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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

Send me up to the ISS. I'll keep the dudes stranded up there company until this whole thing blows over. And if WW3 happens, I'll be safe.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Don't come to Canada. We don't have enough housing for the people already here. Most of you will die of exposure during your first winter here.

Go to Mexico instead. I'm sure they'll take you.

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

Well with Trump in power, factoring in the accelerated climate change ppl may be ok in winter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

There is that.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

To be fair, other countries want US citizens even less than the US wants* immigrants.

Do people actually think that the US is alone in anti-immigration sentiment? Do they think it’s different because they’re American?

The US is the one with a giant monument to immigration, at whose feet is a plaque that reads:

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

And if they, of all people, are now against that, what makes Americans think anyone else will want them? It’s delusional.

Many countries shut down immigration to Americans in 2016, after the first round of trump’s policies, and they haven’t opened back up yet, partly because there was a solid chance of this happening again.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

???

It's easy as piss to emigrate from America as long as you:

Are white, middle class, not provably disabled, not gay, with no criminal history, with at least one million in assets, as long as you don't have a history of activism, already are hired by a local company, and have a STEM degree.

See?

Easy.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I checked out Canadian requirements. The first stage of screening asks your name, email and year of birth - which only goes back to 1970. So apparently I'm too old.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago

That number specifically indicates that they're probably using a positive integer amount of seconds since the epoch (jan 1st, 1970). Rookie mistake.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Hey, that’s not entirely fair. Russia is more than happy to accept Americans, so long as they’re willing to be cannon fodder for a while. I’m pretty sure they’re not even putting an age limit on it. If you survive, you may even get a small flat afterwards. And if you don’t, they may give your parents money for a Lada (providing they were Russian citizens already).

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 22 hours ago

IMO any American who wants to emigrate to Russia is welcome to become topsoil in Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

The US wants immigrants, MAGA doesn't want immigrants. And I can fully understand anybody not wanting MAGAs. I wish they would evaporate off the face of the Earth.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Don't worry. He'll be coming for Canada. You already have MAGA lovers up there. Who's going to stop him? The Canadian military?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

It already well on it's way depending on your province. People have moved out of Quebec because of the intolerance going on there. Hell, I know a streamer who moved because someone threw a fucking brick through their window at his wife who moved there from the USA. Not because she's black or colored either, because she's white as a piece of paper.

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Canada’s gonna swing the same way next year so you’re not really escaping from anything anyways

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

Do you think that this is an import from the US kind of thing, or more of a global trend?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Definitely seems like a global trend.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Already swung super anti-immigration as of earlier this year, so the move to Canada plan isn't going to be as easy either

[–] [email protected] 1 points 52 minutes ago

Canada will need to build a giant moat of syrup.

It will drown americans attempting to cross after their diabetic coma hits and they submerge in a sugary tomb.

Like Titanic meets Wall-E.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (17 children)

You can outlive this. There's a good chance he can't. Be strong, and look out for those more vulnerable than yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 50 minutes ago

Because J.D. Vance is going yo improve things?

Good joke.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

My concern is that the train is still running at full speed even if the driver has died of a heart attack.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Oh boy, President JD 'couch enthusiast' Vance!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

That's just it, I'm a white male, I know I'll be comparatively fine. It's not really me I'm worried about.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

Thank you for this. It’s more helpful than you know.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago (7 children)

It's not much better over here anyways, anti trans laws and oil industry dick sucking is ramping up more than ever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

UK here, get off our lawn. Transphobia is our chief export.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Well, then kick him out. Or maybe guillotine him out, so that he doesn't return.

Like, if people were actually that irked that he won, they'd be doing something. But no, from what I hear El Trumpo actually won the popular vote: the US wants to be fascist. Maybe Canada too. (No, not as in the US wants to be Canada... although that'd be an improvement...)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So far, it's only been his supporters trying to kill him. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

At least we'll always have the ironic laugh at how the US, a country with guns for everyone, didn't even get a tin medal in shooting the Olympics, and how the US, a country with the 2nd Amendment, can't even kill a tyrant right.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I love the assumption that other countries would just take American emigrants.

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

It's a shit ton harder than people realize.... well at least to go anywhere in the industrialized world. Unless you are independently wealthy or have an extremely high demand job.

Billy Bob who's career is working at McDonalds isn't going to get approved.

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