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It’s ok not going to the USA, it is more of a problem when they rock up in your country and use a tomahawk on your kids school.
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It isn't safe.
World cup teams should also skip the usa
No one should be visiting the US for the foreseeable future.
Or after
Given how big the LGBTQ+ community is in the games industry, they really need to host this in Vancouver or Toronto until things settle down in the USA.
Maybe they should move GDC somewhere less terrible for a couple years. Let Japan have it or something.
Brilliant Idea!
There is a gamedev conference that accompanies Gamescom in Germany every year.
It has lived in the GDCs shadow up until know, but game (the organisation that organises the whole thing) should understand this as a chance
Strong 1930s Germany vibes
I already wouldn't have gone to that country if you paid me. They let any idiot carry a fucking gun.
Oddly that scares me less than the ones under payroll.
I'm not gonna say gun violence isn't a problem here but...this reminds me of rightwingers going on about violence in Chicago. The reality is that most of the gun violence is isolated to certain areas and Chicago is a big place....the US is even bigger.
And it's not like you're being invited to visit a high school
We have lost 1.5 million people to gun violence the last three decades. More than every US soldier in every war combined. To pussy foot around with this is pretty ridiculous.
What proportion of those are people visiting for work or tourism?
It's ridiculous to downplay in the sense of the domestic response. But in terms of risk in this context, it's not a factor.
Perception is more important than actual risk to most people. This is especially poignant considering you don't have to visit the US on vacation and can just go somewhere else.
Let me ask you this, if you knew a nation was at war and losing about 50k citizens every year to said war would you want to visit? I think most sane people would say no.
I am reminded of the UK citizen who just went to visit her father in Texas who shot her after explaining it would be okay for Trump to rape her because he has other daughters.
I mean I am sorry, but the US is now worse than backwards Middle Eastern countries that are also statistically pretty damned safe. Doesn't mean people want to visit either though.
The mind boggles that you understand this but want to encourage people to do the irrational thing instead of put the statistics in context. I get not trying to persuade people the US is safe to travel to (from the pov of gun violence) but why would you try to persuade them that it isn't???
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Still, even the safest US states would rank among the most dangerous EU countries in terms of gun violence and gun related homicides.
I don't dispute that (I'd even wager that the safer state is worse than the most dangerous eu country) but it's not like it's commonplace to get killed by a stranger. You're more likely to die during travel unless you're specifically traveling to dangerous neighborhoods
That's true. I used to travel to Saint Louis quite regularly for work about ten years ago. It always seemed fine, at least on the surface.
Hilariously one of the more statistically dangerous cities in the country lol
I lived in Chicago for over 20 years and while I did see someone ditch a stolen car and escape the stereotypically-fat cops by jumping on a train, I never even heard gunfire.
I know. It still feels odd to me as a Dutchman though to know that there's dozens of gun related crimes going on all the time.
A big portion of them are gang violence, meaning it's targeted and not something you'd ever see. Like Mexico has an even bigger gang violence problem, but plenty of people travel there all the time.
Also, some of those gun crime numbers are "guy got arrested for drugs and had a gun on him", not necessarily gun violence.
I don't love it either but you and I are probably have a similar chance of dying to gun violence even if the statistics say I'm 200% more likely to
When I wanted to visit the uNazied States of america the guns being prevalent wasn't an issue. I'd have to be very unlucky to get shot whilst visiting the attractions I wanted to see.
Now, admittedly, it was a long time ago when I thought about visiting, and it was more like a "if I ever win the lottery then I'll visit xxxx place" type thing.
Then their 2016 elections came along and ever since then there's no fucking chance I'd ever go. You couldn't pay me to visit.
What's the point in having loads of cash if I'm being detained and locked up for who knows how long, and then being deported to an El Salvadorian death camp!!
Which company or indie dev would want to pay through the ass for the very real risk of having their people kidnapped by ICE and shoved in a concentration camp for weeks or even months, without any kind of (functional) appeal process?
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the ticket is 500-1000 usd anyway. like wtf lol.
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