• hddsx@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Wow, this must have been Trump’s plan all along to reduce crashes in the DC SFRA! What a genius!

  • needanke@feddit.orgEnglish
    60·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • lowleekun@ani.socialEnglish
    47·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • Obelix@feddit.orgEnglish
      11·
      6 days 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.

    • BurningRiver@beehaw.orgEnglish
      141·
      7 days ago

      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.

      • lowleekun@ani.socialEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

        I hope you manage to get out. I might be wrong, maybe the USA get their shit back together, but it sure does not seem likely from outside. I will tell you this, when my fellow countryman give fascism the majority (50% for the AfD in Germany) i will get the fuck out because as far as i am concerned at that point its already the enemies territory.

        • mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          Got any friends who develop cube sats? We could do some real good work with I2P and satellite modems. We could link up with the kinetic launch people and set up a new opensource encrypted internet.

          • NewSocialWhoDis@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            6 days ago

            My coworkers on my current project are also supporting a cube sat mission that just launched. I’m not sure I follow what’s really unique about a cube sat mission though?

            I think the kinetic launch is a cool idea from a physics perspective, but from a systems perspective, it’s going to be fucking difficult to build systems to withstand it.

      • WheelerSelanne@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        People will be saying the same type of things about Canada soon; how it was our fault for letting our military decline, how we bought so much American product, how we let their culture take us over, how we didn’t cultivate a bigger place for ourselves in the world but were content to live complacent next to a volcano.

        For the most part people don’t want the consrant struggle. Just to vote when it’s time, keep up with global events, maybe protest if it’s a big enough issue. But we still need to focus on family and career, fun and rest, peace and quiet.

        For Them, the cause is their job, their activities, their meaning. I don’t think most of us realize how big the industry to manufacture consent is. When they have a bill prepared, before it even gets legislated they’re already working on the next step, either how to redo it if it fails or how to build on it if it passes. They don’t sleep, winning is their only purpose.

        I just don’t think we can afford to alienate anyone on our side. Telling someone there’s nothing they can do to make something right generally just makes them think they have to look out for themselves.

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • klu9@lemmy.caEnglish
      195·
      7 days ago

      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.

      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
        176·
        7 days ago

        There’s a lot of countries with airports named after people. Weird thing to be triggered over.

        • Obelix@feddit.orgEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          I disagree - klu9 really has a point here. We are naming things after people to honor them. And if you find a country where big infrastructure projects are named after politicians, you should be sceptical. Why this politician? Who decided to honor him in this way?

  • CircaV@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    6 days ago

    Oh so sad.

    /s

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

    • LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      If the rest of the world thinks their immune to fascism they’ll find out quickly they are not. Fascism doesn’t come about by votes alone. Fascism is a defense response of capitalism when it is in decline. Those votes are manufactured by media, xenophobia, and a decline to the material conditions of the working class. I’m sure it won’t be so as entertaining as American politics is. But it will be just as dangerous nonetheless.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    173·
    7 days ago

    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!

    • Tezzerets_Tea_Time@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      7 days ago

      Countless gorgeous museums, art galleries, music venues, etc. Seriously, the museums alone are days worth of entertainment and some of the nicest in the country.

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        Oh yeah definitely, but museums kinda hang out in the worst places don’t they lol.

        Not the poorest/roughest places, just the worst places lol

  • asg101@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    7 days ago

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

  • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    Wonder if this is a nationwide thing or if DC is hit particularly hard since it’s the heart of the evil empire.

        • exasperation@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          7 days ago

          Toronto’s main international airport is in Mississauga, about 17 miles (28km) from downtown Toronto.

          It’s pretty normal for metropolitan areas to span more than one state, and many municipalities, served by a single international airport that is in the suburbs of that major city.

          The point is that if you’re flying international in or out of DC, IAD is literally your closest option. And if you’re flying there, it’s probably because you’re visiting DC and not some Civil War battlefield in rural Virginia. Functionally speaking, it’s DC’s airport.

    • jacksilver@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      It may be located in Virginia, but it’s the closest international airport and is on the DC metro system. If things are slow at Dulles, it means people aren’t flying to DC.

  • rex_meatman@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    7 days ago

    As a Canadian, I couldn’t be happier.

    Maybe we can annex some of these poor should to a country that cares.

    Mostly.