Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley issued a heartfelt plea to Canadian visitors this week, acknowledging the city’s tourism-dependent economy is suffering from a dramatic decline in international visitors, particularly from Canada, which represents the city’s largest international market.

“As the mayor of Las Vegas, I’m telling everybody in Canada, please come. We love you, we need you, and we miss you,” Berkley said during a press conference this week, where she addressed the multiple challenges facing the entertainment capital’s tourism industry.

The mayor’s latest comments echo concerns she first raised in an August press conference, where she painted a stark picture of the tourism decline.

“International travel is way down. People are not coming to the United States,” Berkley said last month. “’

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[–] 258 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Lol get fucked. Sent with love from Canada.

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  • [–] 107 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Ohhh, oh no! We need your tourism toonies in Las Vegas! We had no idea just how much Canadians spent on American stuff like bourbon and vacations! Ohh no, we're so sorry for those silly things we said, like threatening your sovereignty and being all condescending and dismissive.

    Echoing your sentiment from the middle of America. Get fucked! Begging for visitors like that before doing anything to make amends, ugh.

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And you just know Trump didn't learn any lesson. He 100% would do it again. I don't blame Canadians in the slightest bit. Honestly I'm happy they're voting with their wallets

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    While I get it, she is a Democrat who is likely a fan of what's going on as much as you are.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Oh, I did not realize democrats where no longer american. If when a democrat was in power maga people where considered so, then in the current situation I will hold all americans to the actions of their nation.

    Don't like it? Tough. Its the same way americans have treated everyone in the world, so enjoy some of your own medicine.

    Oh you want to say that the dems are "fine" and "nothing can be done"? Look at Nepal, and grow a spine. But don't expect the world to separate one group of americans from the rest without actions done to prove such.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    In the context of leopardsatemyface the mayor's political leanings are quite relevant. It could even be said this whole post isn't relevant to the community.

    But yeah, keep on with your singular attitude.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I don't have a singular altitude, I'm not sure why you think I would. I merely stating that a rep who has been public about her opinions on the current state of affairs is probably not the best candidate to attack.

    Edit: Appologies, I thought this was a response to me.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Oh, did the mayor take a stance counter to the current administration? No? Did she just ask the world to keep coming anyway and support her city? Yes?

    Seems to me that like most americans she is towing the national party line while wondering why the rest of the world stops supporting the us, just hoping the D beside her name will give her allies. How is this not comeuppance?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Yes, she has. She has publicly talked about her position as coming from an immigrant family.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    That's a fair point, and I found a source for it. It sounds like she is specifically complaining about the National Guard deployment, because of her immigrant background. That's great. I would like her to push for things which are virtuous even if she isn't personally connected. For example, stand up for Canada's sovereignty and decry the threats that the federal government has made, instead of just begging Canadians to come and give her city money.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah almost as much as assuming that a mayor with a D beside their name means something to the rest of the world.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not really. I, unlike you, read up on the person mentioned in the article. From an immigrant family, and critical of what's happening right now.

    You also assume my family and friends are all US-based, for which you would also be wrong.

    It's not my fault you want to rag on the US without reading. I'm guessing by the responses you are American despite playing the world view, but if I'm wrong, I'm sure your country has left and right parties, too, so don't claim to be ignorant to D vs R.

    The fact remains that there is a lot to complain about in the US that isn't someone wishing things were better.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I looked up this mayor too. I can't find much criticism of the federal admins policies. What I do find is that she is an active supporter of Israel, she voted to invade Iraq, and she has been named as one of the US' most corrupt representatives.

    So, maybe you can reflect a bit on why people aren't very ecstatic that a politician is a Democrat. As far as I'm concerned, she has aligned herself with the leopard-eating party by begging Canadians to be complicit instead of pushing back against the federal admin.

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  • [–] 173 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Imagine treating your friends like garbage and then being surprised when they don't wanna hang out anymore. My country literally threatened to invade both of our closest neighbors and friends and are now shocked that they hate us. Americans are the neighbor that constantly blasts music with their windows open and steals everyone's shit and then bitches when they don't get invited to neighborhood parties. The man-child of the Americas.

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Shut up and fuck off, TommySoda!

    I was right to yell at TommySoda; they don't visit me anymore ever since I told them to fuck off. The dirty non-visiting bastard...

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  • [–] 90 points 1 year ago

    Gee...

    Wonder why people wouldn't think Vegas is safe...

    Mayor Shelley Berkley reiterated Thursday that Las Vegas is not a sanctuary city, one day after House Republicans grilled four Democratic mayors and accused them of impeding federal immigration enforcement.

    "The city of Las Vegas is not a sanctuary city,” Berkley said in response to a question during a bimonthly press conference.“We follow federal law, and we will do everything that we are supposed to under the law in order to comply with it.”

    https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/las-vegas/mayor-says-las-vegas-is-not-a-sanctuary-city-3316441/

    Like, she acts like people can't just look up what she was saying six months ago...

    “We have a responsibility, if someone comes into the municipal jail, to notify ICE, and then it’s their responsibility to take it from there,” Berkley said. “As long as the sheriff is comfortable with that and is using the resources he has to do the job that the city of Las Vegas and the county has tasked him with, then I’m very comfortable with that.”

    Why risk going to Vegas when a drunk and disordly could cause you to be held by ICE for months? Even if you legally crossed the border, ICE is detaining actual US citizens too.

    Anyone with shitty enough risk management for that to seem like a safe bet, either isn't a gambler or already lost all their money on other stupid bets.

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  • [–] 66 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Most of the comments are talking about ICE and Canadians disliking the current American regime, which is true. But also Vegas isn't fun anymore. It's so overpriced for what it is. The ruthless corporate nickel and diming exploitation has ruined Vegas as a destination.

    If the mayor of Las Vegas wants people to visit, instead of begging Canadians to come back, try telling MGM and Caesars to entice visitors with some deals and value for their money.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago

    It’s ridiculously overpriced there now.

    A high chance of being shipped to an Alligator Auschwitz Concentration (soon to be death) Camp and treated like what happened to the South Koreans. No thanks.

    Also you americans seem to have forgotten that your fascist child rapist president threatened to annex Canada and continues to do so.

    Get bent.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah I agree on it being overpriced. Visited Vegas last year and it was rough.

    • No cheap eats, buffets are all gone post-covid.
    • Tables have $25 minimums
    • Blackjack dealers have auto-shufflers for cards
    • $2 buy in to lose money at 000 roulette
    • Hotels are all crammed with service and resort fees
    • Majority of casino floor space is now dedicated to slots
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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, for me, the current political situation means I wouldn't go there even if everything was free.

    And the current Vegas pricing means I wouldn't go there even if it was safe.

    Though even if it was free and safe, it would still require some thought.

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  • [–] 66 points 1 year ago

    So much of Nevada is a handful of mobbed up white nationalists and ultra-conservative Zionists profiteering off the sweet and tears of a migrant Latino working class. The city is a hive of scum and villainy kept afloat by the hard work of the large, active, and occasionally quite radical labor left.

    If it wasn't fully immersed in US military bases and California Techie Fascists, it could be ground zero for a full blown socialist movement. Instead, it's just a pit where natural resources go to burn, so that a few dozen oligarchs can be billionaires and a few million service sector workers can enjoy above average wages.

    Maybe we just push the whole thing off the Hoover Dam already.

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  • [–] 128 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Sorry, but your federal government snatches people off the streets and sends them to concentration camps. We know of at least one Canadian citizen that was kidnapped by ICE, who then died in their custody.

    This is in addition to your president threatening to annex us, and starting a trade war for no discernible reason.

    No, I will not be visiting. A regime change won't help either.

    It will never go back to the way things were, and that's on you collectively.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    But wait! There's more! You can also receive a free deportation to a partner country of our choosing regardless of your country of origin!

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's going to be generational trauma. Trust will have to be built with the youth, as adults have already said no.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    That's going to be generational trauma. Trust will have to be built with the youth, as adults have already said no.

    Ending this regime is meaningless if the machinery that enabled it remains intact. The ICE agents that are lustily performing their duties will still live there, and will absolutely vote for more of the same.

    There's a segment of the population that still won't get off their asses to vote as though their way of life depended on it.

    Passage of time alone, is woefully inadequate to repair what was vandalized.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Here is my most Canadian reaction.

    Bwahahahahahaaaaa... No.

    Et pour l'autre langue officielle:

    Honhonhonghonhooon... Non.

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    [–] 44 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We need you...r money!! And we miss you...r money!!

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I wish I was Canadian just so I could use this.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago

    Why would I want to visit any city in that fascist shit hole when there is an entire world of free countries to visit.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago

    Too bad MAGAts have chased away people from entering this country.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Have the day Nevada voted for.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Aw gee, that sounds like a really specific problem that would have really specific cause and solution, I wonder what it could be.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    you guys are having a nation-wide hunt for people who aren't mourning a neo-nazi supporting piece of shit the way you want them to, and trying to ruin their lives.

    I'm gonna stay away, thanks. finish taking out the trash first

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago

    "Come to Las Vegas! Win a free trip to El Salvador if you accidentally get swept up in an ICE raid!"

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Lol.

    Did they think owning the libs was going to be free?

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago

    Fascism is unpopular.

    Shocking I'm sure.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Hey, try this instead:

    "We have an armed response force ready to protect you against ICE if they come to try to snatch you. We have lawyers at the ready, and we're fine mobilizing the state's National Guard if it comes to that. If you're in another part of the country and worried about your safety, come to Vegas! You can do some gambling and see the sights without worrying if you're going to make it home to your family or not."

    Guaranteed spike in tourism. Don't just ask for what you want. Earn it.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I'm American, have never been to Vegas and was planning a trip. Then all my bills went up. My insurance alone tripled. I now fear traveling state to state as I don't trust the police in red states so no driving through them. I no longer trust the TSA to not arrest me for what I post online so no more flying. I think I will stay right here for the foreseeable future as travel just isn't important to me right now. Would I love to travel? Yes. I need to feel safe and secure in it and to not be financially ruined by it. Right now I just need to focus on making sure my housing and food is secured. I don't have time or security to focus on anything else.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago*

    Same here. I’m much darker than my own mother and have spent a lot of time during my childhood in the 70s and 80s being asked if my parents had an “interracial marriage”, oh AND I have tattoos ( god forbid, but dark people with tattoos are seen as gang members by the current administration.) I haven’t traveled outside this country since pre-COVID and I believe the next time I’m able to afford it, I’m going somewhere that will allow me to stay permanently. The current administration terrifies and angers me, and the other side not doing anything about it has me wondering why I’m still here.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    I can promise you TSA doesn't give a flying fuck about anything besides the water bottle in your backpack. Other agencies, sure, but the TSA itself is only concerned if you're trying to bring a prohibited item through security. Unless the FBI has tagged you as a terrorist or something they could care less.

    Edit: yeah there are still bad actors and racists out there, but I'm trying to say that the TSA agent isn't gonna stop and go "wait a second you posted cringe on twitter" unless another agency tells them to. "But my agent was a jerk and profiled me" yeah there are jerks, it's surprisingly low effort to be an asshole. I'm just saying TSA (and just the TSA) has their head too far up their ass and is too lazy to try and monitor every single person who wants to take a flight themselves.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    TSA just loves to power trip. Last trip my pre check got messed up so my wife and daughter went through and got on the plane, and I got sent to the 45 minute other line. They let a handicapped person go right ahead of me and skip the line when I finally got to the front (normally okay, but now I had 10 minutes left to run to the plane for final boarding). They flagged my bag for extra checking because there were baby wipes in there, and when I asked if they could check mine first before the guy who got placed in front of me, he yelled at me that I should have been at the airport 2 hours ago and it wasn't his problem if I missed my flight and my wife and daughter flew without me.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    Wrong, almost missed my flight out of Kansas recently because the guy checking IDs pulled the person I was with aside for a full search, because they looked Latina (he said he thought her ID was fake). She had to stand there for 45 minutes waiting to be searched, no one could help her or search her. Finally I pitched a white woman tantrum at another older white woman working and she got her out ASAP. Her ID and everything was fine. He was just racist and wanted to harass her because he could. What a fucker

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Maybe today but do you think Orange Man won't weaponize the TSA given a reason or opportunity?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Isnt Vegas a conservative shit hole? As a Canadian fuck off. I saw that bald maga prick from pawn stars complaining about the lack of tourism, well you voted for this shit

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Yes, it's a conservative shithole. Pretty much all of Nevada is. I noticed when I went to work conferences there that there seemed to be more conservative events happening compared to how it was 15 years ago.

    Vegas effectively priced out middle class/poor families out of a budget friendly vacation. Now it's just rich people, poor people acting rich, and employees attending conferences now. As an American minority, Vegas isn't a safe place to visit anymore. They want my money but not see me there.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    NV was slightly blue in previous 3 elections, or at least very close. It was close again, but the "no taxes on tips" bribe made Trump win, and the bribe was only made to win NV. LV tip earners total after tax earnings are probably down now.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Flush the orange turd and any wipe way any remaining shit spackles, then we'll discuss holiday plans.

    Sincerely, the same half of the UK.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    “International travel is way down. People are not coming to the United States,” Berkley said last month. “’

    I guess international travelers don't like being assaulted by Trump's Gestapo and disappeared into a gulag. Who knew?

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    From Canada with love: fuck you

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    Canadian here. Nice try, ICE.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    How much of it is Canadians staying away because of fascism, or how much of it is staying away because Vegas is too goddamn expensive?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    back when i was a kid (~ 1980s) my mom used to go to vegas once or twice a year. not for the gambling, but for the affordability of the whole vacation. flights, hotels, food, shows--all of it used to be really, really cheap. don't know when it changed, but yea, it certainly is not that anymore.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It was the mafia, the mafia did it cheaply, the multinationals are much more thieves than good old Don Vito.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    The Mafia didn't make their money on hotels...

    They didn't even really make it on gambling.

    They made their money loaning money to gambling addicts and charging interest. Besides laundrying money that's why they got into casinos, a steady stream of desperate idiots who would take out loans.

    The cheapness of Vegas was the same as a crack dealer giving out the first hit for free, just to try it.

    A certain percentage get hooked immediately

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Maybe it would help if our President wasn't threatening Canadian sovereignty, and the cult wasn't cheering it on.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    As the mayor of Las Vegas, I’m telling everybody in Canada, please come. We love your money, we need your money, and we miss your money,” Berkley said during a press conference this week

    This is what I read

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Fuck off America. 🇨🇦’s not coming back. You’re too dumb to even know why. 🖕🖕🖕

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    We know why and the majority of us are depressed about it. But yeah, do not come here until the US remembers that we're part of a global community. We're not gonna get better without some hardship first.

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