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[–] 137 points 3 months ago
[–] 117 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why would anyone go to visit a fascist dictatorship?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Plenty of dictatorships around the world treat foreign tourists well enough. The special thing about the US is that they seem to be happy to treat even tourists like shit. For example "German tourists’ ordeal reportedly ending as they are returned from US detention":

    Jessica Brösche, a 29-year-old tattoo artist from Berlin, will reportedly join Lucas Sielaff, 25, from Bad Bibra in Saxony-Anhalt, who is reported to have returned to Germany on 6 March, after being arrested at the Mexican border on 18 February before being detained for almost two weeks.

    The families of the two tourists, who were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), had compared their ordeals to “a horror film”.

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  • [–] 93 points 3 months ago

    I have to travel to 'Murica every few months

    I'm loving the fact that the exchange rate has gotten better for me by a significant margin, that hotels are offering cheaper rates because they have rooms empty that would otherwise be full and that places are less busy with tourists

    I feel for the people who didn't vote for Trump, but for those who did, and for those who could have voted against him but didn't, they can suck the farts right out of my arsehole

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  • [–] 80 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Why would anyone want to travel to a fascist police state run by pedophiles? How is that fun? They’ve already said they are going to have their state sponsored terrorist police at airports looking through your phone to make sure you support the fundamentalist colonialist state of Israel and their genocide and to make sure you support king pedo and the fuck around gang or you could just go on a vacation to literally anywhere else and not have to deal with this clown show

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Given past sports washing events, people don't care about that.

    It seems to be a combination of extremely high ticket prices combined with a fear that ICE is going to disappear you when you're traveling the country.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    This is idiocracy in action. These kind of propaganda ops only work if you can stop the bad stuff you are doing for at least 5 minutes.

    When the Saudi comedy festival circus was going on they didn't imprison and or kill the comedians they paid to go there. They could stop for the metaphorical 5 minutes - the current US clown show is too stupid even for that.

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  • [–] 75 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Trump is a hotel owner.

    Destroys tourism.

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  • [–] 43 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    > be Trump

    > be participant in largest blackmail influence network in history

    > banks, shahs, princes, empires, all crumble between your fingertips

    > get to bang models when they’re still teenager virgins

    > become president

    > “wow I’m the greatest genius ever, make American great again”

    > everyone talks shit about you but who cares? Have fun talking shit right back you’re the king of the world

    > FBI arrests your Mossad agent partner, he’s gonna squeal

    > you have to have him killed to keep everything from getting out

    > tfw “I’ll show them, I’ll destroy their precious country for what they made me do to you, Jeffrey”

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago

    My take is different.

    Trump was in bed with the New York Mafia for decades. The real bosses stayed as far away from him as possible, sending their stooges to control him.

    Trump had one really smart mentor, Roy Cohn. He ditched Cohn when Roy was diagnosed with AIDS.

    Trump thinks that he's a genius because he does scams like selling NFTs and golden sneakers to chumps.

    A real boss would have quietly extorted $50 billion out of Saudi Arabia on Inauguration Day 2017 and then just been quiet.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    We're taking about someone who bankrupted four (4!) casinos. Some of them multiple times.

    He might be a successful grifter (though that's probably more due to luck and being a useful and extremely easy to buy or convince puppet than any kind of talent), but a shrewd businessman he's most definitely not.

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  • [–] 64 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    Yeah because 'murca has become a facist shithole country and no one wants to vacation in one of those.

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  • [–] 53 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Why would anyone come here? Even white tourists have been detained. God forbid a person of color come here, they may not make it home.

    It’s not safe here.

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  • [–] 52 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    This is what happens when you overprice the fucking tickets. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Fucking pieces of shit.

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    [–] 52 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    By contrast, Airbnb has said the World Cup is to be "the biggest hosting event" in its history."

    When you have an unregulated marketplace like AirBnB the legitimate businesses will loose. AirBnB rentals destroys neighborhoods and kills hotels

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    [–] 40 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly, as an American, who in the fuck would want to come here and risk being shot by an government representative or sent to an internment camp for watching football?

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    [–] 38 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    How could this happen tho? It's not as if the country became a shithole with a gestapo arresting and sending to concentration camps to anyone that is not a clear white straight usian...

    Why would I want to risk being arrested or worse to see a soccer match? But also, why the hell would I want to give a single cent to a country that's objectively making the lives of everyone in this world worse?

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  • Lifelong football fan, fuck fifa fuck the world cup. Ill be at the park volunteering soccer coaching for local youths while the fascists have their epstein files distraction cup.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The AirBnB/VRBO owners in Seattle seem to think they hit pay dirt with the World Cup qualifier match there next month. I've had two hosts in a row claim they have 'emergency repairs' to do there that weekend (nearly two months after the day I booked) and demand that I cancel my reservation, so they can relist it at double the price.

    I'm planning a birthday trip there that just happens to fall on the same day and it's been a huge pain in the ass. One of the owners even called me pretending to work for VRBO then argue with me on the phone about why I need to cancel the reservation on my end. I spoke to customer service and forced the hosts to cancel in their end, which locks them out of relisting the property during that time. The above mentioned host had to claim "the property was sold," according to my cancellation email, then presumably relist it under a new account but without any history or reviews.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago

    There are a lot of stupid football fans out there, but few are stupid enough to disregard their own safety.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    There are few things i would try to avoid more than visiting the US.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Good, that’s the only thing those MAGAts even begin to understand.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    interested to see how the olympics in LA go.

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    [–] 13 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    World Cup hasn’t started yet idk wtf they were expecting. On top of prices and inflation being out of control people are waiting as long as possible to buy. Airfare alone is up like 200%

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    Good. We deserve it.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    Fuck the world Cup, fuck FIFA, fuck giving Nazis tourist dollars. At least a few people feel like their integrity is worth more than watching a game.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    Good fuck 'em.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Another insightful behind-the-scenes USA perspective from me:

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  • [+] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
    [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    🤣🤣🤣

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