Developer and refugee from Reddit
The message is clear: Do not come to the United States as a tourist. Do not spend your money in the United States. Do not support businesses that operate from the United States. Our borders are closed, our economy crumbling, our government falling to fascism, and our culture dominated by a relatively small minority of aggressively ignorant morons.
Don’t come. We’ve gotten unfathomably stupid over here, and it’s no longer safe.
Is… is that real? Is this really the world I live in?
“Hey! That hurt! To get you back for it, I’m gonna punch myself in the face!”
And I support the rest of the G7’s right to form a “G6” and tell the USA to go fuck itself. And I say that as an American.
I had to double-check. It’s a real story, being carried by real news outlets.
Alternate headline: Iowa becomes first state to declare that it really doesn’t want any tourism dollars at all. Like, none.
To the people reporting this: Yes, it’s a prank by the governor. But he really did so it, even as a prank, and the news covered it. So the story can stay.
I’ve been screaming into it since November.