A 21-year-old tourist has described the horrendous treatment he allegedly received after being denied entry to the USA due to a meme depicting JD Vance as bald being found on his phone
Don’t tourists know by now that visiting the US in 2025 is like visiting Germany in 1938?
There are plenty of beautiful place to see and great people to meet in Europe too, and you can see and meet them all without subjecting yourself to Gestapo-style thuggery upon arrival.
Assuming you’re coming from the US, where are you coming from? Driving or flying? Troy’s travel tips and unsolicited advice for free, this evening only!
Aha, “just south of me”, I say from a thousand miles away.
If you’re a mountains person, yeah BC is the place to be. But it’s also same-same as what you can see in a lot of places in the US in the mountains. Like, you won’t tell the difference between much of BC and much of Washington.
If you’ve got the time, go straight north from your location. Way way north. Go to Yellowknife, and do it in March – it’s about three days driving. You’ll get there and they’ll have northern lights galore, ice castles on the lake, people driving their trucks on the ice to their houseboats that have just frozen into the ice for the season…
Or go in summer and go fishing there. The lake is 600m (1900ft) deep… Trout like tuna.
I suggest visiting Lake Okanagan. Take a wine tour. Pick some fruit. Go swimming at Skaha Lake. It’s the most beautiful part of Canada in my books, with Banff a close second.
gramie already mostly answered in line with what I’d say: there is an alt-right political shift there, where the lunatics are running the asylum and we keep expecting for sanity to re-emerge. Every country has a pocket like this somewhere. Most people in Calgary are perfectly nice, in the same way that most people in Omaha are perfectly nice, until a trans person is on TV.
The NDP just won 2/3 of last weeks byelections here. We do have a loud minority voice of right wing crazy but if anything the province is moving away from the right.
They’re trying very hard to be Texas north. The Premier of the province is ignoring science and, in many cases, logic. Anti-vax. That’s one reason they have more measles than the entire USA. There is even a fringe group that wants Alberta to secede from Canada and join the US.
The economy is largely based on oil, so many of them deny climate change.
Ironically, they have some of the most beautiful scenery in the country, if not the world.
At this point absolutely! Things are only going to escalate. Especially once elections time comes around and the US citizens realize there won’t be another legitimate election.
If you’re going to the US, backup your data and wipe your phone clean of everything personal. Play dumb, leave Facebook & Instagram installed etc.
Don’t do anything remotely fancy, because these mf-ers are just entitled children with a gun, they own you.
Or visit Europe
There are plenty of beautiful place to see and great people to meet in Europe too, and you can see and meet them all without subjecting yourself to Gestapo-style thuggery upon arrival.
For now. It’s not looking to bright over here either, but compared to the US it’s much better ofc.
Or come to Canada. We’re mostly nice. Ignore those bots in Albertastan
Hoping to visit soon this summer! Not too thrilled with the idea of having to come back home, with all this going on.
Assuming you’re coming from the US, where are you coming from? Driving or flying? Troy’s travel tips and unsolicited advice for free, this evening only!
Hoping to head out to BC and maybe Alberta last, depending on the amount of time I have. I’ll be driving, I live in Montana so I’m close.
Aha, “just south of me”, I say from a thousand miles away.
If you’re a mountains person, yeah BC is the place to be. But it’s also same-same as what you can see in a lot of places in the US in the mountains. Like, you won’t tell the difference between much of BC and much of Washington.
If you’ve got the time, go straight north from your location. Way way north. Go to Yellowknife, and do it in March – it’s about three days driving. You’ll get there and they’ll have northern lights galore, ice castles on the lake, people driving their trucks on the ice to their houseboats that have just frozen into the ice for the season…
Or go in summer and go fishing there. The lake is 600m (1900ft) deep… Trout like tuna.
Unsolicited advice ends ;)
Hey, thanks for that advice! I’ll definitely have to go check those places out! :)
How do we know you aren’t just a sentient mosquito. Isn’t it the national bird of northern Canada?
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I suggest visiting Lake Okanagan. Take a wine tour. Pick some fruit. Go swimming at Skaha Lake. It’s the most beautiful part of Canada in my books, with Banff a close second.
I’d ignore Quebec, anywhere else is beautiful.
hmm, I was thinking about visiting Calgary this summer. What’s up with Alberta?
gramie already mostly answered in line with what I’d say: there is an alt-right political shift there, where the lunatics are running the asylum and we keep expecting for sanity to re-emerge. Every country has a pocket like this somewhere. Most people in Calgary are perfectly nice, in the same way that most people in Omaha are perfectly nice, until a trans person is on TV.
The NDP just won 2/3 of last weeks byelections here. We do have a loud minority voice of right wing crazy but if anything the province is moving away from the right.
Wish you luck 🤞
I am involved in local governance here and its not fun under the UCP but its not the bleak right wing hellscape the rest of the nation says it is.
They’re trying very hard to be Texas north. The Premier of the province is ignoring science and, in many cases, logic. Anti-vax. That’s one reason they have more measles than the entire USA. There is even a fringe group that wants Alberta to secede from Canada and join the US.
The economy is largely based on oil, so many of them deny climate change.
Ironically, they have some of the most beautiful scenery in the country, if not the world.
If you have to go to the US as part of a business trip for work, just resign. It’s safer.
Or, if at all possible, don’t do business with the US.
At this point absolutely! Things are only going to escalate. Especially once elections time comes around and the US citizens realize there won’t be another legitimate election.
Montreal’s reeeal nice this time of year.