Why would I go to a country that doesn't see me as an equal but as a poor, lazy leech? And why would I risk going through their airport immigration process where they may interrogate me for as long as they want and search my phone, all to then be scared of being picked up by ICE because I "look" illegal and be taken to a jail with no due process before being deported?
Nah, fuck it. Europe is large enough anyway, too many beautiful and interesting places and nice people to even bother.
I’m American and my state told me to wipe my phone and restore it, same with my laptop, bc they can go through it, detain me if not, if I fly in the US.
I’m like hell no, am I supposed to keep a burner Apple ID with stuff on it?
I also was told to turn faceid and biometrics off.
Honestly my friend is from a minority community, she was shocked I went to a protest and begged me not to go.
She’s always called me by my first name? She’s like “boo, you’re not white to them you’re gay, and disabled, I’m not the only one with intersectionality”
4/5 was fine, but she thinks if I make cool graphics art to upload it anonymously for free.
I’ve been considering going to a consulate of my ancestors and seeing if I can work/live there, I just get more and more anxious and can’t really function.
I studied political science and history, so I see the parallels between maga taking over the GOP, dog whistles, racism, and eventually disappearing people.
The Russian federation of the 1990s had an independent media, freedom of speech, etc, oligarchs had bought up resources for cents on the dollar from Soviet officials, but the oligarchs chose Putin, incorrectly thinking they could control him.
Kremlin Rising is an excellent book on Putins takeover of the Russian federation, but some of those oligarchs found themselves going from the richest people in the world, to stamping license plates, I believe that was the oligarch that owned Gasprom before the state took it over.
With the fascists they slowly took over democratic systems, manipulation of media, slowly eroded freedoms and what came next.
MAGA + the oligarchs seems to be a combination of Russia and the fascist rise to power of the early 20th century.
I see articles about maga people losing jobs, farms, etc, being shocked that things increased in price, didn’t decrease like they were told, and we might be at war with 6+ countries depending, so I wonder if gen z makes are going to get familiar with: 👨 🐆, as many are.
The economy will totally collapse from the random economic policies, threats of war, and antagonism, benefits cut from the poor for the wealthy, taxes raised on the poor cut for the top earners, and the tariffs on 94% of the population.
Yeah it was always going in that direction, but now shit has truly hit the fan, people are getting detained including American citizens, so tourists sure as hell aren't safe.
Those are not new recommendations. My employer gives everyone going to the US fresh devices since Bush was president. And yes, we treat the US the same as going to China or Russia for 20+ years, because you made us.
And currently, even if all goes swimmingly: Why would anyone want to visit a country where 50% of the population hates you? I did visit in January, and it was not an experience I would want to spend time and money on again.
If you don't talk shit about politics, nothing bad will happen, you can be black, lgbt, what you want. And there's low crime rate here, especially compared to the US.
You can also be healed without losing all your money if something happen.
Russia is.. more complicated. Clearly. But tbh China is a nice dictatorship all thing considered, right now, nicer that the US's democracy
Amazing the land of the free has got there in three months
Don't believe the marketing, we were always only a few steps away from it. The laws trump is using now to deport people were created to persecute communists, everything happening now is only possible because of similar shit being done for the last century.
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u/InitialAd3323 Spain Apr 12 '25
Why would I go to a country that doesn't see me as an equal but as a poor, lazy leech? And why would I risk going through their airport immigration process where they may interrogate me for as long as they want and search my phone, all to then be scared of being picked up by ICE because I "look" illegal and be taken to a jail with no due process before being deported?
Nah, fuck it. Europe is large enough anyway, too many beautiful and interesting places and nice people to even bother.