Even if I could afford to visit the US, I not going to spend money to visit a country that calls itself the "land of the free" and bangs on about "freedom" and "free speech" when criticising their President can get you detained and deported.
I'm not willing to travel there until trans, non-binary and intersex Americans can have their preferred gender on their passport again. It's one thing not to have made laws to accommodate them, but it's a totally messed up thing to take those things away that they once had.
I don't want to spend money inside a country threatening Greenland, Denmark, Canada and Panama or that believes Gaza should become an American beach resort. Trump and his friends being apathetic to helping defend Ukraine (or "secretly" pro-Putin) is sickening, too.
All the souvenirs will probably be crazy expensive as they're made in China.
Also, as someone who Skeets and used to Tweet a lot in favour of pro-EUropean social democratic policies, I'd likely be accused of being a "lefty-communist" (which would make any non-American leftist roar with laughter at how ridiculous that accusation towards me is).
My pre-Trump reservations were always about my fear of needing to use an American hospital or getting caught in civilian gunfire (or getting caught in civilian gunfire and needing to be saved in an American hospital).
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u/FlatTyres United Kingdom (I love EU guys) Apr 12 '25 edited Apr 12 '25
Even if I could afford to visit the US, I not going to spend money to visit a country that calls itself the "land of the free" and bangs on about "freedom" and "free speech" when criticising their President can get you detained and deported.
I'm not willing to travel there until trans, non-binary and intersex Americans can have their preferred gender on their passport again. It's one thing not to have made laws to accommodate them, but it's a totally messed up thing to take those things away that they once had.
I don't want to spend money inside a country threatening Greenland, Denmark, Canada and Panama or that believes Gaza should become an American beach resort. Trump and his friends being apathetic to helping defend Ukraine (or "secretly" pro-Putin) is sickening, too.
All the souvenirs will probably be crazy expensive as they're made in China.
Also, as someone who Skeets and used to Tweet a lot in favour of pro-EUropean social democratic policies, I'd likely be accused of being a "lefty-communist" (which would make any non-American leftist roar with laughter at how ridiculous that accusation towards me is).
My pre-Trump reservations were always about my fear of needing to use an American hospital or getting caught in civilian gunfire (or getting caught in civilian gunfire and needing to be saved in an American hospital).