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reason #2 why I would never visit that country
(#1 is the mass shootings and gun mania)
(tbh the only thing I'd want to visit to begin with are the giant sequoia in California)
How... how much gun violence do you think actually happens here?
There's a lot by number, and that's a serious fucking issue, but the US is also massive. It's not a regular or frequent danger of normal life here.
Even those numbers are pumped up by the fact that suicide by gun is counted in the exact same "gun violence" statistics as gang violence, and the "school shootings" statistics include all from the "gun violence" stats that occur within a certain radius around, regardless of when it happened (summer break, middle of the night, etc) or if it was any danger to students.
News overfocuses on shit like that because it pulls eyes and clicks, and therefore ad revenue.
Again, it is a serious fucking problem, but it's not the kind of thing you're going to experience in daily life or as a tourist.
Relax there's plenty of other reasons to not visit your shithole country
Yeah, hence why I didn't say anything to counter anything else, or that it was a good place to visit anytime soon.
Got any other mindblowing facts for us?
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Not that I would ever set foot in the US but what constitutes Social Media?
Yeah, I'd worry that they'd ask for my social media and get confused and angry.
Haven't been to the USA since 2016, unlikely to ever go again. :(
Visitors will also be required to provide information on what US authorities dub “high-value data fields,” meaning all of their phone numbers over the past five years and all of their e-mail addresses over the past 10. Moreover, they will be forced to provide personal details on family members as well as provide their own biometric data.
That's an entry ban for many people here. I do not know in which forums I posted some questions back in Dec 2020. I totally do not know the numbers of those prepaid sims I used while traveling 2016 till 2019. I used their mobile data and they have been in the trash for a decade. I also do not not every trash mail, mail redirect and mail service I have used since 2015. That must be hundreds of adresses.
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tourists? what tourists?
So does the US just want to totally kill its tourist industry because that seems to be the objective.
Unfortunatel I feel like most people will complain about this and visit anyway. I'd be very happy to be wrong about this though.
Only ignorant people. I had dreams of visiting and maybe doing a road trip, but under Trump I'm definitely not going there voluntarily. Even if my employer wants me to go there on business I'm refusing. I'd rather find another job than cross the US border.
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Oh, man. Anyone else remember how Republicans used to threaten to exercise their 2A rights in response to filling out a basic census report?
Yeah. I miss the days when those folks were considered the standard for "Conservative values". They were practically antifa back then.
Turns out the guns were never about defending themselves against an authoritarian government.
Nothing makes them talk about gun control faster than minorities arming.
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No thanks.
If the Dems aren't running on abolishing ICE and completely dismantling the police state, now, they're setting up to throw the 2028 election.
I hate to say it but they likely won't. Establishment democrats are complicit.
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Doubtful. The Democrats we have run on the platform of keep everything exactly the same. No changes, we're all good here. No notes.
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RIP what was left of the US tourism industry
lol the World Cup is gonna be yuge success bigly
Surely FIFA fans won't put up with an incredibly oppressive country
"why are the canadian matches so much more populated compared to ours?"
Don't worry about it! The Democrats will oppose this and get it kicked out for being un American. And if they don't succeed then all you have to do is wait until they get back into office and they'll executive order it straight outta town in an instant.....
Right?
This is why America sucks lol Republicans do horrendous shit and still people somehow blame the one party that can oppose that shit because of a scenario they made up in their heads.
The only party that can oppose anything effectively is a third party.
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