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[–] wetsoggybread@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (4 children)

People should really stop going to countries that are literally dictatorships

[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Eh I don't think they're quite on the level of North fucking Korea lol

[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What a bullshit take that is.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know if you think NK is less bad than it is or the US is much worse than it is. But equating the two is pretty bonkers lol

[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

I guess they have to be equally terrible places for you for them to be fascist hellholes you shouldn't visit. They are very equitable at the moment.

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 16 points 2 days ago

It’s tourism for other countries with dictatorships.

[–] sudoku@programming.dev 13 points 2 days ago

it's literally Russian tourists, what else would you expect

[–] colonelsharki@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You’d kill Egypt’s tourist industry

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Same energy as "can't release Epstein documents, would destroy many life's"

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In February, North Korea also started to receive tourists from the West, including Australia, France, Germany and the UK. It abruptly halted tourism weeks later, however, without saying why.

C'mon! We know why. "We have all the problems of a major theme park and a major zoo and the computers aren't even on their feet yet."

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 31 points 2 days ago

All zero tourists must be furious.

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

TLDR; the article just says that it closed, but they don't say why

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And you have to get to the very last sentence for that.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Heroes, both of you.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 8 points 2 days ago

Bummer, a beach holiday just isn’t the same without the psychotic totalitarianism.

[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Gee I'll have to cancel my trip to North Korea LMAO 🤣