Would you visit USA in the current climate?

Firstly, how exactly does the above relate to my post? Secondly how you propose we run these wish exams which is a very vague concept.

It's not illegal to insult a person in Germany or write a bad review of a hotel.

Source: Me. I live in Germany.

Business owners can ask that a bad review is taken down. If it's not, they can threaten to sue. So a lot of review places take them down automatically because the publisher is held liable in Germany. In the civil case of libel, the site it's on would have to prove that the review is accurate.

It is not a criminal act to leave a bad review. The police will not be coming for you. You will not be arrested. You will not be brought in front of a judge. It's not illegal in the slightest.

A workaround that a lot of people use for leaving reviews is to say "My original review was removed at the request of the business". That gets across the point that you were trying to make.

Ireland has similar laws whereby sites can be held liable for the material that's published on them. But it's a lot harder to bring a civil case against them. Nonetheless, if you were to start spouting lies about someone here, you would find the mods removing the comments pretty fast, just in case.

I was banned from reddit for a post where I estimated based on UN numbers of previous Israeli incursions the amount of Palestinians would be murdered.

Israel surpassed my estimate months ago.

They can be prickly about criticizing Israel on the world news fora.

How did that happen considering pre clearance in Dublin didn't start til 2011?

As posted earlier here that I was going and was looking forward to it, came home over the weekend and had an absolutely brilliant holiday.

Boston and Washington are two brilliant cities steeped in history, two very different cities, great hospitality, lots of choice for food (Washingtons ethiopian food scene was great) great bars, great weather. If American history is your thing both are full of interesting sites and architecture in Washington is quite impressive, that whole American Empire time is fascinating.

Elephant in the room time, passport control took around 30 seconds, two questions business or pleasure? Address when in States? Usual ESTA process, social media is still optional. National guard in Washington yeah saw a few policing corners, reminded me of the guards around corners of Naples guns in hands and seemed to be wandering around saw very little in the way of crime and was all over the city, on subway in suburbs as well.

Government shutdown did hamper the trip but will happily will go back to Washington to see what we missed, Price was an issue and it's defo a more expensive country than it wss before though this may have been the cities. Alot less homeless and drug addicts than I saw in Vancouver this time last year which I found strange.

I'd recommend the cities to people and it reinforced my believe majority of stuff ya see online is grossly exaggerated when it comes to USA and whoever is the president at the time.

I have very little interest in going to a middle eastern dictatorship so likewise my interest in going to a North American one is low?

On a serious note the rate of Trumps notable decline could eventuate with two outcomes, either he becomes too senile to actually spew rubbish, or he gets worse and starts threatening to to cancel the US participation in the tournament. Although if he still does manage to stay awake he'll probably want to present the cup after a long rambling diatribe berating all the mean people.

Potentially a few European countries could cobble together venues if Trump does axe it. I think Mexico became host when Columbia couldn't as scheduled so switching host isn't without precedent.

On the plus side many analysts estimate that the USD could slide all the way to $1.30/euro by mid next year if the broad Trump tariff rate continues, so some saving to be had going west.