• @raynethackery@lemmy.world
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    Don’t worry. He’ll be coming for Canada. You already have MAGA lovers up there. Who’s going to stop him? The Canadian military?

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      It already well on it’s way depending on your province. People have moved out of Quebec because of the intolerance going on there. Hell, I know a streamer who moved because someone threw a fucking brick through their window at his wife who moved there from the USA. Not because she’s black or colored either, because she’s white as a piece of paper.

    • @The_v@lemmy.world
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      It’s a shit ton harder than people realize… well at least to go anywhere in the industrialized world. Unless you are independently wealthy or have an extremely high demand job.

      Billy Bob who’s career is working at McDonalds isn’t going to get approved.

      • have an extremely high demand job.

        I’m banking on this actually. My specialties are, and my wife’s is as well. So I’m reaching out to companies I know with a presence to see what my options are where I’d like to go, and decide from there. I doubt we will be the only ones though, so we’ll see what that ends up looking like.

        The only up side is I’m in a very niche specialty with broad experience, have contacts on both sides of the work I do.

        I think I’m in a better position than most, and I still think its going to be an uphill battle.

  • @Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    Don’t move here. We have a bad enough housing crisis without a bunch of Americans showing up to take up homes and jobs. Stay in your country and fix your damn mess

  • @pixxelkick@lemmy.world
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    It’s not much better over here anyways, anti trans laws and oil industry dick sucking is ramping up more than ever.

  • @LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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    I’ve looked into it, believe me. New Zealand too. My wife is too rooted to our house, and we have an adult daughter still living at home with medical problems that would probably disqualify her.

  • Maple Engineer
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    Don’t come to Canada. We don’t have enough housing for the people already here. Most of you will die of exposure during your first winter here.

    Go to Mexico instead. I’m sure they’ll take you.

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        As a wisconsinite I can tell you climate change is destabilizing the polar vortex so now there’s about a week every year where it’s -40 so climate change isn’t just about warming but the general change and destabilization of the climate

        • GladiusB
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          Hot gets hotter and cold gets colder. I don’t know why think one without the other. It’s how the Earth fights back.

          • @Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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            Yeah that was the point of day after tomorrow movie. Granted it was extreme. Issues is I haven’t seen any of the cold yet…

    • Canada talking a lot of good shit in posts like this lately. Don’t get me wrong, I grew up near the border and I love Canada, but don’t pretend it’s not just a handful of resource extraction companies stacked in a trench coat pretending to be a country.

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        We rank above the US is virtually every metric. Education. Healthcare. Life expectancy. Lower infant and maternal mortality. Standard of living. Quality of life. Safety. Religious freedom. Personal freedom. Better place to do business. Better place to headquarter a business. Better beer. Maple syrup.

        But by all means, keep telling yourself whatever you need to tell yourself to get through the day.

  • @PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    Immigration in most developed countries is stricter than the US. And we all know the US’s immigration restrictions are insane.

  • @FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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    Canada is just america but 5-10 years behind on the crazy policies. It really isn’t any better and cost of living is often higher than in america.

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      This is simply not true. Did America have universal medicine 5-10 years ago? Subsidized education? Abortion and trans rights? Refugee policies? The only country in America attempting to highlight the genocide in Gaza? “Cost of living” isn’t higher on average, it’s the taxes and population density in specific areas that skew the numbers. Not surprising you cant count.

      Seems to me americans love to say Canada is americas retarded cousin (quoting tucker carlson) because it makes them feel better, but it’s simply not true.

      • @FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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        Our society isnt exactly the same as America’s but it does seem to mirror it a little more every year. For example we are on the brink of losing our public healthcare and some provinces are attacking trans rights. Canada has also been exporting arms to Israel during the genocide.

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          Fascism is growing. Saying we are america 5-10 years behind is stupid. I didnt say canada wasnt exporting arms, i said it’s the only one publicly calling out the problem.

          This garabge of “well we still send arms” with 0 nuance is why assholes like Trump get elected. Gtfo out canada you arent helping

  • @HRDS_654@lemmy.world
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    It’s not just that, people are acting like things are better in other countries. Like, name ONE country that has not gone off the deep end and ended up on the right recently. One major player. I’ll wait. There is no utopia waiting for you in those other countries because they don’t want you there and acting like you will be accepted as a refugee is foolhardy. The USA is a shit show right now, but we also don’t know the future. It looks bleak right now because of the information we have RIGHT NOW. If you want to move out of the country, be my guest, but don’t act like it’s going to automatically be better, it’s just going to be a different kind of shit show.

  • Scott
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    If it gets bad I actually will move to Canada, I’m a dual citizen

    • @Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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      Yeah the Trump win is only gonna help conservatives…I really hate them and their leader, but Trudeau has shit the bed for so long that people are just sick of him

      • @Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
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        The Liberals are admittedly a stale 3 day old cheap deli sandwich. People want something warm, fresh, and organic. Conservatives check all of those boxes.

        Too bad it’s horseshit.

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          Skippy will axe the carbon tax which honestly will make people like him enough to ignore some of the… other things he will do. That will lower prices of everything, maybe not to the levels of the beforetime because corpos won’t let that free profit disappear but it will make life easier for many.

          • @Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
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            Removing the carbon tax won’t appreciably lower the price of anything for any amount of time. It won’t make life easier for average Canadians because the average Canadian gets that money back. We’ll have the same prices, the same unachievable cost of living, but with fewer social supports.

            The free market has never once chosen morality over profit. Year after year we’ve proven we can suffer through it, so there is no motivation to change.

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              My guess is you don’t have a diesel vehicle or heat with furnace oil because let me tell you, what I get back doesn’t even come close to how much I’m spending. It’s a joke, now think of all the farmers, transport companies, they’re getting a fraction of what they’re spending on fuel , and all of that gets passed down the line. There’s a reason the Maritimes got a break on the carbon tax, it’s made heating with oil very expensive. And Diesel is taxed higher than that.

              If you don’t think the cost of goods went up when it cost more to produce the food, and ship the food…

    • jaxxed
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      Do you think that this is an import from the US kind of thing, or more of a global trend?

    • @Aeri@lemmy.world
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      My concern is that the train is still running at full speed even if the driver has died of a heart attack.

    • @HRDS_654@lemmy.world
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      That’s just it, I’m a white male, I know I’ll be comparatively fine. It’s not really me I’m worried about.

    • @jballs@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      I’ve been looking for silver linings. The two I’ve found are:

      1. Trump probably won’t live to see the end of his term. Dude is old and not exactly healthy. One could argue Vance taking his place would be worse, but I’m choosing to focus on the positives here.

      2. Trump winning very likely prevented a civil war. I know a ton of people who had been stocking up on supplies and weapons. Again, one could argue giving these people the keys to the kingdom probably wasn’t the smartest move, but again I’m trying to focus on the positives.

      • @BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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        I think he’s the devil and he’ll never die. I wouldn’t count on him dying. In my experience really poisonous people live a long time.

        • @chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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          It’s not like there was an assassination attempt during his rise to power and he survived with a headwound or anything like that, right?

        • @jballs@sh.itjust.worksOP
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          Hey, quit shitting on my silver lining. I choose to believe he’ll die soon due to Macdonald’s induced heart failure and you can’t take that hope away from me!

      • @Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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        Agreed on both points. The second means today is safer although Project 2025 spells danger ahead.

        As for Trump, his physical deterioration and dementia and just general chaos of intentions are more of a check on him accomplishing evil than anything legal or political. When he runs the economy completely off the rails will it spark anything in the midterms? Will his Cabinet change every week? How long until he “never met” Elon?

        So we draw breath, and persevere.

        • @explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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          The right was unified behind their belief that the election was stolen from Trump, and wanted him put back in power.

          The left can’t agree on leadership at all, and doesn’t think this election was any more stolen than it was in 2000/2016.

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        ROFL

        Trump didn’t prevent civil war. Think back to what happened after the Jan 6 insurrection. When they failed to stop Biden’s certification by valiantly committing minor vandalism and taking selfies, MAGA ominously promised that vague “actions” would occur in state capitals on his inauguration day. That day came and went, and the few “actions” that even happened had attendance in the dozens - mostly pathetic loners holding cardboard signs in the rain. The fired-up revolutionaries saw their freedom-fighting heroes methodically tracked down by the FBI and arrested, so instead of a civil war uprising they stayed home and posted angy tirades on Parler.

        Contrast this with any real cause, like the BLM marches, which saw thousands of people show up week after week, in city after city, in spite of police beatdowns, arrests, and even some deaths. The difference is personal commitment. MAGAs are great at making loud noises, but when they’re faced with the prospect of individual risk, most of them just hide in their freedom bunkers and shake their tiny fists at the TV. That bunch of blowhards will stock up on survival rations and tactical desert boots, but they couldn’t civil war their way out of a Walmart.