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Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] Melchior@feddit.org 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

The last world cups were in Russia and Qatar. Not like those are better then the Us, just less powerful. Olympia was decent though.

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[–] doleo@lemmy.one 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

At the time, were those countries assisting a genocide, enabling peadophiles and kidnapping heads of state? It's scraping the barrel, but tbh I can't think of a worse place than USA.

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[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

Yeah, you're right, Russia isn't assisting a genocide right now. I mean, they're conducting their own, so that doesn't count I guess (and that shit started in 2014). Qatar had the World Cup stadiums built with literal slave labour, and we really don't want to talk about the general situation of human rights in these countries (it's bad, really bad), but doesn't matter because they're not the US I guess.

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[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

As a Canadian, there is a small but nonzero chance that I would go to an event in the US, in normal times. These are not normal times, and I will not set foot in the country.

That is the difference between Qatar, Russia, and the US.

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[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

Just to clarify, by "that's the difference" you don't mean you'd travel to Qatar or Russia, but that the situation is new in the US but not new in Russia and Qatar, right?

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[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 1 point 6 months ago

There's no chance that I would travel to Qatar or Russia, but living in Canada there's a good chance I would have traveled to the US (I've probably gone there between 5 and 10 times in my life).

Now there is little chance that I will visit the US in the foreseeable future.

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