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Yeah, most of us paying attention felt these feelings back in November of last year. The rest of the world, and those not paying close attention, are still catching up in little bursts.

America is being dismantled and destroyed by a convicted criminal being backed by a minority of powerful (and powerfully stupid) people all across the nation.

They haven't won yet, for the record... But they are winning, and millions of people without wealth will pay for all of this. Me, you, just about everyone reading this... We will all be impacted while the wealthy do nothing but gain more wealth and power.

I imagine it's a matter of time before an actual threat of civil war begins to bubble up. There are too many people that oppose what's going on. America has finally been defeated by it's enemies, and only those paying attention understand this.

I guess Putin is the real victor in all of this. His stooge has done well. Fuck every traitorous member of the GOP for allowing this.

That's... a very russian attitude!

Yep. We had a solid 4 years for USA to figure some shit. Global pandemic to nail it home too. We didn't.

Republicans have been at this for decades. First round of Trump should have been enough. It wasn't. Now Republicans have full control.

You can only warn people for so many years. We are past that point. Everyone that refused to listen are now going to get what their wilful ignorance wanted.

Some countries are simply not cut out for democracy

I think the U.S. is too large with too many cultural differences by region to maintain a democracy in the long run. Ideally we would balkanize, with the blue states going their own way and forming their own democracies. Northeast blue state democracy. West coast blue state democracy.

I have no interest in continuing to try to maintain a democracy with low IQ fascist domestic terrorists anymore. It clearly isn't working.

At least there are no official death camps in this bill.

Sorry to be a downer, but ICE's funding is now high enough that one of the few plausible explanations for it is that they plan to create concentration camps of immigrants (and, hey, well we have all this money and space, maybe just all other undesirables too...?)

I'm one of the privileged people to have studied engineering and was able to move to Germany relatively easily (due largely to luck and some good planning). If you qualify for an EU Blue Card that may be an easy path towards a new life outside of the US.

If you are in college or younger it's easy to start making plans to give you your best chances of success. And if you're retired, approaching retirement, self-employed, or something akin to a digital nomad you should have less problems moving somewhere close like Canada or Mexico.

Not saying it's easy, but there are paths. The cool thing about borders and countries is they're all made up. French people need the same goods and services as Americans (with variation of course) and thus most labor is needed in most places. With declining birth rates nearly everywhere, the smartest countries are opening their borders to immigrants or have been open for a long time.

Anywhere that will take you. You are a refugee now. Leave.

Only if you're counting the Coast Guard and Space Force (and maybe others I might be forgetting). So don't do that, it would make Donjuanme wrong.

Relevant username.