• fireweed@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The article: “a bunch of us are worried about the potential rise of fascism in the United States, so we’re moving to Italy

    Tell me that you are oblivious to international politics without literally telling me that you are oblivious to international politics.

    More to the point, if Americans were the type to “flee in droves,” left-wingers would have left states like Texas and Florida en-masse for bluer pastures. Moving within the United States is a million times easier than moving overseas, and if they’re not doing the former in the face of fascism/degradation of human rights in red states, why on earth would they engage in the much more difficult latter? Definitely sounds like a case of taking anecdote and non-committal musings online too seriously.

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      Many people are doing that. And republicans are migrating in the opposite direction, too.

      The problem is most people can’t just up and leave.its expensive, we have to line up jobs, housing, etc; and many people don’t want to leave family and friends.

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        I would love to leave but america falling to fascism is just the beginning. I’ve said it before. Give my life purpose. I dare you.

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      I dunno, something feels different this time. One of my co workers just asked for advice on what country to move to if Trump is re elected.

      The reason I think it’s different this time is because this is the same co worker that used to make fun of me for thinking that Trump’s second term will usher in America’s first dictatorship. It ain’t funny now.

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        Stay in the US. Honestly. The threat isn’t the rising tide of hateful rhetoric from right-wing extremists. The threat is that a bunch of christo-fascist doomsday worshippers get sole access to 50% of the nuclear weapons on the planet.

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      Depends on how they’re moving to Italy. They have generous repatriation laws if you are descended from an Italian who emigrated. So by following that repatriation process to reclaim Italian citizenship opens up the whole EU.

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      My friend and I moved to Germany last year. We met some Americans from st. Louis who moved the year before.

      It’s anecdotal but not unreasonable to imagine some amount of brain drain is happening because of the instability in the US driven by late stage capitalism.

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        At one point my German husband was looking into becoming a US citizen, but just never got around to it. I stopped encouraging it years ago, because Germany has weird laws about dual citizenship and he would likely have to give his up to become a US citizen. As a result, we have a European exit plan. While I’d really like the US to get it’s shit together, knowing we have options is nice.

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          You no longer have to give up citizenship to be a German citizen, and the US doesn’t require that either. A new law passed this year and comes into effect sometime around April I believe (still new to the exact legislation process in this country).

          But yes, I would not encourage anyone to move to the US at this time. They are the largest proponent of late stage capitalism and those policies bring instability to the worker classes which begets authoritarianism. That’s rarely a good thing for anyone.

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            Ohhh that’s good to know! We already live in the US though. I’ll have to look at the new legislation. Thanks for the info!

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 months ago

        forget brain drain because of leaving the US, it’s brain drain from the lack of local industry. Nobody here knows how to do anything in regards to manufacturing lol.

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      I’m in Texas. I know less than a dozen Republicans and maybe 3 of them are Trumpsters. I voted in the Republican primary and, while researching candidates and propositions, i was shocked at how horrible they all are!!! I was trying to choose the least crazy candidates and they’re weren’t any!

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        Yeah we didn’t bother voting in the R primary for the same reason, no least worst candidate. We need to turn more states blue badly.

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      8 months ago

      Moving to a different state within the US would do fuck-all to mitigate the kind of threats we’re worried about.

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      the republicans i know think that people are fleeing blue states to red states because of politics. the reality is that nobody is going anywhere.

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          Even traveling. I forget the stat I heard years ago but iirc it was a majority of people hadn’t even travelled outside of that. Which I get to some extent since most people live in cities, but having been raised in the middle of nowhere misery it’s necessary to travel more than 20 miles just to get to a damn grocery store. Once I had a car myself I was road tripping constantly

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        Ehh. People are moving to places that are cheaper. Look at Texas. Low taxes and cheap real estate compared to any blue state big city.

        Climate comparable to Cali or CO. So if u sold a Cali house Texas is your best bet to replicate that u had or better for less money.

        Those cheap states are cheaper cuz they’re corrupt shitholes.

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          Uh, no.

          No state income tax, but those morons tax you for home ownership far more than some states. Electricity is more exp, even housing isn’t as cheap as it was 5 years ago. I paid more in property taxes in Texas than I pay here for property and state income on a house worth 3x what I had in Texass.

          And where the hell in Texass are you saying has comparable weather with Colorado? Maybe south Colorado, or close to Kansas. But as a whole, texass weather has no match to anything as nice as Colorado weather.

          Now the, that place is run by a corrupt bunch of fucktards.

    • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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      As someone who spent 20 years living in foreign countries, there is a political distance when you’re somewhere else. US politics are happening on a different part of the globe, and it takes a long time to really understand local politics. I’m leaving soon, but that’s happening whatever the outcome of the election as it was already planned.