Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US?

• Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine are desperate for people to move there… And the Canadian border is right there just in case

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Canadian Immigration is pretty full up at the moment.

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• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  keep in mind this opinion also promises that it can’t be fixed, as the more blue voters that leave the red leaning states the more power those red leaning states have. Moving to a blue leaning state only removes the blue votes from the red leaning state in favor of increasing the power of an already blue state.

  Of course if he somehow manages to find a way to do away with the election process this would be true, but currently the best bet overall is going to be stay in your state, honestly if you can lower solid blue districts in favor of saturating red districts.

  Our system does not operate under popular vote. It runs off the electoral college, its the main reason red states want to gerrymander the district lines to make all black areas be their own district, its less damage if every opponent is in the same district as it allows only one district to be in opposition instead of multiple.

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  • NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s all well and good, but are you really suggesting that trans people who are fearing for their lives should stay put to help the electoral college issues four years from now?

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    • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      that’s a sticky question, there’s no perfect answer sadly.

      the solution of moving to a blue state is a good short term fix. However it won’t survive a long-term exposure. Eventually the federal level laws will outlaw the state level laws regarding it and their protections in the blue state won’t help them anymore. When that happens the only outcome is all red laws.

      In a perfect world, due to everyone dispersing into the red districts, it would saturate the polls in those districts, requiring either district remaps via gerrymandering to win. Unless there truly is more red voters then blue, in which case there is no solution to this problem while remaining in the US, the only valid option is either a second civil war, or moving to another country and hoping that it doesn’t spread. Neither options are ideal.

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      • lemonmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        that’s a sticky question,

        No, the banshee-wailing fuck it isn’t!

        If someone truly believes they are in fucking danger, they need to remove themselves from the danger first and foremost, before any consideration of “but what about next election?”

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      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Are you for real trying to ivory tower armchair general a person who now fears for their life due to the overt threats of the candidate who just won the fucking presidency? Hold on- let me get you a ladder so you can try to climb down out of your own asshole.

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      • militaryintelligence@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        More than half of Americans are OK with fascism. No fixing this.

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• Tacos_y_margaritas@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  New Mexico is quite nice and still affordable.

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