Fuck now ai have to vote for the anti-immigration party… /s
Im too depressed to leave. Like just the fact a human being would prefer only high skill humans just is the most human comment ever in this thread.
Not “itd be cool to get the nicest people”. But just saying we prefer skills and screw the others. I really dont have faith in humanity anymore.
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 say they aren’t processing gender marker changes.
At least, I’ve heard/seen enough reports that I’m not going to try it. Also, with the effort it took to change that info in the first place, I’d rather have a correct but expired passport than a wrong one
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.
Expatsi sounds like a company that would use you as a drug mule.
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.
is it irony that the regime bending over backward for privileged people is most of all driving out privileged people
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.
not really, this guy couldn’t survive in the US
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
When do you think we’ll see Americans jumping over a wall to get into Canada?
No ragrets
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.
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.
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 point.
yes… this guy makes that point as a Russia, he is the problem and is why he left
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Lone wolves rarely solve anything.
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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!
Hey, you’re disgusting. Fix yourself.
such a cwanky wittle baby!
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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!
Stay and fix your shit you fuckers
This is exactly the sentiment of Republicans here when migrants come to the US to seek a better life.
Congrats on not being better than them, but just being somewhere else.
migrants come to the US to seek a better life.
Really depends on what part of the US they settle into. Some places are highly welcoming of immigrants, but some others are pretty much sundown towns.
They’re seeking a better life because they have no choice.
Americans are seeking escape from a vote result that some didn’t even participate in.
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You know… If you consistently espouse and vehemently defend the same talking points that I’ve been hearing from Republicans for the last my-whole-life, I think it is fair to call that you a Republican. You might self-identify as something different, the same way North Korea identifies as a democracy, but that just changes the label, not the ideology.
https://www.newsweek.com/maketheir-countries-great-again-trump-tells-migrants-1137652
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Stop making more comments on the same post.
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Don’t tell us what to do, hypocrite. Just because my grandparents got swept off their feet by American propaganda doesn’t mean I owe my life to an empire based on slavery.
Okay. It ends up looking pathetic and tryhardy. Just edit the comment you already made.
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lol
Also it’s just kind of annoying and shitty.
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Did you try reading the comment that I initially replied to? I don’t think the context can be any more clear. Let me know if you need me to put it all in one post for you with detailed explanations, but I really don’t think that is necessary.
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I will if you restore the comment you deleted first. Let’s have clear and honest communication, or none at all.
lol. Of course you need it spelled out for you.
Be good if they put as much effort into that and voting as they do whining about it and downvoting us ay
well that sounds familiar…
Yes please. No more American’s in my country complaing to me, a local, about immigrants. I can’t fucking do it anymore.
No more American’s in my country
complaing to me, a local,
about immigrants. I can’t fucking do it anymore.
if you’re tired of hearing it, have you thought about shutting the fuck up?
Only an American would tell someone from another country talking about Americans complaining in their country to shut the fuck up.
If you’re not an American you should know better.
How about they fuck off back to America.
Nope, you just don’t like hearing it, for the pathetic excuses you’re doing it.
No point has gone over my head. You just can’t handle the mirror.
It’s no different for all of us with the spine to call it. It’s a shame you couldn’t show the same commitment at the polling booth that you do with whining and reacting badly to others that are sick of giving your shit a free pass.
Not just here either.
your anger is so adorable, misplaced, but adorable.
I can imagine you’re just like an angry little leprechaun.
ok buddy, go on back to your rainbow before you hurt yourself.
lmao yeah whatever dude
Just stay and fix your shit
Especially the ones who have the privilege of even having the option of leaving
yeah! fuck people who have the means of leaving a bad situation! fuck those Iranians that left before their country was bombed fuck those Jews for fleeing Germany!
/s
to be honest the guy I talked to was homeless.
Leaving does help, doesn’t it? Think about it: Fewer workers, fewer taxes, and fewer potential soldiers.
