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  It's probably worth trying first to move to a blue state and see how that goes for now. It'd be cheaper and easier than moving overseas, and you should be fine through 2024. Then we'll have to see what happens that year. Moving abroad is quite expensive after all.
context: The problem is the main people who would need to get out the most are also the people who are least likely to have the means to do so. >
  
  If I manage to get out because of my priveleged circumstances (job with international locations), you’d best believe I will turn right around and do everything in my power to help other people escape. I will find an organization, or I will fucking found one myself. I don’t know about the rest of the world but I won’t forget that I’m lucky to even have the option and I’ll use my privelege to help others. >
  
  Shouldn't be leaving. People are willing to just give up their homes and not fight is a huge issue. Thats what they want. You want freedom? The price is your life. No one every got anything by running away. 
  Conceding the country to fascists will have global implications we have never witnessed before. You thought the Nazis were bad. Holy shit if the Nazis had the military that the US has now they would have taken over the world >
  
  It'd help if people would take heed our cries of danger and attempts to organize instead of just calling us "dramatic" and ignoring the encroaching forces because they aren't directly influenced by these actions. I have tried for years attempting to call alarm to this stuff in my personal life and all it seems to have done is distance me from people who just want to ignore politics where they can and live their lives.  
  It's exhausting and demoralizing when the best efforts you can muster is a single person picket that people call you "crazy" for doing and trying to warn others that there's fascists trying to do fascist shit in this country. >
  
  This, exactly this. No one will fight for us. If I stand and fight, I will quickly die and everyone will say “oh how sad, well, onto our next story” and no one will want to discuss it because they “don’t like talking about politics.” I’m tired of asking the american people to step in. They won’t. We’re considered acceptable casualties and I won’t walk willingly into that fate. >
  
  Martyrdom isn't noble. Survive and tell your tale. Do what you must, all of you. I left and will help catch those who come after. I fear for my friends and family, especially those who are traditional targets, but now there is soft landing for them if they need to leave. This creates opportunity for others to escape last minute. You cannot build a better life for people and be a force for positive change if you are dead or otherwise hampered. 
  Right wing power structures are inflexible and do not last, they will eat their own eventually. Do not become a casualty. Nothing is learned when no voices are left to tell their stories. The left is too fragmented. There needs to be consolidation first for there to be a fight. Most of us aren't built to be revolutionaries, and that's ok. Violence is unnatural to us. Those that aren't fighters need to help those in need. >
  
  
  Martyrdom isn't noble
  
  Martyrdom is actually another means of psychological torture that authoritarians employ, similar to sin. 
  The whole purpose of glorifying it is twofold: Get rid of opponents that do not fight(the martyrs) and cause guilt  to the ones that survived , because they were not "selfless enough" to sacrifice and thus lesser than the martyrs.
  
  Right wing power structures are inflexible and do not last, they will eat their own eventually
  
  Which usually happens either by war because they turn outwards, or by regime ending revolution when oppression reaches boiling point. Both events are actually pretty nasty and it's better to avoid them if you can. >
  
  Yes, I'm a revisionist at heart, however, the bare minimum for balance has left the scale too long ago. This is not the first time that this has historically happened to a country and the left is less organised than it was a century ago. We're heading towards strange times, compounded by climate issues. Archeologically speaking, as it's my job, this means warfare and mass migration is imminent. >
  
  Thing is, what country is hankering for refugees from the Alabama of the world? >
  
  In fairness, as someone who lives in MA, my state is closer to Scandinavian countries in terms of education and job opportunities, safety, access to good healthcare etc.. it's more likely that a liberal from Alabama moves to MA than something like Finland or Sweden >
  
  This why there is going to be an inherent fracture of blue and red states. Not saying civil war, just some sort of fracture in power is coming.
  Blue states on the whole are better off financially, socially, and they will be damned to let the shitbag red states dicate to us.
  The repeal of Roe, for example, and the attempt by red states to chase down people who seek safe care in blue states is reminiscent of the fugitive slave act all over again. 
  Also, for those who are all about leaving the US we're too big, too powerful, to not have an effect wherever you would go if the crazies take over. The key is to strengthen our blue states against the tide and be ready to hold onto the ideals of the republic. >
  
  I've been a big fan of blue states cutting federal funding and diverting fed taxes to the state level if we continue down this path. 
  Break them fiscally. >
  
  This would of course be the ”small government” that is apparently the ideal. >
  
  Small government for me but not for thee. >
  
  Each state getting what they pay in sounds like a great idea. Blue state tax and blue state gain. I would carve out a interstate road system funding. We need that for national commerce. We don't want good truckers getting stuck in the south side of Chicago, LA, Detroit, and Portland. Need to be able to cruise right on by those places. California's moving trucks still need a path to Austin Texas as well. >
  
  As a Black American, we’ve already seen how bad things can get. Backlash to Reconstruction led ultimately to the Jim Crow era’s disenfranchisement, segregation, lynchings, coups, mass internal migration, ethnic cleansing, and more. It’s the stuff they don’t want taught in schools. 
  Black History is often seen as a stand-alone topic but it’s highly useful in explaining a lot of America’s political history and trajectory. >
  
  And not just for Black Americans; all POCs history has been readily removed as to not offend (some) Caucasian's delicate sensibilities. >
  
  Not all caucasians, just saying >
  
  Hah fixed that. ✌ >
  
  “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched… Hey, where you going?” >
  
  I remember watching an episode of the Handmaids Tale a while back where one of the characters, who is a lesbian and works at a university, gets outed by one of her students, has a gay coworker who is hung from a balcony, and ends up trying to flee to Canada with her wife and child, but gets stopped because they don’t legally recognize her as the child’s parent because her wife was the one who carried the child.  
  That episode is starting to look a lot less like fiction. >
  
  The whole damn series is on the brink of becoming our reality. >
  
  I said this when the SCOTUS went red and got downvoted, so I’m glad that people are finally realizing this. >
  
  Don’t take the down votes seriously. The roving bands of r/qonservative vigilantes can strike anywhere, anytime. >
  
  Haha, yeah I don’t, just happy people realize that it being a reality isn’t too far fetched at this point