stux⚡️Random poll:
Would you visit the US in it's current state? Either for vacation or travel. For Americans, imagine you would visit your country from somewhere else
Yes
No
I don't know
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@stux There are at least three showstopper reasons now, in the order in which they manifested themselves, any one of which would be sufficient to keep me away on its own:
(1) the guns
(2) the plague [on the plane to get there]
(3) the nazis who are now running the place
Vysogota@TimWardCam, hey don't forget the cavity search and electronic device ransacking when you land there. Which were the reasons I've never considered going there even before the current nazi leadership // @stux
@petko @stux On my one and only visit to the Lower 48 (I found Hawaii and Alaska much more friendly) the thing that put me off, immediately on arrival, was the policeman in the arrivals hall with his hand hovering over his gun. Whether he was actually dying for an excuse to shoot someone, or whether he was just shit scared of this totally harmless crowd of tourists and business travellers, I don't know. But it was by far my scariest arrival in any country. (Boston, 1980s.)
@TimWardCam @stux wow... even before 9/11????
Howitzer105mm has moved@TimWardCam @petko @stux The armed law enforcement officers are not unique to the USA.
I traveled to Taipei in 1990, with a stop in Seoul preceding, and the Korean officers had submachine guns in hand.
Last year I was in Munich and it was the same.
I could readily understand Korea given the tensions between north and south.
I was surprised about Munich.
jack@Howitzer105mm @TimWardCam @petko @stux my first time flying commercially since childhood, visiting Australia in 2010, stopover in Singapore and the airport police had actual revolvers in belt holsters - they didn't seem nervous though
but coming from London I was used to seeing police officers wandering round public spaces with assault rifles