• Chickenstalker@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Leave, though. If enough people leave, only then will they realize how stupid they are. Your ancestors left the old countries on ships to the New World with only the clothes on their backs. Time for you Americans to emigrate elsewhere.

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      11 months ago

      “It is impossible for me to leave”

      “ThEn YoU ShOuLd LeAvE!”

      Are you illiterate?

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        11 months ago

        It’s never impossible, you could literally sell everything you own and go anywhere.

        But most people won’t because that’s terrifying.

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      11 months ago

      If it was easy enough for a significant amount of people to leave, the Republicans would love it because they could force out almost everyone that wouldn’t vote for them

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      11 months ago

      we’re fairly well off but my wifes job is at a university, how do I move several campuses, the student body and the rest of the staff with us?

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      11 months ago

      No, the Puritans were well-funded twats. Also, Texas isn’t America, I suppose everyone refers to France as Europe?

      What will happen is the few that can’t afford to leave Texas will remain in an oppressive state run by psychopaths with no chance to free themselves. Those that can stay and fight, probably should, but it’s also a huge ask to have people just trying to survive day-to-day also have to fight their shitty government back into the hell-hole from whence it came. They also have to deal with their own Texas neighbors who are too dumb to understand how repressed they are and actually like the direction that state is heading, as their own rights and freedoms are stripped away from underneath them.

      It turns out that moving costs money, the cost of living varies greatly in surrounding states, Texas is huge, and with more than 60% of Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck, the incidental expenses that pop up from a move would be too great for more than 60% of Americans. That’s even if they could find a job on the receiving end.