out of DC, IAD is literally your closest option. And if you’re flying there, it’s probably because you’re visiting DC and not some Civil War battlefield in rural Virginia. Functionally speaking, it’s DC’s airport.
My daily commute?
Does DC have an airport?
No, Reagan National is just across the Potomac from DC and also in Virginia.
There’s Ronald Regan Washington National (DCA) but it’s not an international airport, so only has domestic flights, and isn’t as big.
And, you know, also in Virginia.
I love how even the airport code is like “let’s pretend it’s DC”
“I see a bad moon rising”
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.
