He needs a t-shirt that says “If you see me running, try to keep up!”
I work with big tanks of a pressurized gas that occasionally releases pressure for a few seconds, very loudly. Civilians are often startled, and ask if its going to blow up, and I always say:
“Do you see me running?”
“No.”
“Then don’t worry about it. But if you see me running, then you should definitely run, too.”
This is going to keep happening. The brain drain is real.
There are two sides to the brain drain. First are the researchers into things the government doesn’t like, who will leave if they have the means to.
But the second is that with all of our hostility to foreign nationals right now, even the ones who come from countries the government likes will think twice about applying for positions here.
The net result is that the brightest minds will go elsewhere.
Which is fine with them, they know that smart people will call them out on their bullshit. That’s why one of the first thing an authoriatarian government does is go after the intellectuals. That’s why they’re disappearing avtivist college students.
The good news for our side is that they are giving their opposition the gift of competence. The most experienced, competent leaders are being replaced with stupid, ignorant, totally inexperienced loyalists. Left behind are millions of angry Federal employees, who hate what MAGA is doing to all their years of hard work, and who despise their new bosses. They are ripe for recruiting as moles, leakers, saboteurs, assassins, etc. And those experienced leaders will be the ones to lead us through the inevitable revolt, and form the basis of the new Democractic government.
Ultimately, MAGA will be brought down by their own virtuosic incompetence.
Stanley recently wrote for the Guardian about a new Department of Education directive that said teaching about systemic racism and other topics could be grounds for a civil rights violation, according to the Trump administration’s legal interpretations. Stanley said this order sets the country “on a path to educational authoritarianism”.
The fascists are still robbing their opponents of the language of dissent by turning its meaning on its head. It is now a “civil rights violation” to claim that there is racism, homophobia, transphobia or sexism in the USA. Civil rights now means protecting the supremacy of straight white men.
Man I knew this election was going to turn into Americans coming to Canada en mass and us having to deal with more fucking Americans.
Yeah, the people coming to Canada aren’t the ones you have to worry about.
the only way we’re getting in is if we agree to be construction workers, given the housing problems up there
Nah, I don’t want any of them here honestly. The democrats have done some heinous shit too and seeing how hard a lot of the supposed “good” Americans defend them makes me not want any of them here. Not to mention we already have a housing crisis without that bullshit.
I can understand the tensions from the housing crisis, and I can also sympathise with not having a lot of personal sympathy for the Americans moving right now, who most likely won’t be refugees as such, but just people with the financial privilege and ability to choose where to emigrate.
But long-term, depending on how shitty the shit-show will get, there might be tent cities for persecuted Americans in the future, both for you and for us here in the EU (and, ironically, in Mexico, of course). You can say that you don’t like it, and you have every right to - but at least in my eyes, it’s an international duty to human rights when that point comes, and I, personally, won’t give a shit what people feel, then. The international community will have to take them in unless we want to follow the international trend of fascism and say “empathy is the problem” like Elon. (Even though I actually don’t think this would be about empathy, it’d be about upholding what remains of international standards, duties, laws and human rights, eventually with force if necessary)
I’m an American who fucking loathes the democrats and hates the nazis here. I just want to move there to be there to be with my fiancée
I didn’t say anything about supposedly “good” Americans. My point was that the people staying here either can’t leave, or are trying to fight it, or they MAGA. It’s the MAGA people you should be worried about. They are the ones cheering the fascism on, and will start shooting first.
People downvoting you are failing to recognize that while we are a colony of the English throne and have germanic overlords on our money, the current colonization process by the USA is through capitalism, entertainment, and geopolitics.
Much of canadian resentment comes from the wearing away of our differences by sheer bulk of exposure exacerbated by the typical lack of awareness by colonizers of their own personal role in this damaging process and its effects, interpersonally.
Colonizers often deny their association with the process.
Oh maybe some visitors or US migrants understand intellectually. But culture is not very conscious behaviour, and the heroic individualism and assumptions of cultural supremacy that they bring will rankle most Canadians at some point.
Also take off yer fukan shoes in my house, eh!
I know whenever I meet new people from a different country, the first thing we talk about is how they feel about the different political parties in their country, and they always feel super strongly positively about their government. If there’s one thing Americans traveling abroad just won’t shut up about, it is their good feelings about the American Democratic Party.
Look man I know you that it pisses you off. I understand. But look at this way. The ones that are coming are the one you want. Or at least I hope you want. If I could leave and keep my retirement I would.
It’s not unreasonable to prefer people from a country that isn’t trying to colonize you. Even ‘the good ones’ don’t get that, which illustrates the point.
You can’t post or say anything without fear of being targeted by the Trump administration. The legal student protester got abducted, and Trump stops funding universities because of protesting students. The cabinet is full of dishonorable fascists.
Once they’ve finished processing all the foreigners, they’ll start coming for Americans they don’t like.
I’ve been talking about how I joined Lemmy after having my 12 year, nearly million karma account permabanned on Reddit following the inauguration. When they finally get around to perusing my comment history, and track down my email info, I’m a goner.
