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[–] LordWiggle 44 points 2 days ago (9 children)

How long until Americans realize, and start to flee to Canada and Mexico. I'd advice those countries to prepare for millions of US refugees. Don't forget to include a bible and a gun in every care package to make them feel at home. Trump takes care of the immigration problem by making the US the worst place to be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Fleeing to canada could mean in the future to flee to a 51st usa state, hopefully this will never happen…

[–] LordWiggle 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

It would be the biggest state. I doubt Canada has a republican majority, so for Republicans this would mean a nightmare. Never elected again. Not that elections will be an issue when Trump manages to sit until death, like his buddy Putin, and Xi.

[–] Maggoty 1 points 11 hours ago

Oh that's just the rhetoric. It'll never be a State. That would give it protection from the corporations. It'll be a territory with federal laws forcing them to allow corporations to mine and log anything the corporations desire.

[–] btaf45 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Narcisstic Buffoon Trump says he going to take over Canada so that he gets your attention for that one particular day.

Narcisstic Buffoon Trump says he going to take over Greenland so that he gets your attention for that one particular day.

Narcisstic Buffoon Trump says he going to take over Gaza so that he gets your attention for that one particular day.

Unless and until you hear news about actual US troops landing in Canada, Greenland, or Gaza, don't give Traitorapist Trump any attention at all for that crap. If he actually did any of that, he would have to pay a significant price. He is not saying anything important, so you are safe to go about your life.

[–] LordWiggle 2 points 12 hours ago

I don't agree. I agree with him trying to get your attention, but I think it's because he doesn't want your attention at the stuff he's actually doing. Plastic straws? Rly? Better double check whatever else he's doing. He's constantly distracting everyone with some weird bs to hide his malpractice. No one cares about some simple executive orders when he's threatening to invade Canada, everyone will write about some stupid placric straws instead of some boring stuff which actually is harmful AF.

[–] AA5B 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As one of the blue states, we’re not getting directly hit yet. Our leaders are strong and I’m a confident we can hold out, like a beacon of hope, for the next four years. We can rebuild. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better, stronger, faster.

In theory we could even be better off, not paying in all that money that less developed states depend on, k though taxes never go down. I’m sure just like last time, they’ll add a twist to the tax cuts for the wealthy to screw over high cost of living states.

[–] leadore 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Don’t forget to include a bible and a gun in every care package to make them feel at home.

You're getting mixed up. The ones fleeing would not be the ones with the bibles and guns--those are who they would be fleeing from.

[–] LordWiggle 0 points 18 hours ago

The loonies will flee too when they find out what they voted for.

[–] Anti_Face_Weapon 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] dingdongmetacarples 11 points 1 day ago

They're the ones who suck. Make them leave.

[–] FlyingSquid 35 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Way ahead of you. We left for the UK on inauguration day. Now I just need to get a job.

[–] LordWiggle 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

From all the European countries, you didn't pick a good one mate xD the UK is a mess

[–] FlyingSquid 34 points 2 days ago (17 children)

I got to pick one where I can legally live, and one that isn't going to force my daughter into a conversion therapy camp for being gay, which is what I am concerned with at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm not super full of national pride, but its not exactly a hell hole and on the plus side we've recently elected a party on the left while a good chunk of the other major European powers are shifting to the right. Need to get on top of this Reform nonsense, but I'm not seeing anyone rounding up LGBTQ folk.

[–] FlyingSquid 16 points 2 days ago

Agreed. And every kid my daughter has met and talked to has been very much accepting. Unlike a lot of American kids.

[–] ajoebyanyothername 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

party on the left

Very generous description of Starmer's Labour!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

There's some nationalisation going on, which is kinda left. Just isn't Corbyn's Labour, that's all.

[–] OrganicMustard 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They haven't banned conversion therapy either

[–] FlyingSquid 10 points 2 days ago

Okay, where do you suggest I should have gone when I'm only a citizen of the US and the UK?

Let's hear your plan.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nice to have you over here. May i ask what sort of job are you looking for?

[–] FlyingSquid 8 points 2 days ago

Thank you. I have decades of experience in audio video production and post production with a very impressive CV which hasn't helped much yet, sadly.

[–] CharlesDarwin 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For me, six weeks to get a passport because I have citizenship rights. For my daughter (and wife still in the U.S.), it involves me finding a job that pays more than £28,000 a year.

[–] CharlesDarwin 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What if you were working remotely? Would that have counted?

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think so. As far as I understand, I just have to be in the country and prove I make at least that much a year or have that much in savings. But fully remote jobs are even harder to get.

[–] MothmanDelorian 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Yeah I have a buddy doing remote tv editing gigs who is not in NY or CA. It has been very difficult since the easy money dried up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm currently in the process of relocating to Canada via my job, know many others who are as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If only it weren't so difficult and expensive to get in.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Have you considered baing an illegal imigrant?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That's half our plans right?

Resist and throw monkey wrenches as long as possible then gtfo and "overstay" your visa at the last moment. Obviously this is more difficult for some of us and some should plan an exit sooner, everyone needs to focus on their own threat model and plan accordingly.

Be an accomplice, not an ally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Hmm, perhaps not with the necessary enthusiasm...🤔

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some people are fleeing. The RCMP has been detaining a lot of people who have fled or are helping to move people out of the US.

[–] LordWiggle 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] LordWiggle 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thanks. But are these people fleeing into Canada due to the Trump regime, or are they just smugglers / criminals? It says nothing about the motive. There are also people entering Canada to buy their meds there, smuggling them back to the US.

PS, in my head I'm reading it like a canadian from south park, adding "eh", "buddy", "friend", "pall" at the end of every sentence. Childish, I know, but oh so funny hehe.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago

Imagine fleeing ro a county whose people have beed called drug dealer criminal rapists by the president they elected twice.