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0 pointsfckgw20d ago0 comments

What part did they find "terrifying"?

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ICE agents shooting US citizens, the mass shootings, the school shootings, the crime rate and fentanyl 'bend' posture that makes loads of poor people look like zombies, the aggressive police with guns who sometimes shoot people, burglaries that involve shootings. A lot of the problems in America seems to stem from guns and drugs but also policy.

Even something as simple as crossing the road is unnecessarily complicated in America. Some roads you seem to need a car to get from A to B. It just doesn't seem peaceful but very chaotic and intense.

JumpCrisscross20d ago

This sounds like someone who is on social media too much. The counterpart is an American in Paris convinced the banlieu are war zones.

The actual problems: we’ve made it impossible and insulting to get a tourist visa. And we’ve made pissing on our tourism partners our foreign policy.

s_dev19d ago

>The counterpart is an American in Paris convinced the banlieu are war zones.

This isn't a counterpart because nobody is trying to explain a significant drop in tourism numbers to Paris.

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blurbleblurble20d ago

Your head's in the sand. Where I live we have bounty hunters kidnapping people into unmarked vans. For six months or more now. Would visitors likely be safe? Sure, but not necessarily and I can't blame people for being cautious and there's so much unpredictability around it, even for those of us who are familiar.

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sgustard20d ago

I have been to Rome and Taipei and Johannesburg, and crossing the road is terrifying lots of places.

nitwit00519d ago

Several Europeans have been detained at U.S. borders or during their stays, sometimes for weeks or months, even with valid documents.

Unsurprisingly, most people don't like hearing they might go to prison for no real reason.

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