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[–] 112 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Glad you had a good time. I understand. :(

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  • [–] 83 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    DC voted 90%+ for Harris. There’s almost no chance he voted for this.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    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.

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    [–] 70 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I was there two weeks ago. Expected a huge pain in the ass getting in and out.

    It was a ghost town.

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  • [–] 69 points 1 year ago

    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

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  • [–] 63 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    no foreigners in mai country yeeha!

    Why is tourism down?

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    Music to my ears.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I feel so sorry for US Americans. I honestly do.

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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Did anyone in DC vote Trump?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    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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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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!

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The more working class people leave DC, the happier I will be when the asteroid hits.

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh so sad.

    /s

    Guess America should not have elected an orange fascist fuckwhit gameshow host to their highest office.

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