• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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      I think people would visit even if we were fascist. The thing keeping everyone away is the significantly greater than zero chance that you and your family might get picked up by ICE and questioned under duress for several days simply for trying to visit Disney World.

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      Yeah, we’ll see. It’s basically expecting the rest of the West to act differently. Maybe they’ll surprise me. However, it’s not like I don’t have perfect examples right off the top my head like France and Roman Polanski for instance. Kinda makes me think that people are shit no matter where they’re at, and they’re gonna visit if they feel like visiting here. If the marketing is good enough, the fascism won’t matter and I would be willing to bet on it.

      No, I don’t think that Europeans are somehow better humans than any other human on the planet. We’re all shit and we’re gonna prove that correct.

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    Bizarre AI photo at the top, no author byline, no link to the source of the data (if there is one), no specific report mentioned, just “the latest analysis”.

    This looks to me like an AI-generated article where someone either prompted it to “summarize” a real report or else it hallucinated a report based on whatever supposedly relevant internet news it’s eaten recently.

    Going to the site that comes up for a search for World Travel & Tourism Council and looking around on it, I don’t see a report on this topic.

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    Why would you not want to visit a fascist hell-hole where human rights don’t exist, the rule of law has broken down, and you can be abducted, imprisoned without charge or deported at any moment just for the crime of being foreign?

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      While in here US citizens can freely come and go as they please… unfair, to say the least.

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        There have been far too many examples of ICE detaining law biding citizens at this point. I’m a US citizen and I don’t even want to travel too far.

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        Who gets the worse end of that? All things considered I’d much rather have a free country to come home to.

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    Good. I hope thousands of landlords can’t afford their extra homes and are forced to sell, driving down housing prices.

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      Last time housing prices crashed in the USA, people’s incomes crashed as well or their mortgage obtaining ability did. All it meant was that the already rich and corporations were able to buy up real estate cheap. Did not remotely help 90% of the population.

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        All it meant was that the already rich and corporations were able to buy up real estate cheap.

        Something like half of all real estate is owned by private equity.

        If you genuinely care about wealth consolidation among the ultra-rich, and you seriously want to do something about it, there’s a Little Red Book with some helpful advice.

        But just propping up Boomer real estate values for another ten years isn’t an answer either. It’s a losing game to pretend you can outwit Blackrock on home ownership.

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      its usually the already corporate landlords, will bought off by even larger ones, like blackrock.

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    Let’s fucking go! Keep it up everyone, make people here really see and feel the consequences.

    I’m under no illusion that anyone who voted for this will “feel bad” or regret their vote. As we have been seeing the people who voted for this do not regret their decision perse. However, the hate that fuels them will only take them so far. If things get bad enough quick enough they might be able to remember it the next time (if there ever is one). I think the cult following of Trump and their emotional sunk cost fallacy won’t let them see that voting for Trump was a bad idea, but there is a small chance they will recognize and reject it in whoever comes next.

    I’m under no illusion the above will actually happen, I just think it’s the best that can be hoped for.

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      I work with some of those “haters”. They will never blame Trump. Even when their wallets are getting hurt, they will just blame Democrats and the world.

      One haters I work with worship Trump and she is an Asian. How ironic

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    I live in a major tourist city, and the word around town is that there will be a steep decline from foreign visitors, but many are still coming anyway, because they’ve had their vacations booked for months, and it’s too late to change.

    But if this keeps up, next summer will be a bloodbath.

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      we wont see any actual data/decline until winter, or next year. trump is totally obsessed with tariffs, and he will keep doing this for his pump and dump schemes.

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      What a shit situation that they have Americans hoping their own country fails.

      I absolutely do not hope for a depression. You will NEVER see small business again. You will NEVER own a house. Our future will be utterly gone.

      What we need is what can’t be said.

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        You will NEVER see small business again. You will NEVER own a house. Our future will be utterly gone.

        I just hope everyone in my family can buy food and medical care.

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        What a shit situation that they have Americans hoping their own country fails.

        It’s like finding out your dog has rabies. You don’t really want to watch your friend suffer and you certainly don’t want it to watch it inflict this horror on anyone else.

        I absolutely do not hope for a depression. You will NEVER see small business again. You will NEVER own a house. Our future will be utterly gone.

        Would forestalling a plunge in GDP prevent that? It seems like our finance sector controls everything - lock, stock, and barrel. The only way out is for this system of suffocating domination to end. And that’s going to mean abandoning a fixation on (often fictitious) capital growth at all costs.

        That doesn’t mean people will simply stop doing business with one another. It doesn’t mean personal homes done for.

        It does mean that - on paper - GDP is going to fall, as all that hot air comes out of a FIRE sector inflated to the moon.

        But it also means abolishing a ton of personal debts, ridding ourselves of bullshit jobs, and reorganizing our economic administration towards value creation rather than labor extraction

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      No one alive today has had to live through a depression; I don’t think you really understand what you’re saying

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    Are americans, both left and right, still believing that their dear leader is a business genius? I think an elementary school grade 2 committee would do better.

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    As a US citizen I’m nervous to do international tourism as well after hearing so many people get detained at the border. It’s crazy.

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    JFC that fucking pisspoor AI photo they used. I fucking hate the future so much.