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There is a significant majority of people in Canada who not only vocally decided to not go to US but discourage their friends from doing so too. People have jud
by cheesecompiler 7mo ago
There is a significant majority of people in Canada who not only vocally decided to not go to US but discourage their friends from doing so too. People have judged me for driving through the states.
- TwoNineA 7mo agoLast year we cancelled a planned US vacation, this year we didn't even think about it. Going back to Europe two years in a row. I don't give a fuck about tariff policy of our supposed "friends" but when our "friend" repeatedly threatens our independence and sovereignty, no thanks. Not going to step into the USA for a long time.
- iso1631 7mo agoIt's not the government that's the problem per-se, it's the fact half the US supports that government
- Retric 7mo agoThis administration has terrible approval ratings. https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump...
- loloquwowndueo 7mo agoTotally a case of “gee, who’d have thunk”
- pupppet 7mo agoApproval ratings should be far lower than this.
- epistasis 7mo agoYes, and a major reason they aren't lower is because of tech executives that control the media and mass communication in the US.
- mrbombastic 7mo agoAgreed but we also have to stop saying "the majority support this" or "half the country supports this" it ain't true and leads people to feel hopeless.
- ryandrake 7mo agoYet, if we re-did the election today, we'd have the same outcome. People might not support what is happening but they will never "vote for the other guy." I personally know people who disagree with everything that's going on, but they'll still vote (R) next time "because I'm a (R)," as if it's their intrinsic physical trait like hair color.
- cfloyd 7mo agoThis is a good analysis but I’ll say at least for me, it has been a lesser of two evils scenario. Both parties have some really crazy ideas and platforms. I loathe the two party system for this reason.
- dmoy 7mo agoYea that's a fair take Like you will go to an election, and your choices will be Republican candidate: "I support deporting your family, I will not only not support cleaner energy but will actively work to increase coal usage, and I think your trans cousin should be forced to transition back even if it makes them commit suicide." Democratic candidate: "I think all of that stuff the Republican candidate said is crazy and wrong. If elected, I will strive to make all your guns illegal, so that eventually Republican-supporting institutions like the police and military, and Republican states, are the only ones with guns."
- ModernMech 7mo ago“I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time,” Trump said at a meeting with lawmakers on school safety and gun violence. “Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376097-trump-take-the-guns-first-go-through-due-process-second/ https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376097-trump-tak...
- sandworm101 7mo agoThere are hard and soft approval ratings. The soft number is the count of how many people will vote for/against in the next election. The hard number is how many want a change today, how many will support recalling thier representatives in order to force change today. In that number, the current administration has widespread support.
- greedo 7mo agoThere is no mechanism for recall of Congressional officers.
- sandworm101 7mo agoPlenty of state-level reps can be recalled today. That noone is even trying sends the message that the population is generally OK with waiting until the next election ... an election that will be run/managed/counted by those representatives.
- greedo 7mo agoI specifically said Congressional representatives.
- jacquesm 7mo agoNo legal ones anyway.
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- jacquesm 7mo agoI'm not advocating for it, merely observing that that seems to be the way in which the USA prematurely gets rid of politicians that it does not like. It's revolting, the amount of violence in politics and >> what even banana republics get away with and that's on both sides of the aisle so I don't give a rats ass about which side you or anybody else is on. FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinated_American_politicians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinated_American_... Fix your systems, get rid of corruption and try - for once - to act like you mean it with all that talk of democracy because I'm not seeing it. Meanwhile, on HN it is customary to try to not read the worst into a comment. Thank you. Edit: oh, I see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270814 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270814 Pot, kettle, and so on, you seem to have no trouble with the USA murdering people.
- lordgroff 7mo agoThese are shockingly high.
- raw_anon_1111 7mo agoI love the copium. If I have 10 friends and ask all of them where they want to go for dinner and 6 say let’s have Chinese and the other 4 say let’s kill Bob and eat him, I still have a shitty friend group.
- jacquesm 7mo agoThose are MUCH higher than they should be by now. It makes me wonder what the approval rating of a ham sandwich would be, and I would not be surprised if it was higher.
- actsasbuffoon 7mo agoA ham sandwich has some strong qualities. I’m not kidding. The president would do basically nothing for four years, which would cause some things to move slowly. But it would be a very stable environment. No random tariffs via executive order, no random wars or invasions, no governing via tweet. Ham sandwich would maybe be one of our better presidents. Top 50%, probably.
- TwoNineA 7mo agoControversial opinion, it's way more than half: 1/3 voted for the orange man, 1/3 didn't bother go to vote because "BoTh SideS ARe thE SamE!" and 1/3 tried to do the right thing.
- JohnMakin 7mo agoIt may surprise you, but it’s generally accepted that 1/3rd is less than 1/2.
- TwoNineA 7mo ago1/3 explicitly approve and 1/3 implicity approve. If my math is mathing, that's 2/3 and it's larger than 1/2.
- dahart 7mo agoIt’s a large and incorrect assumption, and not mathing, to lump non-voters into supporters, especially when the administration is purging eligible voters.
- Larrikin 7mo agoEligible voters should absolutely be lumped in as implicit supporters. Disenfranchised voters have been made ineligible so should not have been in the statistic.
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- hamdingers 7mo agoAn eligible voter who chooses not to vote makes one unambiguous statement: "I'm fine with either outcome"
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- univacky 7mo agoAmerican here. I have to agree with this sentiment (without getting into the math of our deeply flawed election system). The administration could not do any of this without the support of Congress, which has not wavered. That support is unwavering because those elected officials are not getting negative feedback from their voters and donors, so they have every expectation that staying this course will work out just great for them. This administration's actions only continue with the approval of their party who put them and keep them in power.
- tzs 7mo agoCongress has received plenty of negative feedback from their voters. The intensity and frequency of Republican voters confronting their representatives over many administration policies (e.g., Medicaid cuts, ACA subsidy cuts, tariffs, Epstein, influence of unelected officials) when those representatives hold in-person town halls has led to representatives greatly reducing in-person town halls, replacing them with tele-town halls so they can cut off people.
- Sabinus 7mo agoIf that isn't reflected in the midterms then it's just theatre. Time will tell.
- ulfw 7mo agoIt won't be. Even if the house swings to the democrat side it will be a marginal swing only, not a massive change. Who knows if the Senate will even flip at all. Half of America loves what's happening and the other half doesn't believe the first half loves it.
- gaoshan 7mo agoCan't blame you. Coming from the US I have been making a point to vacation in Canada, fwiw. Short of voting, protesting and getting into arguments with MAGA people I don't know what else I can effectively do.
- sandworm101 7mo agoLook into your state's recall procedures. Waiting for the next election is effectively acquiescence to the current situation.
- derektank 7mo agoNo sitting member of Congress has ever been recalled and it’s almost certainly unconstitutional. Article I only outlines one way to remove a sitting representative or senator, and that’s expulsion by a vote of the chamber in which they sit
- sandworm101 7mo agoCongress is one power structure. States and cities are others. 19 states have recall procedures. The fed is much less powerful domestically without state-level support. And pulling down even a couple state reps would send a chilling message to the fed. https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/recall-of-state-officials https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/recall-of-state...
- galangalalgol 7mo agoVery few red states in those 19...
- astura 7mo agoMy State has no recall procedures, that doesn't exist, the same is true for the majority of states. https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/recall-of-state-officials https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/recall-of-state... Beyond that, my state is not the problem.
- cgh 7mo agoSame. We had two month-long trips planned and canceled them both. I realize California is not exactly “enemy territory” or whatever but we’ll spend our money elsewhere.
- XorNot 7mo agoI mean you say that, but as someone with family in California the issue isn't the general citizenry it's that ICE and border people aren't general citizenry. If the system decides to screw you over, that your average Cali resident disapproves doesn't stop you being in a holding cell for weeks.
- mothballed 7mo agoGoing through CBP is such a nightmare, even as a US citizen, I also think twice about going on international vacation. I hate entering my own country, every other country is so much easier, a deep sense of dread enters every time I have to go back to the USA because I know I will be fucked with by the border police. I try not to let them influence my behavior too much, but at the end of the day, getting thrown in immigration jail on false accusations (yes happened to me despite presenting US passport) or detained for 12+ hours (also happened several times) puts constraints on vacation plans.
- dawnerd 7mo agoReally depends where your entry point is. They’ve moved to digital gates which have made actual cbp interactions basically a thing of the past. Last couple times I didn’t even have to take my passport out.
- fragmede 7mo agoAs you said, depends on your gate of entry. At some of them, they took the digital gates out after installing them.
- raw_anon_1111 7mo agoMost of my flying back into the US has been through ATL and once through LAX. It wasn’t bad. We just had to wait 3 hours in line to get into Costa Rica.
- expedition32 7mo agoAmericans don't understand that words have meaning. Canadians are supposed to just shrug and laugh.
- blks 7mo agoIt’s not even just about threats, you as an individual are in potential danger of being detained without due process by ICE
- jhickok 7mo agoWe had a great candidate for a job decline to relocate to the US for precisely this reason. I really do not blame anyone for making that decision
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- bluecalm 7mo agoFor me it's not about politics at all. Just the thought of going through TSA and immigration is enough to discourage me, especially when I can hop on a plane to Spain, Italy or Cyprus and face 0 inconveniences along the way.
- iamtheworstdev 7mo agoyou don't want to give up your DNS to visit the USA? /s
- jacquesm 7mo agoCyprus is probably best avoided right now.
- bluecalm 7mo agoYeah I mentioned it because I have semi-permanent home there. Luckily we left before the war started. I am just getting government SMS with warnings now.
- jacquesm 7mo agoGah that must suck. I hope you all ride this out without mishap. It's got to be so frustrating, it's like a bunch of gangsters having it out in the street where you live.
- morkalork 7mo agoThe whole social media history and phone searching thing makes me nervous, you're one bad-taste meme about Charlie Kirk and a butt-hurt CBP agent away from a very long and painful detention process.
- dragonwriter 7mo ago> For me it's not about politics at all. Just the thought of going through TSA and immigration is enough to discourage me The conditions of TSA and the immigration system are...not independent of politics (or even independent of the top tier of most divisive partisan political issues in the current American context.)
- zelphirkalt 7mo agoSeems like many people here in Germany also don't want anything to do with the US any longer as well. I myself wouldn't go to the US, even before Trump, and recently also heard from someone else, who wants to travel around the world, that they will not be visiting the US, due to what is going on over there. Just 2 anecdotes, N=2 of course, but I can imagine many people sharing the worries or concerns about visiting the US. edit: The truth hurts apparently.
- TwoNineA 7mo agoStatistics Canada has over the last year shown that tourism to US from Canada is down by a lot and it's not getting better. Hell, as an anecdote, I keep seing ads on TV like: Come to Disneyland! We got rebates for canadians! Edit, didn't realise it was this bad: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/260223/dq260223a-eng.htm https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/260223/dq260...
- cgh 7mo agoLas Vegas hotels are currently offering to take Canadian dollars at par.
- masklinn 7mo ago> Edit, didn't realise it was this bad: It's probably not bottomed out yet, some of those trips were booked months in advance and not cancellable without taking a financial hit.
- dawnerd 7mo agoI go to Disneyland nearly every weekend and the increase in foreigners is insane. Clearly a lot of people visiting that would have been going to Florida decided on California instead.
- raw_anon_1111 7mo agoAs a Floridian who owns a unit in a condotel [1]. The property management company is outright saying that tourism is down affecting income. All of the other owners who were dumb enough to buy them as “investments” are complaining. We don’t care because we are the only people who live there mostly year round and only leave during spring break and the summer when domestic tourism is high.
- flerchin 7mo agoI took a taxi ride from Niagara (ON) to Buffalo. The Canadian driver really was leery of Americans and I apologized for everything. It's a dang shame, and I don't blame you all for feeling this way.
- cjrp 7mo agoBit off-topic, but how easy was this to do? We need to do the same crossing to pick up a rental car from Buffalo.
- flerchin 7mo agoI couldn't arrange it via app, so it seemed impossible at first. However, I asked the bellman at the hotel, and he called his taxi driver friend. I kinda overpaid from what I can tell, $100 american, but he just drove us across the bridge, passports were checked super quickly by the American side, and we continued on to Buffalo in about 40 minutes total.
- cjrp 7mo agoThanks! I'd seen Uber etc. won't cross the bridge, so looks like talking to an actual human is required :)
- mvdtnz 7mo agoDo you Americans realize it means absolutely nothing to us when one of you "apologises for" Americans? You do that for you, not us. It's weird and gross. You don't speak for Americans. Americans speak for Americans, and the message is loud and clear.
- flerchin 7mo agoWell in the taxi or seemed to be the right thing to do.
- cameldrv 7mo agoLikewise, I used to live in Germany, now in California, I used to get a fairly steady stream of old friends in town to visit, but not anymore, they essentially to a person refuse to come to the U.S.
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- jorts 7mo agoMy mom's condo complex in Hawaii used to have many owners from Canada. Over the last year, the number of units for sale has probably 10x'd from previous years.
- vjvjvjvjghv 7mo agoAre people from Qatar and UAE now buying these? Seems these are our new allies now
- selectodude 7mo agoThey were our new allies for a few weeks there and now they’re cannon fodder for Iranian shaheeds. Probably not our friends anymore.
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- jacquesm 7mo agoHi, Citizen of one of those European countries here. My new neighbours are fine, thank you.
- dotancohen 7mo agoThank you, which country? I have no doubt that they are great people. That wasn't in question. I asked if they are allies. Do you find that they support and integrate into your local culture, and support preserving that culture? Or do they bring Middle Eastern culture and expect Middle Eastern values to be expressed in your country?
- jorts 7mo agoNo idea who is buying them, but it's dropped the price of buying one by over $100K.
- RobRivera 7mo agoI'd understand the face value lack of roi. I go to europe. But to judge? Okay
- newsclues 7mo agoAs a Canadian, most of those people stating this, are broke and can't afford to travel, so the anti Trump thing is a face saving excuse. Just a observation from my personal life, my friends who aren't broke, are still going to Florida, etc.
- groguzt 7mo agoyeah dude people definitely just stopped being able to afford going to Florida when Trump decided to turn his back against it's closest ally
- whynotmaybe 7mo agoThe ones I know that have money stopped going there and went further south or in Europe. Some even go as far as booking a trip to Europe for a music concert instead of going to the US. The line between "it's expensive" and "the current situation in the US sucks" is blurred. https://globalnews.ca/news/11075088/canadian-snowbird-couple-parting-ways-with-u-s-amid-political-climate/ https://globalnews.ca/news/11075088/canadian-snowbird-couple...
- rapind 7mo agoRidiculous take that Florida is expensive like it's some kind of luxury trip. Florida was always a budget option for us. It's always been a quick, easy (you can drive), low risk break to get away from the cold. I just don't feel like dealing with CBP and random MAGAs right now to be honest. Wife is low-key stressed about the idea. I mean at best it's a hassle... so why bother?
- pcthrowaway 7mo ago90% of Canadians live within 100 km of the U.S. border, it's not much different than traveling elsewhere in Canada. Granted, as someone who lives ~40 km from the border, I'm broke and can't afford to travel, but I'm also avoiding the U.S. and have been further than 100 km from home on a number of occasions in the past year.
- barbazoo 7mo agoAbsolutely, my partner would love to visit national parks south of the border this summer but we decided we'd much rather spend our money in our own economy for the time being. That's not even considering the risk getting snatched by immigration anywhere in the country.
- Nifty3929 7mo ago"spend our money in our own economy" - a common fallacy about economies. Spending money is how you take/consume resources from an economy. If you spend money in Canada, then you are taking stuff from Canadians. If you spend your money in the US, then you are taking stuff from Americans. You might wonder what happens at the limit - why don't Canadians just spend all their money in the US and take all America's stuff (just a thought experiment)? Because currencies adjust. Canadians would need US Dollars to buy stuff in the US, and as more and more Canadians try to do that, the exchange rate would change to devalue the Canadian Dollar against the US Dollar, effectively making things more and more expensive for Canadians until they are forced to get their stuff elsewhere.
- wcarss 7mo agoThis is not true. When you spend Canadian dollars at a business owned by a Canadian, you're sending that owner and the Canadian government your money, in exchange for their goods or services, normally at a surplus of value for them. You are 'helping' them; you are 'investing' in the Canadian economy. You are justifying the existence of their business and the jobs of the people who work there. Especially insofar as you're making this choice versus American options, you are putting money into the hands of Canadians rather than Americans. This is the underlying concept behind boycotts and voting with your dollars or feet.
- bee_rider 7mo agoThere’s a decent chance the national parks will still be there in a couple years anyway. Well, I guess, they might have been auctioned off to some billionaire at that point so… the tickets will probably be pricier but the facilities should be shiny and new.
- dboreham 7mo agoNot just Canada. Everyone is wondering if they'll be arrested and thrown in the gulag. Obviously the chances of this happening are fairly small, but if you have an alternative non-fascist country to visit, why take the chance?
- jrjeksjd8d 7mo agoI think the "elbows up" rhetoric among boomers is kind of stupid, but for safety reasons I have avoided going to the US. Otherwise I probably would have travelled 5-6 times in the past year.
- Pxtl 7mo agoIt's smaller than you'd think, but more than enough to make a real dent. December 2025, statscan calculated that cross-border auto traffic was down 30% (mostly same-day trips). Air travel is only down 11%, and air travel to other countries is up 13%. https://globalnews.ca/news/11679293/us-canada-travel-rates-drop/ https://globalnews.ca/news/11679293/us-canada-travel-rates-d... They didn't break down how much of that was tourism vs work.
- clivestaples 7mo agoI was surrounded by Canadians in Arizona (BC, Calgary) and Florida (Ontario) this winter. I could not tell a difference in the RV world (2021-present) which I thought was odd given all the boycotts I read about online.
- kakacik 7mo agoCanada? Count most of the world, and whole western world (minus US for the pedants but oh boy do US expats have juicy opinions on their homeland). I live in Switzerland, and literally everybody I talk to in our circles - bankers, doctors etc. despises US right now. The idea of going there as a tourist is immediately laughed at or met with puzzled look. Professional reasons or conferences are not even brought up, its automatic no and employers usually don't even try suggesting those. We ourselves with kids wanted to do the trip either this or next summer, but hell will freeze sooner. Some meager +-10k from us, I know just a drop in the ocean but there could have been many such drops. Other, less hostile economies deserve these way more.
- hyperman1 7mo agoSomeone mentioned how they had to go to America for the job, and everyone worried for his safety. His answer: Don't worry, it is South America. Everyone felt better for him, then we all wondered how 1 year could cause such a flip.
- jacquesm 7mo agoThat's all fine and good until your plane has to land in the United States for a medical emergency. If you are really concerned about this fly Air France through Bogota.
- carlosjobim 7mo agoThe power of media influence over people's minds. People will think whatever they are told to think by their media rulers. They will feel whatever they're told to feel. So there's not much mystery to it.
- jacquesm 7mo agoSame here in Europe. I've had people volunteer to tell me they had canceled their trips and that 'as far as they're concerned that includes the rest of the future for them'. I think a lot of people were willing to forgive the USA for 'Trump 1' even if they did not understand it. But this is different.
- Marsymars 7mo agoAnecdotally, my in-laws used to visit the US a couple times every year to spend time with their daughter and my nephew who live in the US. Now instead they pay for the plane tickets to bring my nephew up to Canada.
- tinyhouse 7mo agoLess people visit the US because it's do damn expensive. That's the biggest reason for most people. Most people don't have any principles, they go where they can afford. Last year I was in NYC and Miami beach and was shocked how expensive everything was. (I know these are expensive places but that's where most tourists go - they don't visit Kansas)
- exceptione 7mo agoThose people didn't already come to the USA for starters, NYC has been crazily expensive for years. There are many reasons people might have, none are good. There is for instance also a risk factor of being harassed and detained by ICE. Cruelty and incompetence are a feature of authoritarian governance, not a coincidence. So anyone going there takes a kind of risk. As has been shown, even Europeans aren't safe from the whimsical paramilitary. EDIT: I don't think that tourism is a big factor, but as I said elsewhere, it could well be the proverbial canary in the coal mine.
- groestl 7mo agoWell, my business would be paying the trips, and everybody still refuses. So it's not the money.
- YZF 7mo agoWe did not travel to the US during Trump's first presidency either. That said, I do think some people are doing things for the wrong reasons and there is some manipulation of the masses at play here. One example is I expect most people don't really understand the tariff situation between Canada and the US and that most goods are still exempt from taxes and the agreements hold. I think some people want to punish the US for tariffs that don't exist. As a Canadian we should push back strongly against attacks on our sovereignty. We should also be somewhat concerned about the direction our neighbor is going in general. But it's also a reality that the US is very very close to us both geographically, culturally, and economically. That's not going to change. It's not an "enemy country" despite their very questionable choice of leaders. I think the correct long term direction is open borders and open trade, somewhat like the EU, and we shouldn't lose sight of that because a bad leader is in place today. It's very weird to me to see all the focus on US policies in the Canadian discourse while not enough focus on Canada. That feels like political distraction.
- rapind 7mo ago> I think some people want to punish the US for tariffs that don't exist. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the Gestapo. What a lovely time to be a foreigner travelling in the US...
- YZF 7mo agoBelieve it or not but there are some Canadians still going to the US. Gestapo is ... bullshit and FUD. Yes, we see the news about ICE. https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/border-crossing-data-annual-release-2025 https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/border-crossing-data-annual-rel... In 2025 there were about 18M personal vehicles and about 300K pedestrians crossed from Canada into the US. So yes, it's down (like 10%) but it's still a lot of people. Out of those the number of people that run into problems with the "Gestapo" is approximately, within rounding error, zero. You're a lot more likely to die in a car crash or get robbed or something. Why does everything today have to be about hyperbole? You don't want to visit the US (like me) ... well don't. You don't like Trump ... fine. You disagree with the immigration policies, enforcement whatnot... fine. But enough with this bullshit fear mongering.
- shevy-java 7mo agoWell - if you are canadian and give money to the USA then you kind of also help sustain Trump's hostile anti-Canadian rhetoric and agenda. Most Canadians live in the southern part of Canada, aka close to the USA and depend economically a lot on the USA, but increasing that economic dependency more than it already is, is not a good strategy for all Canadians. I also think Canadians should get a small nuclear arsenal, probably 25% compared to what France has (France has about twice as many people; Canada only needs a small deterrence that would drive the cost of any country being hostile against it. Not many countries can be really hostile to Canada.)
- JKCalhoun 7mo agoI hope a couple of U.S. tourists won't find any trouble driving through Alberta. Would a "We Love CANADA" bumper sticker help? (Asking for a friend.)
- mkipper 7mo agoYour chances of running into trouble are pretty close to zero unless you're wearing a 51st State t-shirt or something. I work with a a decent number of Americans who either moved here or are here temporarily, and I can't say there has been any tension. I think most Canadians who are staunchly anti-US are also aware that plenty of Americans aren't happy with their government. I can't say I've seen any vitriol towards the average American person.
- data-ottawa 7mo agoI doubt you would have any issue at all travelling in almost all of Canada. Alberta might be a bit more US friendly. You don't need the bumper sticker, or to apologize. As long as you aren't wearing MAGA gear or being bombastic about Trump, people won't really think much of it. I assume anyone visiting Canada isn't a Trump supporter anyways, as most polling shows they've decided they don't like Canada.
- _zagj 7mo ago> People have judged me for driving through the states. Meanwhile it's perfectly acceptable, if not a point of pride, for Canadians to go to Cuba, which is not only run by an actual, kleptocratic dictatorship that imprisons dissidents for decades at a time, but is also the number #1 destination in the Americas for sex tourists, including child sex tourists, with the industry even tacitly sanctioned by the dictatorship ("jineterismo").
- Pxtl 7mo agoCuba hasn't recently openly discussed plans to annex Canada by force, and to punish Canada economically for not acceding to this desire.
- _zagj 7mo ago> Cuba hasn't recently openly discussed plans to annex Canada Neither has the US. Trump specifically disavowed that every time he was asked (by the CBC). Meanwhile Cuba sent thousands of mercenaries to kill Ukrainians on behalf of Russia. > punish Canada economically Frankly, even as someone who opposes tariffs as uneconomic, given Ottawa's long-standing "constructive engagement" with the regime in Havana, even after they hosted Soviet nuclear weapons pointed at the US, even while they put AIDS patients in concentration camps, and even while they ran the island as a giant, open-air prison refusing to allow anyone to leave, it's really speaks to America's forbearance that it hasn't attempted to punish Canada economically, until now.
- Pxtl 7mo agoYou can't be serious. Did you miss all that talk of 51st state and "governor Trudeau" or "governor Gretzky?" > A reporter asked if he was "considering military force to annex and acquire Canada." > "No," replied Trump. "Economic force." https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/donald-trump-canada-51st-state-tariffs-seriously-1.7426281 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/donald-trump-canada-51st-st... "The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State. This would make all Tariffs, and everything else, totally disappear. Canadians’ taxes will be very substantially reduced, they will be more secure, militarily and otherwise, than ever before, there would no longer be a Northern Border problem, and the greatest and most powerful nation in the world will be bigger, better and stronger than ever." "If Canada merged with the U.S., there would be no Tariffs, taxes would go way down, and they would be TOTALLY SECURE from the threat of the Russian and Chinese Ships that are constantly surrounding them." https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/03/19/trump-canada-annex/ https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/03/19/trump-canada-annex/ We're into "reject the evidence of your eyes and ears" territory here.
- gardnr 7mo agoThe hotel booking websites show pricing trend data and rooms are largely “low price” currently. March isn’t exactly high season for California but it’s an interesting indicator.
- gruez 7mo agoWhile the effect was real, arrival numbers mostly recovered since august last year: https://www.economist.com/content-assets/images/20250830_WOT219.png https://www.economist.com/content-assets/images/20250830_WOT...
- fakedang 7mo agoI'm not Canadian, and I usually visit the US for business. While being a Muslim often means enduring the humiliation of being singled out because of my name by CBP, I'm comfortable enough that I could travel private for my US trips, which means the entire CBP experience is completely different (friendly chitchat and conversation as the CBP officers check our passports inside the aircraft itself). But with ICE roaming the streets, I'm not taking any chances of being deported to Libya or El Salvador or something. Which in turn means that we have severely halted all of our US investments, simply because I am unable to visit the country (!).
- burnt-resistor 7mo agoEveryone not in the US, help us: boycott, divest, and sanction everything USAian to limit the power of the criminal regime and expedite regime change.