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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. “’

Great yet ?

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[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 258 points 2 weeks ago

Lol get fucked. Sent with love from Canada.

[-] spinne@sh.itjust.works 105 points 2 weeks ago

Ohhh, oh no! We need your tourism toonies in Las Vegas! We had no idea just how much Canadians spent on American stuff like bourbon and vacations! Ohh no, we're so sorry for those silly things we said, like threatening your sovereignty and being all condescending and dismissive.

Echoing your sentiment from the middle of America. Get fucked! Begging for visitors like that before doing anything to make amends, ugh.

[-] Taldan@lemmy.world 55 points 2 weeks ago

And you just know Trump didn't learn any lesson. He 100% would do it again. I don't blame Canadians in the slightest bit. Honestly I'm happy they're voting with their wallets

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 hours ago

i mean, how has he been even remotely negatively affected? he made no mistake, he's just an absolute psychopath who merrily uses the people.

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[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 172 points 2 weeks ago

Imagine treating your friends like garbage and then being surprised when they don't wanna hang out anymore. My country literally threatened to invade both of our closest neighbors and friends and are now shocked that they hate us. Americans are the neighbor that constantly blasts music with their windows open and steals everyone's shit and then bitches when they don't get invited to neighborhood parties. The man-child of the Americas.

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 60 points 2 weeks ago

Shut up and fuck off, TommySoda!

I was right to yell at TommySoda; they don't visit me anymore ever since I told them to fuck off. The dirty non-visiting bastard...

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 48 points 2 weeks ago

Please come back TommySoda and teach me how to do manufacturing so that my threats and tariffs can hurt both of us instead of just me. I probably won't arrest you a second time.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

(TommySoda was promptly shipped off to a gulag after foolishly venturing into the US)

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 weeks ago

Trump and his supporters are so delusional, they thought threatening to annex other countries was a compliment

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[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 132 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry, but your federal government snatches people off the streets and sends them to concentration camps. We know of at least one Canadian citizen that was kidnapped by ICE, who then died in their custody.

This is in addition to your president threatening to annex us, and starting a trade war for no discernible reason.

No, I will not be visiting. A regime change won't help either.

It will never go back to the way things were, and that's on you collectively.

[-] Jesusaurus@lemmy.world 49 points 2 weeks ago

But wait! There's more! You can also receive a free deportation to a partner country of our choosing regardless of your country of origin!

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[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 26 points 2 weeks ago

That's going to be generational trauma. Trust will have to be built with the youth, as adults have already said no.

[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

That's going to be generational trauma. Trust will have to be built with the youth, as adults have already said no.

Ending this regime is meaningless if the machinery that enabled it remains intact. The ICE agents that are lustily performing their duties will still live there, and will absolutely vote for more of the same.

There's a segment of the population that still won't get off their asses to vote as though their way of life depended on it.

Passage of time alone, is woefully inadequate to repair what was vandalized.

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[-] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 84 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 weeks ago

I wish I was Canadian just so I could use this.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 64 points 2 weeks ago

So much of Nevada is a handful of mobbed up white nationalists and ultra-conservative Zionists profiteering off the sweet and tears of a migrant Latino working class. The city is a hive of scum and villainy kept afloat by the hard work of the large, active, and occasionally quite radical labor left.

If it wasn't fully immersed in US military bases and California Techie Fascists, it could be ground zero for a full blown socialist movement. Instead, it's just a pit where natural resources go to burn, so that a few dozen oligarchs can be billionaires and a few million service sector workers can enjoy above average wages.

Maybe we just push the whole thing off the Hoover Dam already.

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 61 points 2 weeks ago

Most of the comments are talking about ICE and Canadians disliking the current American regime, which is true. But also Vegas isn't fun anymore. It's so overpriced for what it is. The ruthless corporate nickel and diming exploitation has ruined Vegas as a destination.

If the mayor of Las Vegas wants people to visit, instead of begging Canadians to come back, try telling MGM and Caesars to entice visitors with some deals and value for their money.

[-] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 weeks ago

It’s ridiculously overpriced there now.

A high chance of being shipped to an Alligator Auschwitz Concentration (soon to be death) Camp and treated like what happened to the South Koreans. No thanks.

Also you americans seem to have forgotten that your fascist child rapist president threatened to annex Canada and continues to do so.

Get bent.

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[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 56 points 2 weeks ago

Here is my most Canadian reaction.

Bwahahahahahaaaaa... No.

Et pour l'autre langue officielle:

Honhonhonghonhooon... Non.

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[-] CircaV@lemmy.ca 47 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fuck off America. 🇨🇦’s not coming back. You’re too dumb to even know why. 🖕🖕🖕

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[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 weeks ago

We need you...r money!! And we miss you...r money!!

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[-] voodooattack@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

As the mayor of Las Vegas, I’m telling everybody in Canada, please come. We love your money, we need your money, and we miss your money,” Berkley said during a press conference this week

This is what I read

[-] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago

Like a fascist american is going to actually care about anybody but themselves.

It’s nothing but give me money whining.

Go back to being a desert. Be better for all concerned.

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[-] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 40 points 2 weeks ago

Too bad MAGAts have chased away people from entering this country.

[-] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Have the day Nevada voted for.

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 weeks ago

Why would I want to visit any city in that fascist shit hole when there is an entire world of free countries to visit.

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Aw gee, that sounds like a really specific problem that would have really specific cause and solution, I wonder what it could be.

[-] selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck Vegas. You get what you voted for, morons.

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 weeks ago

you guys are having a nation-wide hunt for people who aren't mourning a neo-nazi supporting piece of shit the way you want them to, and trying to ruin their lives.

I'm gonna stay away, thanks. finish taking out the trash first

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[-] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 weeks ago

I’ll stay in my genetically diverse country of Canada and if I feel like it, I’ll visit any one of the many casinos we have here and keep my money in the greatest nation on earth.

I like people of colour, ethnic origins and choice of religion or lack there of, and honestly, I enjoy feeling safe amongst my brethren and not worrying if myself or my neighbour will be pulled out of their bed because they were born the wrong skin tone or race and sent off to a desolate jail in another country not of their own.

America the fascist can rot and I’m enjoying watching it start to implode.

I feel sorry for the good Americans caught up in this, but you have a line item in your constitution to fight this sort of thing. It’s up to you all to choose what you do with that.

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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago

Lol.

Did they think owning the libs was going to be free?

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[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

"Come to Las Vegas! Win a free trip to El Salvador if you accidentally get swept up in an ICE raid!"

[-] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

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

I guess international travelers don't like being assaulted by Trump's Gestapo and disappeared into a gulag. Who knew?

[-] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

Fascism is unpopular.

Shocking I'm sure.

[-] Outlawstar@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

I'm American, have never been to Vegas and was planning a trip. Then all my bills went up. My insurance alone tripled. I now fear traveling state to state as I don't trust the police in red states so no driving through them. I no longer trust the TSA to not arrest me for what I post online so no more flying. I think I will stay right here for the foreseeable future as travel just isn't important to me right now. Would I love to travel? Yes. I need to feel safe and secure in it and to not be financially ruined by it. Right now I just need to focus on making sure my housing and food is secured. I don't have time or security to focus on anything else.

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[-] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 27 points 2 weeks ago

Hey, try this instead:

"We have an armed response force ready to protect you against ICE if they come to try to snatch you. We have lawyers at the ready, and we're fine mobilizing the state's National Guard if it comes to that. If you're in another part of the country and worried about your safety, come to Vegas! You can do some gambling and see the sights without worrying if you're going to make it home to your family or not."

Guaranteed spike in tourism. Don't just ask for what you want. Earn it.

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[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

Flush the orange turd and any wipe way any remaining shit spackles, then we'll discuss holiday plans.

Sincerely, the same half of the UK.

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[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 25 points 2 weeks ago

Canadian here. Nice try, ICE.

[-] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 weeks ago

Me I will never come to the states ever again in my life. The states are now a fascist country.

We don’t love you, we don’t need anything from you. Go kiss your fascist child rapists ring, you got what you voted for.

Piss off.

[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago

From Canada with love: fuck you

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 weeks ago

You only miss our money. Fuck off.

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[-] Banzai51@midwest.social 22 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe it would help if our President wasn't threatening Canadian sovereignty, and the cult wasn't cheering it on.

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[-] deathbird@mander.xyz 22 points 2 weeks ago

The mayor of Las Vegas is a democrat, not a member of the face-eating leopards party. I'm too busy to look it up right now but I'm going to bet that the Las Vegas City and surrounding county is probably one of the most consistently Democratic parts of Nevada. Of course Canadians should still stay away. Any non-american should just not come, but this is not lamf

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[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 weeks ago

How much of it is Canadians staying away because of fascism, or how much of it is staying away because Vegas is too goddamn expensive?

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[-] Cevilia 19 points 2 weeks ago

"We have a number of very high rollers that come in from Mexico that aren’t so keen on coming in right now"

I wonder why. /s

[-] Zink@programming.dev 18 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure this is not a rare thing on Lemmy, but even as an American sitting in the US I see these headlines and think "lol get fucked."

Probably 100 Million people in this country need to be shocked into global reality. I worry just how bad things will have to get before that happens, though. It would be great to have an economy that would let me retire some day, sure, but the loss of institutions and technological advancement is sad for both us and for people that don't even exist yet.

And I'm not trying to be anti entertainment / gambling / prostitution, but Vegas is pretty low on the priority list of the american institutions trump is disintegrating. It has high international visibility though.

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[-] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago

I do feel sorry for individual Americans who will lose their jobs, maybe their homes, maybe more. However, we saw what Russia has done to the Ukraine and we have to be just as wary about our Southern neighbour. We've always known that America is a good-weather friend and we can't count on them, even if they have always been able to count on us, but with Trump we have to believe that America would go even further and try to destroy us. We can't sit back and take that. Until Trump and his acolytes are out of power in the US - and that may never happen - we have to Stand On Guard for Thee (Canada). That means as little US vacation and as limited buying of US merchandise as we can individually manage.

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[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

She's Democrat, so not really LAMF. I feel sorry for relatively sane people getting caught up in all this. Fuck the whole MAGA madhouse with a rusty spade.

That said, I just don't see what she thought she could have achieved with that. Maybe its target audience was her own consituency more than actual Canadians.

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