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
Yet another Josh 
[4] With this partial government shutdown shit, TSA and air traffic controllers are basically enslaved (forced work without pay). FAA has announced a serious curtailing of flights.
Sick-outs are also a thing. So even if they can't legally unionize, whoops, "SICK".
This country isn't safe for anything for the foreseeable future. Stay away, and stay away from any planes that come through airspace.
@crankylinuxuser @stux I'm sure some version of the I'M SAFE rule applies to ATCOs just as it does to pilots. It is absolutely correct to declare yourself sick if you decide (and it's only you that can decide) you're unsafe because of, say, lying awake at night worrying about how to feed the children.
Thats the problem. We already faced something like this 44 years ago. The employees lost, when Reagan fired all of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_strike
In the USA, we also have no real employment policies that humanize humans. I could even be fired for this social media comment if my employer found and disapproved it.
We also have 0 guaranteed sick leave. I used to work in food service (Subway, Starbucks, Donatos - pizza). I routinely showed up sick, infecting peoples' food. If I tried to call in sick, I would be threatened with 0 hour weeks or fired. Both are completely legal, too.
The USA now is a culmination of thousands of factors that really make us a 3rd world pariah state with a 1st world military. And they will(?), no, have already used the military against the citizenry.
ReallyCanadianFly@crankylinuxuser @TimWardCam @stux the real problem back then was that the population supported him. As long as the slaves think they're free, nothing changes. Some good developments recently though, I hope they're a trend.