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Las Vegas mayor says the city is suffering from a serious drop in Canadian tourists: 'We need you, and we miss you' | Fortune (archive.is)
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Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley issued a heartfelt plea to Canadian visitors this week, acknowledging the city’s tourism-dependent economy is suffering from a dramatic decline in international visitors, particularly from Canada, which represents the city’s largest international market.

“As the mayor of Las Vegas, I’m telling everybody in Canada, please come. We love you, we need you, and we miss you,” Berkley said during a press conference this week, where she addressed the multiple challenges facing the entertainment capital’s tourism industry.

The mayor’s latest comments echo concerns she first raised in an August press conference, where she painted a stark picture of the tourism decline.

“International travel is way down. People are not coming to the United States,” Berkley said last month. “’

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[–] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

I can promise you TSA doesn't give a flying fuck about anything besides the water bottle in your backpack. Other agencies, sure, but the TSA itself is only concerned if you're trying to bring a prohibited item through security. Unless the FBI has tagged you as a terrorist or something they could care less.

Edit: yeah there are still bad actors and racists out there, but I'm trying to say that the TSA agent isn't gonna stop and go "wait a second you posted cringe on twitter" unless another agency tells them to. "But my agent was a jerk and profiled me" yeah there are jerks, it's surprisingly low effort to be an asshole. I'm just saying TSA (and just the TSA) has their head too far up their ass and is too lazy to try and monitor every single person who wants to take a flight themselves.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    TSA just loves to power trip. Last trip my pre check got messed up so my wife and daughter went through and got on the plane, and I got sent to the 45 minute other line. They let a handicapped person go right ahead of me and skip the line when I finally got to the front (normally okay, but now I had 10 minutes left to run to the plane for final boarding). They flagged my bag for extra checking because there were baby wipes in there, and when I asked if they could check mine first before the guy who got placed in front of me, he yelled at me that I should have been at the airport 2 hours ago and it wasn't his problem if I missed my flight and my wife and daughter flew without me.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago*

    Wrong, almost missed my flight out of Kansas recently because the guy checking IDs pulled the person I was with aside for a full search, because they looked Latina (he said he thought her ID was fake). She had to stand there for 45 minutes waiting to be searched, no one could help her or search her. Finally I pitched a white woman tantrum at another older white woman working and she got her out ASAP. Her ID and everything was fine. He was just racist and wanted to harass her because he could. What a fucker

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe today but do you think Orange Man won't weaponize the TSA given a reason or opportunity?

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