They have been hit with a slump because Vegas is too expensive for the average person now.
Everything is a fee, costs have soared.
They used to entice huge crowds with free buffets, free drinks, cheap entertainment, so you’d come and gamble and spend. Now they decided to focus on high rollers.
You don’t want to pay for a $70 room that has $220 in extra fees, as well as one of those fridge sensors that charge you $8 for a bottle of water if you sneeze on it?
You don’t want to pay $40 to have a Lyft take you two miles away to then spend $50 gambling at a dead casino while a waitress is demanding you order something or leave? So you order a $10 coke and she gets pissed you only gave her a $2 tip?
Furious that your $50 gamble disappeared in a few minutes, you don’t like paying $30 for a mediocre burger that’s half cooked at the casino restaurant? And when you call out the issue, a manager gives you a $10 coupon to gamble?
You don’t like spending $120 to watch a show that you literally cannot buy tickets at the door, but instead have to go online through their ticketmaster-like service that charges you four different “convenience” fees which then allow you to show your phone at the guy at the door to let you in? Then you see that you can also buy a Coors Light for $18 dollars?
You don’t like any of that?
Oh and if this is too specific, let’s say this is grounded in reality.
They used to entice huge crowds with free buffets, free drinks, cheap entertainment
This hasn’t been true in 25 years.
So they’ve been enshittifying for a long time then
Vegas should not exist.
It’s a product of the world’s most uptight puritan society. People walk around drunk pushing strollers while billboard trucks selling whores drive by, or head to the “entertainment” where everyone is guaranteed to lose.
Don’t worry, it is unlikely the US will pull out of this tailspan of shutting itself out from the rest of the world (in every way but military intervention ughh), and as a result Las Vegas is a dead city walking especially with the climate of the area functioning as a fast approaching cliff face for humans who want to keep living there despite nature giving every sign possible to them to get the hell out.
I am going to enjoy watching Las Vegas decay, shrivel up and die.
So many people will die, that’s nothing to celebrate
The city will die nothing can stop that, the people and communities don’t have to however, what determines that is a willingness to talk about this NOW not when the really bad months of hardly livable conditions get worse and worse.
There are already homeless encampments under bridges and in parking garages so dangerous even police are afraid to enter.
Police are generally terrified of everything they enter including their spouses, that is like saying “that hanging plastic sheet is so scary even horses get spooked by it!”.
Denial is a strong American pass time :(
They did not have enough resources to sustain it when they built a ton of new houses back in the early 2000’s and they never fucking stopped building. Even after the crash and the majority of their market went underwater. They just kept building.
They voted for this, hard to feels sorry for them
Exactly. The Oil Market casino screen game and stock market trading screen games and new sports betting systems are attracting plenty of gamblers. They voted for a casino owner entertainer to stimulate their minds.
This article reads like ai
Trump owned casinos and golf courses. Entertainment provider. Sports team owners entertainment cults. Worshipers of billionaires USA MAGA Trumpism. Now much of it is online sports gambling and political party gambling. Owned hearts and minds nation concerned about the bling bling gold decorations of Vegas and Trump buddies.
Never forget November 8, 2013 private jet flight. Phil Ruffin private jet… Treasure Island Hotel and Casino and Circus Circus Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. 50% of the Trump International Las Vegas. Never forget that November 8, 2013 private jet flight. Giving the A-OK to the kickoff of hot Ukraine war and status of the Internet Research Agency that was kicked off in early 2013. It isn’t just the Epstein Treasures Island private jet circles.
People eat this billionaire worship shit up.
What does that article about Putin from 2013 have to do with Trump or the Ukraine war?
Lib whose brain is totally melted by Russiagate nonsense.
Lib whose brain is totally melted by Russiagate nonsense.
140 character or less Musk Twitter-messaging addict. Little one-line anti-intellectual anti-citation pro-mockery sound-bite values. Worshiper of Fox News HDTV, Rupert Murdoch NYC media, cults to billionaire thinking USA society. People who cheer on MAGA and Donald Trump for the mental health jokes and brain disorder laughs. Always avoiding science of Dr. Bandy X Lee’s 27 leaders since year 2017 in favor of laughing at Donald Trump’s mental problems, LOL LOL LOL meme society.
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a (year 1995) foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning — not just of science, but of anything — are avoidable, even undesirable.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995, page 59
What the hell are you talking about? You are talking to a communist, not a “Worshiper of Fox News”.
What the hell are you talking about?
Carl Sagan book, page 59. Do you have serious reading problems? Do you know how to find a public library and what 'Page 59" of a book means?
You are talking to a communist,
Repeating: 140 character or less Musk Twitter-messaging addict. Little one-line anti-intellectual anti-citation pro-mockery sound-bite values.
Repeating: “The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less)” - Carl Sagan. Book, on paper.
What does that article about Putin from 2013 have to do with Trump or the Ukraine war?
it’s really hard to know where to begin on such a simple one-line question. There are so many low-information upvoters and voters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_information_voter There are so many possibilities of what you do not comprehend or understand. Let me try to get some baseline here:
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Do you know of Trump and Putin meeting in Alaska August 15, 2025 - their long-standing mutual admiration? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Russia–United_States_summit
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I mentioned several times in my comment the private jet flight on November 8, 2013 - which comes before the “that article about Putin from 2013” - have you studied the flight records and owner of the private jet?
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Timing. November 8, 2013 weekend Trump goes to Moscow. December 2013, the linked article discusses new International movement and “Call to power” all across the world. February 20, 2014 is when the Ukraine hot war started. After the softening up (of minds on WWW) by the Internet Research Agency almost all of year 2013.
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The December 20, 2013 article starts “Vladimir Putin is calling on the conservatives of the world to unite — behind him.” - Do you understand that Donald Trump is a world leader conservative?
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Are you familiar with the Internet Research Agency revelations https://www.facebook.com/konstantin.rykov/posts/10210621124674610 by Константин Рыков from November 12, 2016? “Настало время замечательных историй. Расскажу вам о том (теперь уже можно), как мы с Дональдом Трампом приняли решение освободить Америку и сделать её снова великой. На это нам понадобилось целых 4 года и ещё 2 дня. Всё началось ночью с 6 на 7 ноября 2012 года.”; “Дальше оставалось только загрузить эти данные в информационные потоки и социальные сети.”
Or is it some other comprehension issues? Again, I am not sure where to begin on such a complex issue and topic.
That article is an opinion piece not real journalistic reporting, Don’t you think if Donald Trump was uniting behind Putin he’d be supplying him with billions in arms, instead of giving billions in arms and other aid and being the main supporter of his adversary Ukraine?
Are you familiar with the Internet Research Agency revelations https://www.facebook.com/konstantin.rykov/posts/10210621124674610 by Константин Рыков from November 12, 2016? “Настало время замечательных историй. Расскажу вам о том (теперь уже можно), как мы с Дональдом Трампом приняли решение освободить Америку и сделать её снова великой. На это нам понадобилось целых 4 года и ещё 2 дня. Всё началось ночью с 6 на 7 ноября 2012 года.”; “Дальше оставалось только загрузить эти данные в информационные потоки и социальные сети.”
Facebook is not a reliable source. Are you familiar with the revelations about Eglin AFB being the US equivalent to the IRA ‘bot/troll army’?
You’re just throwing out random things, do you have an overall cogent point?
lol peep this guys post history, completely unhinged russiagate brain soup. It’s like BMF posting if BMF was a liberal who has been spiraling ever since the 2016 election.
Damn, yeah I’m wasting time they’re completly BlueQ-Consumed
Damn, yeah I’m wasting time they’re completly BlueQ-Consumed
What the hell is “Blue-q”? Some fiction fantasy shit you read on Lemmy and Reddit? Musk Twitter?
I am pro-science, pro-reality. What the hell is “BlueQ”?
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new ones rise.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995, page 241.
What the hell is “BlueQ”?
People who believe in Qanon conspiracies with a liberal bent, such as Russiagate i.e. despite all the evidence to the contrary such as Trump supporting Ukraine militarily against Russia, they still insist the ‘Agent Krasnov’, Steele Dossier bullshit is real
Agreed, once you defer your critical thinking to western billionaires and their owned ‘journalistic’ outlets(the same that insisted that the Curveball evidence Saddam had WMDs were true, when it was clearly false e.g. whole passaged of it were lifted from the script for the rock(1996)), you’ve given Western billionaire charlatans power over your thinking instead of applying critical thinking to ever piece of media you consume no matter the source
lol peep this guys post history, completely unhinged russiagate brain soup.
You speak in your ignorance “LOL” laughs. Anti-intellectual. Always a chucklehead.
Dr. Bandy X Lee’s 27 leaders are ignored by social media users who LOLcow milk Donald Trump for mental health comedy and brain damage laughs and humor. People who “LOL” year after year in their anti-science anti-reality meme life. Rupert Murdoch cultists, Elon Musk cultists, etc.
LOL cow milker society of MAGA Trump Internet.
- “When NPD and psychopathy combine, they form a pattern of behavior called malignant narcissism. This isn’t a diagnosis, but a term coined by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm and elaborated on by personality disorder expert, Otto Kernberg, to describe people so driven by feeling special that they essentially see other people as pawns in their game of kill or be killed, whether metaphorically or literally. Hitler, who murdered millions, Kim Jong-un, who’s suspected of ordering his uncle’s and brother-in-law’s deaths, and Vladimir Putin, who jokes about “liquidating journalists” — no doubt all fall in the category of malignant narcissist (among possessing other pernicious traits, like sadism, or delight in hurting others).” ― Bandy X Lee, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. PUBLISHED October 3, 2017. Page 58.
russiagate brain soup
You can’t cite or quote serious nonfiction sources. You live in meme brain rot and Rupert Murdoch brain rot mindsets. Anti-science, meme fiction addicts.
- “Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a (year 1995) foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning — not just of science, but of anything — are avoidable, even undesirable.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995, page 59
Facebook is not a reliable source.
Константин Рыков
Константин Рыков Is not a reliable source? Just because he posted on Facebook? So, your comment isn’t a reliable source because you use Lemmy? What ignorance.
"Всё началось ночью с 6 на 7 ноября 2012 года.” - Константин Рыков
Specific dates have been INDEPENDENTLY verified.
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June 2, 2014 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america … which references year 2013 … "The Internet Research Agency itself, founded last summer, now employs over 600 people and, if spending levels from December 2013 " (Ukraine hot war started February 20, 2014)
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August 24, 2018 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45294192 Evidence going back to year 2014 validated by Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University independently.
That article
I give a NUMBERED list and you can’t explain “that” meaning, what specific.
Oh, you write on paper, paper isn’t always reliable, so we can’t trust the source because it was sourced on paper. What a terrible grasp of fact-checking and validating ideas. Modern meme addict thinking.
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Conspiracy theory
Conspiracy theory
Yes, people who avoid serious nonfiction books and get all their information off meme sites like Reddit, Bluesky, Twitter, Truth Social. People who trust information based on the Sponge Bob meme decorations. Gullible app users who think Fox New, Rupert Murdoch, is sincere and honest.
“Conspiracy theories have long been used to maintain power: the Soviet leadership saw capitalist and counter-revolutionary conspiracies everywhere; the Nazis, Jewish ones. But those conspiracies were ultimately there to buttress an ideology, whether class warfare for Communists or race for Nazis. With today’s regimes, which struggle to formulate a single ideology – indeed, which can’t if they want to maintain power by sending different messages to different people – the idea that one lives in a world full of conspiracies becomes the world view itself. Conspiracy does not support the ideology; it replaces it. In Russia this is captured in the catchphrase of the country’s most important current affairs presenter: ‘A coincidence? I don’t think so!’ says Dmitry Kiselev as he twirls between tall tales that dip into history, literature, oil prices and colour revolutions, which all return to the theme of how the world has it in for Russia.
And as a world view it grants those who subscribe to it certain pleasures: if all the world is a conspiracy, then your own failures are no longer all your fault. The fact that you achieved less than you hoped for, that your life is a mess – it’s all the fault of the conspiracy.
More importantly, conspiracy is a way to maintain control. In a world where even the most authoritarian regimes struggle to impose censorship, one has to surround audiences with so much cynicism about anybody’s motives, persuade them that behind every seemingly benign motivation is a nefarious, if impossible-to-prove, plot, that they lose faith in the possibility of an alternative, a tactic a renowned Russian media analyst called Vasily Gatov calls ‘white jamming’.
And the end effect of this endless pile-up of conspiracies is that you, the little guy, can never change anything. For if you are living in a world where shadowy forces control everything, then what possible chance do you have of turning it around? In this murk it becomes best to rely on a strong hand to guide you.
‘Trump is our last chance to save America,’ is the message of his media hounds. Only Putin can ‘raise Russia from its knees’. ‘The problem we are facing today is less oppression, more lack of identity, apathy, division, no trust,’ sighs Srdja. ‘There are more tools to change things than before, but there’s less will to do so.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality. Book, published year 2019
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Elect a clown, expect a circus.
This has been going on long before Trump and is a symptom of wider issues in the economy. Vegas resorts are charging an arm and a leg while nickle and dimeing tourists every step of the way. I saw a breakdown from Bright Sun Films where a weekend trip to the Paris Resort and Casino (not including flights) cost more than a weeklong trip to the actual Paris, flights included. The prices have soared to cater to the wealthy, while the quality has gone down. But I don’t get why someone who can afford a $50,000 Vegas trip would go ther instead of a luxury gambling location like Monaco or Macao.
I saw a breakdown from Bright Sun Films where a weekend trip to the Paris Resort and Casino (not including flights) cost more than a weeklong trip to the actual Paris, flights included.
This is year 2026, USA people want simulations, not reality. That’s why we have fantasy mythology storyteller Donald Trump as leader that entertains people into LOL LOL LMAO constantly. Trump comes from casino entertainment side, not concerned about profits nearly as much as capturing hearts and minds. (The cage fight at White House a couple months ago loss money, https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/ufc-white-house-event-lost-220452457.html but it sure created lots of hearts and minds to LOL LOL LOL at Trump the entertainer. Hate-watching cult fandoms.).
cost more than a weeklong trip to the actual Paris
Since USA is now all MAGA values, many people go into shock to visit the actual Paris, France. Reality is just not as entertaining as the anti-reality USA culture year 2026.
- “Paris syndrome (in Japanese: パリ症候群) is a sense of extreme disappointment exhibited by many individuals when visiting Paris, who feel that the city does not live up to their expectations. The condition is commonly viewed as a severe form of culture shock.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome
The Reddit simulation of anti-Trump and the Twitter pro-Trump worship is so much more thrilling to modern smartphone users. Any time day or night Truth Social stimulates the simulations into commenting activity. The biggest bamboozle in all human history, a total abandonment of real every hour of every day. Such a complex sophisticated mess!
- "Their behaviour is all simulatable. Another similar… and this going to sound cynical, but I don’t want it to. I mean, ah, Baudrillard has visited our country and when he went to Disneyland in Epcot Centre and these various parks, he said “Well this is much better than Europe. The food’s better than Europe. It’s a short walk between France and Germany-land” … “Ah, you know, you don’t have to… deal with all those nasty waiters, everyone is so polite”. The simulation has outrun the so-called reality. That concept in Baudrillard he calls the “hyperreal”. Hyperreality is more real than real. This is… it actually sounds… if some of this sounds like advertising slogans: good. Because in Baudrillard the heritage of philosophy and social theory has passed over into advertising and television. So if it sounds superficial: good, because the theory, the world that he looks at has become superficial and banal. If it sounds hokey like a salesman’s pitch: good. The world he describes is the world of Jurassic Park, not of Dante. " https://rickroderick.org/308-baudrillard-fatal-strategies-1993/
SEE ALSO: The last thing people want to face in USA is sober reality of Dr. Bandy X Lee’s 27 leaders since year 2017. The show must go on! Nobody wants to face up to Donald Trump mental disorders with smart leaders. Everyone is drunk on memes and drunk on Trump’s power tripping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandy_X._Lee Technology fantasy on home media devices is Trumpism.
So many elect clowns, so many We The People are attracted to clowns. Constantly amused population who desires fantasy fiction storytelling leaders. Endless jokes and memes, LOLcow milking society.
“For all his perspicacity, George Orwell would have been stymied by this situation; there is nothing “Orwellian” about it. The President does not have the press under his thumb. The New York Times and The Washington Post are not Pravda; the Associated Press is not Tass. And there is no Newspeak here. Lies have not been defined as truth nor truth as lies. All that has happened is that the public has adjusted to incoherence and been amused into indifference. Which is why Aldous Huxley would not in the least be surprised by the story. Indeed, he prophesied its coming. He believed that it is far more likely that the Western democracies will dance and dream themselves into oblivion than march into it, single file and manacled. Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions. Although Huxley did not specify that television would be our main line to the drug, he would have no difficulty accepting Robert MacNeil’s observation that “Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.” Big Brother turns out to be Howdy Doody.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, year 1985, page 111
- “Howdy Doody is an American children’s television program (with circus and Western frontier themes) that was created and produced by Victor F. Campbell and E. Roger Muir. It was broadcast on the NBC television network in the United States from December 27, 1947, until September 24, 1960.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdy_Doody
