• CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Study after study has been done on every election looking for people who publicly say they are moving if their party lost. They found consistently that the number of people who follow through are in the single digits.

    Trump famously said he was going to leave the US when he lost to Biden. We all begged him to go but nope.

    MAGAs have repeatedly said they are going to move to Russia or Argentina or other conservative places only to realize they wouldn’t be in the ruling class.

  • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned
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    Maybe you should do a reverse-Kirk. Find all those who wanted to leave and expose them publicly, document them if they have actually left the city or not.

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    Some people said similar stuff before Trump was elected and while they didn’t move there are a ton of people being deported

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      Conversely, many who voted for him are leaving the country by being deported. Bet they didn’t see that coming, although any moron should have because that is what he campaigned on. They just got what they voted for. Hurray.

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        Conversely, many who voted for him are leaving the country by being deported.

        The “haha, Trump supporters are self-deporting” always seems to put a veneer of schadenfreude over what is a monstrous crime against a population with virtually no democratic representation. The brunt of these ICE assaults are in liberal cities, targeting black and brown people, many of whom are being punished while in the process of following the law. Agents snatching people at court hearings or while filing visa or green card paperwork. Agents assaulting people at hospitals and schools. Agents snatching parents from their children in line at the airport. The overwhelming majority of these residents can’t even vote.

        One of the grossest aspects of modern liberalism is this naive need to believe Trump’s policies are some kind of karmic justice. Nothing about this is just. Nothing about it is going to “self-correct”. The nation is being raped and pillaged.

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          Oh, we know. Given a choice, we wouldn’t have any of this.

          But seeing these people suffer the consequences of their own actions and then have the gall to whine about it makes it hard to empathize with them specifically.

    • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Moving from a state/city to another is relatively easy, at the cheapest (assuming rental apartment) you can. Move from city to city in the US for around 3-6k depending on distance. Leaving the country is much harder, especially if you have items you care about, pets, family… Etc.

      Also fuck him its my home the can leave if its so bad. That’s like having a shitty houseguest for an evening and just ceding the property to them.

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      I first saw this each time Bush was elected. So many people vowed to move to Canada if that bastard got elected.

      Then the bastard got elected. And Canada reported like a tiny spike in traffic to their immigration information website. I think actual applications were up a statistically insignificant amount.

      I guess it’s like the difference between filing for bankruptcy and Declaring It, Michael.

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    They’re leaving NYC like a lot of those folks who said they were leaving America if Trump won are moving to… I dunno… wherever they were planning to go.

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      Talking to a friend in NZ - he says there’s been a big influx of Americans, welcomed by tech firms because at the same time a lot of skilled NZers are leaving for Australia. I’m told some of the wealthier tech bros, eg Peter Thiel, are building bunkers in NZ ready for the apocalypse.

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        That’s exactly where I’d love to move if I can’t stay in the US. Got the tech profession and everything…

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    Pff.

    Same people driving around NY all year with Florida, Georgia, and Carolinas license plates. They’re already tax dodgers and don’t have their permanent address as NY.