On one hand - great news. Fewer workers and potential conscripts for the US empire.
On the other hand - I don’t think anyone wants even a single American more in their own country.
Side note - how on earth are other countries still respecting US driver’s licenses?
I’ll take American doctors and high skill professionals. They’re always welcome here in Canada
Plus the people leaving are going to be heavily heavily biased against Trump I think. Why would a MAGA cult member abandon their great nation? It’s not even finished becoming great again? Are they that tired of winning?
This right here. The smartest people I know are “leftists”. The “right” is filled with majority regressive thinkers and the uber rich brainwashing those idiots into hatred.
A significant percentage of Americans have always been plenty hateful, no brainwashing necessary.
no brainwashing necessary
That’s just brainwashing that was already done.
I voted against the orange mussolini. But, yeah, I’m the problem bcz I’m American.
Personally I couldn’t care less who you voted for.
But, yeah, I’m the problem bcz I’m American.
Well, yes. No offence to anyone, but vast majority of Americans are a problem wherever they go. Not due to any fault of their own, of course. I’m sure I’d be just as much of a problem if I was born and raised in the US.
However, the fact remains.
With this kind of blatant xenophobia and bigotry you’d fit right in with maga.
You’re saying that as if it’s a given, but I don’t follow your logic. I could see if you were making the case for American tourists, but we’re talking about a completely different group of people.
I’ve traveled internationally plenty, used to do it for work, and I never had a problem wherever I went.
Yes, some Americans are obnoxious, as are some people in every country. You’ve yet to make an actual loint.
yes… this guy makes that point as a Russia, he is the problem and is why he left
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Expatsi sounds like a company that would use you as a drug mule.
is it irony that the regime bending over backward for privileged people is most of all driving out privileged people
not really, this guy couldn’t survive in the US
Not quite - the regime is bending over backwards for people it feels it can control. They don’t care about the privileged people leaving, just that there are enough bodies left to fight wars & work.
When do you think we’ll see Americans jumping over a wall to get into Canada?
Fuck now ai have to vote for the anti-immigration party… /s
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Hey, you’re disgusting. Fix yourself.
The losers that leave aren’t welcome back. I don’t give a fuck about your degree or job.
Yeah, just like North Korean detectors aren’t welcome back in North Korea. Bummer.
That’s hilarious. Keep it up!
Lone wolves rarely solve anything.
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such a cwanky wittle baby!
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is that supposed to be an insult? is that the best your shitty little LLM can cook up on your rinkydink pissant rig? what is that, a raspberry pi zero?
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someone is clearly up way past their bed time.
does your mommy or daddy know you’re online little guy?
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Are you some kind of pedo
burn in hell
damn, you flamed me good! I’ll never recover from that!
It’s the people you can least afford to lose and hardest to replace who tend to go first.
I left. No regrets, just a lot of grief. As a trans immigrant, the US does not and has never represented me.
Fun fact, I still have to pay US taxes but I can’t renew my US passport. What’s that about taxation without representation?
Why can’t you renew your passport? As a fellow expat I do it whenever it expires at the local embassy.
I’m trans.
They won’t let you renew your passport because your trans?
They’ve been holding them up in bureaucratic limbo, and at best you get a passport that misrepresents and endangers you anywhere you go. They refuse to process passports if they don’t believe your marker matches your ASAB, but then also also say they aren’t processing gender marker changes.
Motherfuckers.
If you have dual citizenship why not renounce your US citizenship and stop paying US taxes? If you don’t live in the US and you can’t get a passport, there’s not much advantage to having citizenship.
Oh I’ve considered it, and they just made it cheaper!
What happens if you just don’t pay?
Nothing, if you never go back to the US.
I have no idea what happens if you don’t but, next administration might be competent. I wouldn’t wanna find out under people who actually know what they’re doing.
While I certainly understand someone who feels threatened and doesn’t want to become another cautionary tale about misjudging fascists capacity for murder, I’m concerned that the exodus of people who oppose the regime just further solidifies their hold.
It also increases the risk for those left behind who can’t leave.
If you’re leaving because you expect to die if you stay, then godspeed to you. If you’re leaving because you’d rather go someplace where you can pretend it doesn’t affect you, then fuck you.
I left pre-Trump, for personal reasons. I’ll never go back.
And I think it’s unwise to judge those who leave rather than staying and fighting. My ex’s family came to the US from Poland in the 1930s. The family that remained in Poland were sent to the camps and murdered. People make their own choices, and it’s sanctimonious to lecture those who choose differently than you did. And staying and actually fighting is not the same as being a keyboard warrior, either. I’m not saying you are, but many others are.
We’ve got our own fasc problem here, too. I’m doing what I can. Lemmy’s not the place to go into more detail than that.
Of course you would, you left.
I love how you think it’s sanctimonious that others judge it. They’re leaving because of a bad vote result; something they had the choice to participate in and fix.
That’s it. Vote results. Personal reasons.
Not a world war, like the Poles and Jews suffered. Not starvation and brutality. A fuckin vote result.
That’s it. Vote results.
Tell that to people being tortured in El Salvador, or beaten and murdered by ICE, or the kids dying because they weren’t vaccinated, or trans people deprived of health care. Or go tell it to the people outside the US who have been slaughtered because of “vote results.”
Not starvation and brutality.
Childhood poverty has skyrocketed, and some of that is at starvation level. It’ll get worse. Brutality? See above.
Someone’s decision to leave is theirs and theirs alone. I fully understand why people who have the means decide to stay, I also know firsthand how difficult it is to leave. Leaving is not an easy choice by any metric, and I’m not going to allow the US to send me to a concentration camp in Ghana so that fucks like you can remain comfortable.
The USA made it very clear that they want to kill me. I went to my us rep with a half dozen other trans people and said “we believe the government has genocidal intent towards us”.
He said “yeah I don’t disagree with you”
“Can you make a public statement in support of your trans constituents?”
“No because then someone in Ohio might not vote Democratic”
This was in one of the safest blue districts in the entire country.
I have kids I need to keep alive and to stay alive for.
Ignore this guy. Run if you have the means. The US will self immolate and anyone who can escape should
If you want to stay to defend your home with direct action Godspeed
Yeah nah they’re right.
Stay and fight for it if you can.
Are you going to fight for your new country if your old countrymen come for it? The answers I’ve received so far on this question are pretty bad.
Are you going to fight for your new country if your old countrymen come for it?
Yep. It’ll have to be in a support capacity, though, since I’m old.
I’ve considered leaving, but I’d need a good work from home job to do it
If there’s ever a way to take a history of everyone that gets grifted by this it will be fascinating and horrifying
I Left a long time ago (for the second time) and will never go back. My kids got a far better education, my income prospects greatly improved, and life here is just …easier. Mind you I left from NYC which is everything except easy. Still love NYC but will not go back to visit under these circumstances.
My wife and I fought actively for change on the local level. It changed nothing.
Where did you go?
NL. I’ve stated it here and other places before and my Bsky profile is mostly shots of my city. I am trivially easy to dox.
But, I have friends, so don’t do that please.
