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[–] 164 points 1 year ago (6 children)

What foreign tourists? Nobody is gonna visit out of fear of being trafficked to some random country's prison.

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

    Don't call it "being trafficked", call it "surprise random country visit".

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

    Random Gator visit. We don’t deport, we want the workers. That’s the plan. Slaves.

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

    He's making it easier and easier for me to not visit the shithole.

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

    Well, he's certainly not going for a culture victory but I think we knew that already.

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

    It's actually getting kind of hard to think of new, stupider ways to ruin the economy and raise the cost of living. Parody is getting close to being indistinguishable from reality.

    • Blanket tariffs for goods with low domestic production? Done.
    • Imprisoning laborers who do domestic farming? Yes.
    • Deporting legal, tax-paying noncitizens? Yep.
    • Pissing off citizens of countries that contribute significantly to local tourism? Indeed.
    • Asking potential tourists to pay extra for the privilege of visiting a to-be-sold-for-industrial-logging park? Why not.
    • Cutting healthcare and replacing it with a bonus for the 0.001%? Might as well!
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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago
    • Scare away all the best and brightest of the entire world that you brought to your country to give the competitive edge in science, engineering and tech.

    • Make the business climate so uncertain that nobody wants to invest anything in research or build new facilities, except in moving their facilities out of the country

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

    dumbfuck, we are in canada. where parks are free this summer.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago

    😂😂😂 Can't pay a fee if you don't go! 🤡🤡🤡

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago

    cant pay if they arnt visiting in the first place.

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

    "To fund improvements and enhanced experiences across the park system, I've just signed an executive order to raise entrance fees for foreign tourists while keeping prices low for Americans. The national parks will be about America first."

    Oh thank god! After slashing over $1 billion from the nps budget and firing over 5,000 of its workers I was beginning to think this guy maybe didn't care about the national parks. What a relief!

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    Trump, I don't need MORE reasons to not cross the border. We are already not going there....

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    Would need to have tourist in the first place

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

    There wasn't any danger of me coming to spend my money in that third world shithole anyway.

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  • [+] -23 points 1 year ago (27 children)
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I live in a country that so far has not started shipping their citizens to El Salvador with 0 due process and the majority not having any record. I live in a country that is not so far building Alligator Auschwitz which government officials are suggesting feeding all the immigrants to the alligators.

    I have a lot more examples if you would like me to post them…

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

    Tell me where you live and I’ll tell you how far away from fascism you are. The US is just a testing area.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I already know.

    That is why I wrote in my previous post so far as I do not trust my countries newest leader as he is starting leaning towards fascism(Canada). We are not there yet though unlike the states who are right now deep into fascism.

    The states are right now actively a fascist country with a drooling shit covered convicted rapist/felon who is a puppet for Theil and the rest of the project 2025 gang.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    I won’t ever visit that shithole of a country either. I live 9 ranks above the US according to the UN Human Development Index, although I’m sure that gap will widen with president Cheeto at the helm.

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  • [+] -19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    >Claims to live in better country

    >Still a mad little prick

    We really are all the same in the end.

    Also there’s 2 countries in 8th place, and I can’t tell if this is just regular European bigotry because you’re from the Netherlands and naturally dislike anyone who doesn’t ride bicycles across the province sized chunk of land you call a country, or if you’re from Hong Kong and are lashing out because another country is also getting taken over by authoritarian bastards.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    We dislike america because it is a shithole and now turning into a fascist shithole. Americans love guns more than their children, americans are uneducated by design and are only happy when they see that someone else is even worse off than them, making them make life actively worse for others.

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  • [+] -17 points 1 year ago (17 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Counting too difficult for you?

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  • [+] -14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I’m not interested in your game. 🤡

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

    What game? I provided a direct link to the info you need.

    You’re just mad because I’m pre-empting your bullshit. You ask ‘what country’ and then plan to go blabbing about how that country sucks and how much better the US is. You know just as well as me that the US is shithole by pretty much every metric.

    Crazy levels of violence, poverty, inequality, shitty standard of living unless you’re super rich, etc.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    As an American who is leaving because of this current fascist nonsense, believe me when I tell you these ignorant Americans are totally unprepared for the worldwide social rejection that is coming. They can barely handle American women telling them to fuck off and things have become notably tense in the US. They’re the worst of humanity

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

    That's a great way to discourage tourism dollars.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Amazing that a hotel owner hates tourism that much.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    So, you see, the kidnapping and human trafficking is part of the luxury package, so obviously that comes with additional fees, etc..

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

    I'm sure having to have your ID checked when visiting your own national parks won't have anything to do with ICE. This will impact Americans more than it will by costing a few extra dollars for international visitors.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I am sure they will have ice there ready to take anyone they please at the park gate now that they have a 50 billion dollar budget due to taking away everyone’s health care and more now that bbb bill passed. Travelling to the states would most likely be a death warrant to a significant amount of people.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Trump is just stupid. Many countries that rely on tourism do this, they have free or near free entry for citizens and ~$20-100 entry for foreigners. This helps them generate a significant portion of their annual budget.

    I haven't verified these numbers, but quick searching days that roughly 14–15 million foreign tourists visit U.S. national parks each year, accounting for about 4% of total park visits. If we charge $20 per person for international visitors, that's $280–300 million annually... that's... Peanuts for the US.

    I wouldn't be opposed to it at all if the fees are only used to preserve and maintain the national parks, but you know this fucker just wants to funnel the money into deep pockets.

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

    Which countries charges $20-100 for visiting an equivalent of a national park or museum? Not questioning you, but curious.

    There are places that charges a tourist tax that is for everyone not living there and paid through the hotel or tourist apartment.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    I had this happen in India, although I don’t know if it was the particular site or if it was a general policy. I saw it as paying less than I would have paid for a comparable museum at home, while citizens are encouraged to connect with their heritage. I was fine with it.

    But the US is an expensive place, so you’re only making it unobtainable. National parks should not be a profit center, and I barely agree with charging anyone. I especially disagree with requiring ID, making this logically unenforceable.

    And of course I’d expect this to turn into racism really quickly.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    I've seen this a number of places when traveling (Morocco, Thailand, Vietnam, Kenya come to mind). The price for foreigners was still quite reasonable (nowhere near $100) and it's never really bothered me. Not sure if it is an equity of access measure (local income is lower) or that they already support it via taxes etcetera. Either I think is appropriate.

    This also already happens in the US some places. There are resident and non-resident prices for some museums in NYC, or town/county run parks(think beaches). In Hawaii many attractions have kamaʻāina prices listed (aka resident).

    The above examples usually operated on the honor system. Sometimes I saw "with ID" on a sign but never saw them checked.

    I think it would be reasonable to charge slightly elevated rates to non-residents for national parks, but it should not be punitive, and it should 100% go towards supporting the parks. It's really dumb to be pushing that now though as if people don't already have a thousand reasons not to visit the US and spend their money here...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nepal and India both had places where foreigners would pay much more than locals. Fine with me, i earn much more too.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Not fine with me, not every foreign visitor to India happens to be a Swiss/US citizen enjoying the benefits of living in world’s richest countries. Yet we all get charged the same 5x of the local entry price fee for entering 95% of tourist attractions and 22x the local price when visiting Taj Mahal. And we don’t charge Indians more for entering our tourist attractions by the way

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Once he finishes logging, mining and drilling them, not many people will want to visit America's National Parks, anyway.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Newsflash: tourists avoid fascist countries.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I wanna be a handler!

    ...welcome Mr Robert Pinsky Minisky. I was sent here to pick you up from the airport on behalf of great Orange leader. Where would you like to go after we take you to your room we have meny park and a huge museum special for tourism entertainment.

    Oh Costco? Mr, Robert! That's for commoners. Let me show you the place we call store. Special for tourism!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Fuck the U. S. A. Hey ICE: fuck you! Suck my cock. You dirty cocksuckers.

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

    Wow, a whole $90 million. That will certainly offset all these tax cuts!

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  • I don't see how this is meant to ensure the law is fairly governed, nor where the constitution or legislature told the president that they could change pricing for parks. It isn't pertaining to war, and it's a pretty damn hard to see how this pertains to international affairs.

    Everyone in the government has to know this executive order shouldn't exist. Wish the Supreme Court had the integrity to just vet every executive order and suspend all of them that could be overreach upon being placed until they are reviewed.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago
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