• lennybird@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Easier said than done I know but if Trump wins my wife and I would strongly consider emigrating to another country. There’s only so much insanity one can take before needlessly going down with the ship. And if the calculus is that that my kids will have better prospects elsewhere, then so be it.

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        8 months ago

        Seconding this. Moving to another country without skilled work history and/or higher education in a niche field that would be of use to the destination country is extremely hard to do. You, basically, have to beat out a skilled worker that already lives there. The other option is to be wealthy and buy your way in.

        A lot of people have this misconception that moving elsewhere is easy. Turns out, when assholes yell at you about leaving the country when you don’t like something, they’re not being genuine and more doors are closed to you than open.

        And, if you’re asking yourself how all the other immigrants are doing it, I can guess that they’re possibly being exploited with by pay that won’t be a living wage and/or have a desperate situation back home.

        Interestingly, I’ve seen a few people warn that, when poop finally hits the fan because of ww3, you don’t necessarily want to be the othered, new family on the block.

        Take my words with a grain of salt, but reality might be much different than people think when it comes to jumping ship.

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      8 months ago

      Fascism is on the rise globally. If enough decent people leave the US, we will fall into a fascist regime, and it will be the beginning of World War Three, with the US leading the equivalent of the Axis powers. No place in the world will be safe for you or your children. That’s the hard, honest truth.

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        8 months ago

        Agreed. We need to stay, and we need to fight to change the system from the inside. We can still prevent disaster at this stage.

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      8 months ago

      The problem is that without good people to stop them, evil people taking charge of the USA would radically change the entire world.

      It’s not easy, but most of us have to stay. Maybe all of us…