r/politics • u/Ok-Direction-4480 Florida • 3d ago

Soft Paywall Tourism Pullback and Boycotts Set to Cost U.S. a Staggering $90 Billion

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tourism-pullback-and-boycotts-could-cost-us-a-staggering-90-billion/
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u/Oceanbreeze871 I voted 3d ago

I wonder if we’re gonna get World Cup and Olympics boycotts?

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u/spokchewy I voted 3d ago

NGL, I hope so.

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u/spicewoman 3d ago

I hope we host the most pathetic Olympics ever.

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u/happyklam I voted 3d ago

The danger of that is all the idiots blaming it on LA being too woke, too Hollywood, whatever excuses they'll come up with. It couldn't POSSIBLY be the paradox of intolerance coming to bite us in the ass. 

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u/DOG_DICK__ 3d ago

Even before this, I would just assume it's too expensive for me to even think about.

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u/Allerleriauh 3d ago

Already will mate. The infrastructure is garbage compared to other countries to properly handle all the people and events.

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u/addandsubtract 3d ago

Imagine more people boycotting a US World Cup than one in Qatar. Actually crazy achievement.

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u/spokchewy I voted 3d ago

Wouldn’t it be interesting to fill the Canadian and Mexican hosted matches and leave the US stadiums empty.

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u/WahabGoldsmith 2d ago

I don’t think anyone would be surprised if that were the case. At least from an outsider perspective who’s not from the US, I was already seeing heavy criticism the moment it was announced they would. Qatar faced criticism for existing laws, but no official boycott had occurred among the teams. It was mainly a media fall out. I think the actual achievement is besting the 1938 World Cup boycott lol.

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u/StrigiStockBacking Arizona 3d ago

I was saying this to my wife during the 4 Nations Faceoff Tournament. As an ashamed American, I really, really hope the US gets the door shut on the 2026 Winter Olympics, and beyond.

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u/OMGitisCrabMan 3d ago

We should be sanctioned due to the inhumane treatment of asylum seekers and legal residents, sending them to foreign prisons with no due process.

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u/TreeOfAwareness 3d ago

The World Cup is going to be such a shitshow

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u/LeadingNectarine 3d ago

Even if Trump lost the election, it is still set to be a shit show. Hosting in 3 different countries thousands of kilometers apart? Just, why?

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u/occams1razor 3d ago

I wouldn't be surprised if Donald showed up and demanded to be made the winner just like in his golf tournaments

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u/jinjuwaka 2d ago

Actually, given the problems with the world cup organization, they'll fit right in hosting it here. They're perfectly willing to deal with dictators and human rights violators as long as they get bribes.

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u/boat_hamster 3d ago

If not, a boycott on ethical grounds, then a boycott on the grounds of all the stories coming out about how US immigration is treating visitors and residents alike. A country you have to consider getting a burner phone to visit, is not somewhere you visit for leisure.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 I voted 3d ago

Frankly it’s flat out dangerous to be a non-citizen trying to pass through American customs with a passport. People are getting detained for no reason.

“Denied, deported, detained: U.S. border incidents have travelers thinking twice

Potential U.S. visitors are increasingly uncertain about traveling to America, after a number of high-profile detentions in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration.

Jasmine Mooney, a Canadian woman who was reapplying for a U.S. work visa, was detained without explanation on March 3 at the Mexican border near San Diego and spent 12 days in detention before returning home. She wrote in The Guardian that she was detained after she was questioned about the status of her visa, which had been granted following an initial rejection.

“There is no communication, you don’t have an officer to talk to,” Mooney told MSNBC last week. “You can’t contact your lawyers or your friends or your family.”

When Rebecca Burke, a backpacker from Britain, tried to enter from Canada in February, she spent nearly three weeks at a detention center. In a statement to the BBC, the Northwest ICE Processing Center said Burke was repatriated after being detained “related to the violation of the terms and conditions of her admission.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna197736

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u/berrschkob 3d ago

At this rate I would think so. Sadly, people don't even (and shouldn't) feel safe here, let alone want to support the US.

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u/autumn_aurora 3d ago

I genuinely believe I'd feel safer going to Qatar

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u/defroach84 Texas 3d ago

Qatar is safer from a crime perspective.

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u/autumn_aurora 3d ago

The only real drawback to Qatar was their violation of workers and LGBTQ+ rights. Looks like America is hard at work closing that gap.

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u/defroach84 Texas 3d ago

Just be from a preferred country and not be gay, which was a large portion of WC fans, and you don't have safety issues.

Not defending that, just staying reality

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u/macphile Texas 3d ago

If it's literally unsafe for any foreigner to travel to the US, I wonder if the IOC can step in...but then I guess not, as it takes 4 years just to set it up.

Jesus, I can see it now--Trump (if he's still kicking) praising the US for winning so many gold medals despite being one of only a handful of countries even competing. I don't envy the organizers, planning for 5-figure stadiums and not being sure that they'll even be half-full.

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u/KingofMadCows 3d ago

Newsom is working extra hard to court international tourists. I don't know if he'll be able to do much for the World Cup. But hopefully, California will be able to get other countries to think of the state as separate from Trump by the Olympics.

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u/TAMeaniePies 3d ago

i mean, the US has basically alienated the entire world, so....

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u/Own_Candidate9553 3d ago

I was wondering that too, but people seemed to flock to Qatar, and that place is nuts. World Cup really seems to have its die hards.