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Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Mr_Fish@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well a lot of the Americans most impacted by this shit can’t afford to move away

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  • veroxii@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can they afford to stay?

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    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do they have a choice but to suffer?

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      • bingrazer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m stuck here for at least another year and a half

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• ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It takes time to plan leaving the country. A lot of people like me are leaving we just haven’t gotten there yet because of how long it takes getting everything lined up

  Of my entire friend and family group I’m the only one who can afford to leave. Moving is not cheap and I think it’s like 1/3 of Americans are paycheck to paycheck

  It’s also more than just financially difficult to move countries. Most places require you to have a valued skill set. Many places deny neurodivergent people. This means a lot of the people who need to leave the most can’t land somewhere even if they could afford to flip their life upside down

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• SiegeRhino@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  every comment section with just the most ignorant opinion about Americans from someone on the sidelines

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• Tomassci@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am more asking about how more Americans are willing to just go along with no civil disobedience whatsoever.

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  • Kalothar@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, we are? I’m tired of this whole we are doing nothing narrative.

    The media isn’t going to show national news in support of this, however:

    There are groups mobilizing, protests at city halls, capitol buildings. I have seen protestors in small cities, and in the large.

    There is steam picking up, the town halls becoming increasingly more chaotic on both sides.

    You even have the growth of socialistra.org And other like associations

    You have entire organizations of legal workers trying everything they can to slow down things through legislation. You have the the anti oligarch movement spearheaded by AOC (democrat) and Bernie (independent). Some guard rails are holding and some are failing.

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    • Tomassci@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I am talking about those that do not do these things, thinking that voting is the most they could do. I actually appreciate that there’s a lot that isn’t gonna let this slide

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  • TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Many will still think he’s one of them.

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• Pandemanium@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How would it help to leave? Lots of cowards have already done so. Have you ever considered that maybe it’s because so many progressives are leaving that now we don’t have the numbers you want to see when we protest? That the people who would have been protesting are already gone?

  I’m fully willing to die fighting fascism in this stupid civil war, but it isn’t a war until we get some governors and coast guard on board. Until that point, anyone who does anything violent is just a ‘lone terrorist’ and will probably be disappeared to El Salvador.

  Leaving is not speaking out. Leaving is not fighting. It is only for your own survival, and it leaves the rest of us with less to fight with and less to fight for.

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• Atropos@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m not going to leave. I’m fighting for the country we should be.

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