If more of you cowards can run away that would be great. Make room for those that will fight, but please dont come back when we the people rip it all down.
Idk, that’s certainly an optimistic view of a very bad thing happening.
It isn’t going to be just MAGA suffering, and if everyone with a brain leaves — there’s no telling what kind of system will fill the void. I think it’s unrealistic to assume these people will course correct on their own simply because bad things have happened to them.
Yes. I understand the desire for more bodies, but the world isn’t black and white, and not everyone is able to fight.
To elaborate on my own situation, my demographics make me and my community VERY vulnerable to this administration. While the desire to help each other is there, resources are slim and everyone is struggling to sort out their own survival. A lot of the community is also disabled and reliant on others.
Now that I’m out of that, I actually have the capacity to offer support. I’m still very connected to everyone I know and love back home, but now I have the backing of a new community that is very understanding of the situation and able to offer resources. I personally can offer travel advice, a place to crash temporarily, and a safe landing to anyone who decides to follow suit. We also have established safe houses along the way. Since we made the decision to leave, my partner and I have received nothing but love and support from both communities.
Not everyone is a Fighter or a Paladin. Some are better at offering support from a distance.
What I mean is that, with any individual — you start with what you can control. Whatever that sphere of influence might be, your immediate surroundings make up a large part of what you’re actually capable of influencing.
You can’t fight a fire from 3000 miles away. I get that we’re not all capable of running into a burning building, but you’re severely overestimating (and underestimating, oddly enough — but in different directions) an individual’s ability to affect real change.
It is, and I’m well aware of just how hard it is to be in my kind of position. I’m leaving very soon for a job overseas.
It took 12 years of college. It took massive debts that I spent a decade earning to pay off. It took a further 15 years of competing in academia to become a desirable candidate for the job. I’m taking a serious pay cut and spending the saving from a decade of work to make the move.
Its a privilege, but having come from a family that valued education, but had little money to help me, I kinda feel like I’ve earned it. Decades of effort on my part went into this.
You can be pissed all you want, but I’ve paid my dues and I’m spending them on a better and safer future for my children away from the US Banana Republic of Dumbfuckistan.
College educated skilled worker. I already left. I’m not looking back. Thanks Trump for making me realize how much the US was holding me back
If more of you cowards can run away that would be great. Make room for those that will fight, but please dont come back when we the people rip it all down.
You don’t need to be in the USA to fight.
The fight was won by Russian troll farms operating in Iran. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html
And you’re implying the people proudly turning their backs on the U.S. are going to do something to help the citizens of the U.S.?
Seems like twisted logic, to me.
TBH if the economy crashes HARD for the next 3.5 years that may help wean some MAGA away from their FOX/OAN/RT propaganda bubble
Idk, that’s certainly an optimistic view of a very bad thing happening.
It isn’t going to be just MAGA suffering, and if everyone with a brain leaves — there’s no telling what kind of system will fill the void. I think it’s unrealistic to assume these people will course correct on their own simply because bad things have happened to them.
Yes. I understand the desire for more bodies, but the world isn’t black and white, and not everyone is able to fight.
To elaborate on my own situation, my demographics make me and my community VERY vulnerable to this administration. While the desire to help each other is there, resources are slim and everyone is struggling to sort out their own survival. A lot of the community is also disabled and reliant on others.
Now that I’m out of that, I actually have the capacity to offer support. I’m still very connected to everyone I know and love back home, but now I have the backing of a new community that is very understanding of the situation and able to offer resources. I personally can offer travel advice, a place to crash temporarily, and a safe landing to anyone who decides to follow suit. We also have established safe houses along the way. Since we made the decision to leave, my partner and I have received nothing but love and support from both communities.
Not everyone is a Fighter or a Paladin. Some are better at offering support from a distance.
What I mean is that, with any individual — you start with what you can control. Whatever that sphere of influence might be, your immediate surroundings make up a large part of what you’re actually capable of influencing.
You can’t fight a fire from 3000 miles away. I get that we’re not all capable of running into a burning building, but you’re severely overestimating (and underestimating, oddly enough — but in different directions) an individual’s ability to affect real change.
More privilege on display from the elite in American society.
And also bragging about it. Gross.
Fucking bizarre take to lob at someone fleeing a country rapidly falling to fascism and ethnic cleansing.
It’s not bizarre to shame someone for bragging about the ability to just up and leave to a country halfway across the world.
Most Americans do not have that kind of privilege. It must be nice.
It is, and I’m well aware of just how hard it is to be in my kind of position. I’m leaving very soon for a job overseas.
It took 12 years of college. It took massive debts that I spent a decade earning to pay off. It took a further 15 years of competing in academia to become a desirable candidate for the job. I’m taking a serious pay cut and spending the saving from a decade of work to make the move.
Its a privilege, but having come from a family that valued education, but had little money to help me, I kinda feel like I’ve earned it. Decades of effort on my part went into this.
You can be pissed all you want, but I’ve paid my dues and I’m spending them on a better and safer future for my children away from the US Banana Republic of Dumbfuckistan.
Lol.