Or IOW the loss to tourism ends up much, much higher than just the people most obviously targeted by the occupation forces
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Also who is going to report a crime when the military might show up and start shooting
aug 31, 2025, 5:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Right. It's certainly a range there from actually afraid to merely inconvenienced and either way staying away because of it.
aug 31, 2025, 5:11 pm • 14 0 • view
The same dynamic with why international tourism has plummeted, which is also not great for DC in particular among other places.
aug 31, 2025, 5:11 pm • 17 1 • view
certainly DC has moved much lower on my list of places to visit because I don’t want to deal with this shit
aug 31, 2025, 5:14 pm • 31 0 • view
Which is a shame because it's really quite lovely and I think Americans should come see it, it's worth doing the typical tourist week with all the museums and monuments etc. I mean, it's a bit sappy, and the novelty of those things wears off quick for locals, but it really is our nation's heritage.
aug 31, 2025, 5:19 pm • 32 1 • view
And all the museums are free! I spent four years in DC in college and never tired of the National Gallery
aug 31, 2025, 6:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Amen to this. Washington DC is a beautiful place to visit, even if the humidity and mosquitoes are hell.
aug 31, 2025, 5:23 pm • 4 0 • view
This is why God invented AC and screen doors
aug 31, 2025, 5:24 pm • 5 0 • view
Yes, but that doesn't help you when you're walking around the national mall around dusk.
aug 31, 2025, 5:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Just don't come in August, honestly. There's a reason why that's when everyone leaves. It's also peak tourism because that's when lots of other people take their vacations from elsewhere. But the rest of the year it's reasonably pleasant and even June/July aren't that bad.
aug 31, 2025, 5:27 pm • 9 0 • view
I'm saying this based on a visit in July 😆 But honestly even those things couldn't ruin my trip, it's still such a great city, with so many wonderful things to see.
aug 31, 2025, 5:29 pm • 2 0 • view
September/October in DC is awesome…
aug 31, 2025, 5:29 pm • 7 0 • view
October is really the perfect place to visit huge swaths of the east coast, the leaves in New England are also beyond spectacular that time of year
aug 31, 2025, 5:31 pm • 7 0 • view
Sort of inevitable that folks sour on it because the view from outside is (unsurprisingly) the worst of it, but it is a genuinely great place, both for tourists and (many, concededly not all) the people here
aug 31, 2025, 5:23 pm • 9 0 • view
I have enjoyed my several visits to DC. Now seems like a bad time though.
aug 31, 2025, 6:01 pm • 1 0 • view
I bet the same could be said of Chicago, LA, and other places which Trump has a vendetta against. I remember when he wanted to push a Scottish farmer off his land to build a golf-course, he said he lives like a pig, in trash, and filth, it's part of Trump's evil shtick - demonization.
aug 31, 2025, 5:26 pm • 1 0 • view
It's also a very powerful immersive experience of the US imperium, particularly the neoclassical architecture and monuments. The last few times we visited, it felt very much like late-stage Rome.
aug 31, 2025, 5:37 pm • 4 0 • view
I admit I haven’t seen every neighborhood in DC but the parts I have seen are as nice as any area in any city I’ve spent time in. My daughter is at GWU and the area around their branch campus in NW DC is legit breathtaking
aug 31, 2025, 5:41 pm • 3 0 • view
I stayed at Union Station overnight with the vets group there. The Guard aren't even there all night. They left around 2300 and returned around 0500. When does most crime happen?
aug 31, 2025, 5:20 pm • 2 0 • view