As someone long ashamed to call themselves American, good.
We’re a bad, hateful neighbor. Even before Trump, when I went overseas, I lied I was Canadian. You saw something decent in us for a long time that was never there. I see that as the one silver lining to Trump, the Reagan/Welch grotesquerie of celebrated greed that Trump is merely the latest symptom of is finally naked for the world to gawk at in horror. May no more goodwill or respect be cast in our direction.
I saw an article earlier that said Americans are planning on traveling to Europe more. So a sensitive question for you, if it’s ok: What places in the world do you feel you could travel to right now where you feel you’d be welcomed as an American? Sincerely asking.
My hope would be nowhere, but unfortunately Europe especially has been infected with the greed disease we’ve been intentionally spreading for half a century through strong arm diplomacy there and military action in places like South America. The UK has completely fallen, France is resisting but losing, and Germany is in the process of falling to that greed disease.
Because of that, sadly, I don’t see much of western Europe unwelcoming us. The UK is practically an American forward operating base that runs on our exported greed and willful ignorance. Brexit was a symptom of that. The Nordic countries and Eastern Europe not so much because of our heightened antagonism of their interests including our declared expansionism both from us and support of Russia.
I expect the Nordic nations and most Asian nations to turn on us as their values still have some semblance of wellbeing of society > short term economic expectations for their elite, a concept we’ve been at war with for a long time, but minimally diplomatic about until Trump.
Africa and South America will still be welcoming of American money because they’re desperate, South America especially because the US has used our power to keep them economically desperate through tons of regime destabilizing military actions over the last century, but desperation means you can’t be picky.
Obviously there will be exception nations that still sadly see strategic advantage in allying with and advocating for tourism with proud deceivers like the US, but that would be my wide swath guesses regarding regions.
Then again, maybe I’m a pessimist and the world will rise to largely sanction and cut us off as our expansionist, fascist moves become more pronounced and malevolent intent becomes irrefutable. It really depends on how much the world continues to fall for our signature Clarion call of “just let it happen, and YOU might become one of the rich elite stomping on the little guy. It’ll trickle down…pfffff!” even as we’ve finally been shown as the capitalist misery factory that we are and have been for decades.
Not sure if I’m reading you right… sounds like you’re talking more on the political level, as opposed to how the average citizen on the streets will feel about welcoming Americans?
Another sensitive question: With everything that’s happening, do you worry about another major terrorist attack?
On a person to person level? It’ll go along with the local politics. I’m sure people in the AFD in Germany and the Tories in the UK will welcome Americans with open arms while those with less fascist tendancies will give us dirty looks.
I don’t worry about a terrorist attack here at all. We’re a very large country, if 9/11 proved anything it’s that we will over react and start a new war with the terrorists cause because waging war is profitable for our elite, and at this late hour, with both of our major parties pushing us into fascism over the last half century (unrestrained capitalism that both advocate for always leads to the marriage of government and the corporate elite) makes me more than sympathetic to domestic terrorism, because our constitution has been captured and we need revolution here. The levers of correction for this iteration of government have been bought, sold, and melted down for scrap. We need to start over, and that requires pain.
Both of our major parties would rather have Fascists in charge than leftists concerned with the public good. There is no possible way to vote ourselves into a positive state. 1980 was our very last, last, last chance to begin to course correct with our vote. Every regime since has been loudly and proudly on the take by our corpo Fascists. More domestic terrorism in the vein of what Luigi did would be far more productive than what we are doing now: hateful bullies gloating about all the vulnerable groups they’re actively harming with their vote through their weak strongman, and legions of people like me, cowards that just watch in horror and do nothing more than cast a harm reduction ballot every 2 years if that.
Thanks for taking the time, I appreciate it. The news isn’t the best source of information anymore.
I’ve never understood the people who go shopping across the border.
Honestly, because you can find fun and different stuff we don’t have here, see Trader Joe’s and the many treasures you can get there. It’s a cheap vacation, and at least in the past, you could get a lot for your money because stuff was much cheaper (not so much since covid and the last few years, though)
You don’t like spending $80 on gas and your entire Saturday driving to save $60 at Columbia outlet stores?!?!
And he didn’t even announce tariffs until late in the month.
Can’t wait to see February data.
I didn’t go to the US when he was president the first time, and I had already decided I wasn’t going there back in November when the dumbasses re-elected him.
I doubt I am alone in that.
The tariffs and 51st state bullshit simply added many more people to the boycott.
True, he wasn’t even president until the 20th!
This graph is non-intuative.
So max is 400k returns, so do we assume that this shows 400k out/in trips in Feb 2024?
Jan 2025 shows what? -20k returns, so 20k people leaving Canada and not coming back?
Yeah, this isn’t making much sense. What’s also frustrating is that it’s a screenshot from an article, which presumably could provide context to the chart.
Why isn’t there a link to the original article itself? No source, nothing?
This why Air Canada and WestJet (cannot remember if WestJet announced it or announced they where thinking about it), are offering less flights down south.
Yeah. I’m worried about a transit in April via the US. I hope Westjet doesn’t cancel our flight before then :/
But that’s entirely selfish of me. I want my trip to go smoothly. I’m also very interested in this trend for reasons 🙂
We done broke the graph.
Wait, this is US -> Canada. So in Jan 2025 Canadians went back to the US?
Keep it up Canucks! Hitting them where it hurts is hard, but worth it. Congrats :)
Excellent, very good to hear.
