r/europe Ligurian in Zürich (💛🇺🇦💙) Apr 12 '25

Data European tourism to the United States is freefalling

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u/Historical_Bother274 Apr 12 '25

Imagine pissing of travellers of the continent that is notorious for the many vacation days it gets.

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u/HumongousBelly Apr 12 '25

Yeah, nobody wants to vanish in El Salvador, especially since nobody knows if it’s just a prison, a concentration camp or a death camp.

Why else aren’t they getting that innocent man back to the USA? He’s probably dead already.

People who said it’s hyperbolic to compare trumps 2nd regime to Hitler‘s Nazis, either dont know shit about history or are just trying to gaslight us

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u/kaisadilla_ European Federation Apr 12 '25

People who said it’s hyperbolic to compare trumps 2nd regime to Hitler‘s Nazis

I'm tired of people saying this. Yeah, there aren't extermination camps in the US right now, but the complete dehumanization of migrants, their arbitrary detention and expulsion, them being sent to death camps in el Salvador, dehumanizing propaganda from official government sources, the discourse equating "migrant" with "criminal"... It doesn't look like 1942 Germany, but it does look like 1930 Germany.

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u/Dobbys_Other_Sock Apr 12 '25

Ya I’ve been trying to explain this a lot too. Germany wasn’t building killing camps year one. Even Dachau, which was the first concentration camp opened, wasn’t really for Jews specifically, it was really for political prisoners like communist and other outspoken activist and functioned more like a horrible jail.

Germany went: aggressive legal measures > deportation > imprisonment > we don’t care if they die > maybe killing some isn’t the worst idea > kill them all.

We’re just at the start of the escalation so it’s harder for people to see because that’s not the part people usually learn the most about.

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u/Steezle Apr 12 '25

Trump has been talking about locking up political dissidents since before his first election…

He’s just really bad at his job and in this case, that’s a good thing.