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[–] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 179 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

If are thinking about coming to the U.S. this summer for vacation, please do not. Things are bad here. Worse than the news is letting on, even. PLEASE don't come here. Things are only going to get worse this summer.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 77 points 1 week ago (2 children)

^--- it's worse than the news is letting on.

[–] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 week ago

I know you weren't correcting me, but I went ahead and fixed it anyway :)

[–] HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 15 points 1 week ago

Oh no! I was agreeing, not correcting :D I didn't even realize the typo was there

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dont worry I'm not going to the USA even if I'm paid for it.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

My boss asked me to head our international exchange student program, which includes traveling with groups of students, and my acceptance was conditioned by not having to go to the US.

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Is it worse then Lemmy filtered news lets on? (Edit: just an honest question. News here is pretty negative, I just wonder if the lived experience is even worse)

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Generally, no. But it's still probably risky to go through border control as a non-citizen, especially if you're brown.

Things can change and are kind of expected to get worse by many, but for the vast majority of people here life hasn't changed much. Yet.

[–] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

As the other commenter said, it depends on where you are. But I would say, overall yes. Nobody really wants to talk about how bad it is/shaping up to be. The people preparing for serious defensive action are all dark, and everybody else is somewhere between denial, anger, or depression.

There are a lot of spinning plates in the air, and they seem to be all falling down at around the same time. A small example of this is the 20,000 new ICE agents that the administration has order to be quickly hired. Back during the campaign, they had Trump loyalists at his rallies sign up to "work for the Nation". That's almost certainly the pool that they will be hiring undertrained, and armed Trump lackeys from. That means within the next 2.5 months, Proud Boys, Boogooloo Boys, Patriot Prayer, Patriot Front, J6 insurrectionists, and many other actual Nazis will have badges, guns, and a mandate from the federal government to round up immigrants, dissenters, disabled, and anybody else they deem to be "undesirable". And that's just ONE of the plates spinning in the air.

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

With ICE already acting like nazis as it is, that sounds very scary. Something I heard is that people may already be self-censoring themselves for fear pf the consequences - not just at the high levels but also normal citizens

[–] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

Yes, definitely.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

people is still in denial, over here in the west, they act like nothing bads going to happen or is happening. i have met people that were recent magat converts because they watches j-rogan over the eleciton year, its sad. they are completely unaware of why YE is supporting musk.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 week ago

Depends on where you are in the country currently.