Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world Cousin Mose @lemmy.hogru.ch 3w ago

I don’t want to live here (USA) anymore

Screenshot of alert from Citizen app with the title “Secret Service, ICE Raid Home, TV Crew May Be Filming for Dr. Phil”

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And it’s not just that it’s awful. Fascism is awful everywhere.

It’s that it’s just so goddamn tacky.
- Dr. Phil should stay in Texas with the other racists.
  
  Just remember, this guy could win an election the next time.
- Fascism is also tacky
Plan your exit
- Or do the world a favor after living in comfort at their expense for decades, grow a pair, and fight.
  
  I see this sentiment posted a lot on here, and while I don't disagree with the position, I'm not sure I understand what exactly is meant. When you say Americans should "grow a pair and fight", what are you envisioning? Should I drive to my state capital and shoot the governor in the head?
- A vest full of semtex
This is filming is the beginning of that show they mentioned a few months ago where people win citizenship. We are fucked.
- Win? Like a fucking gameshow? That's absolutely fucked.
  
  Edit:
  
  For anyone that happens to find this comment, the reality show was pitched to DHS. There's no evidence it went past the point of someone going "Hey DHS I have this horrible idea I want to make money off of". It's kind of like getting a spam call about your car's extended warranty and then CNN reporting "Wizardbeard making plans to extend car warranty". You can find this in the CNN report linked below about it.
  
  Separately, Dr. Phil has been traveling with ICE, officially to get first hand experience for reporting on the situation for the right wing "news" channel he's part of now.
  
  These could be related, but there's no evidence so far that they actually are. ICE and DHS are so distressingly awful that we don't need to speculate and stretch to find extra things to be disgusted about.
  
  It's fucking awful. It's unconscionable.
  
  Precisely that. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/16/politics/dhs-vetting-immigrant-reality-tv-show
  
  like a
  
  Not like a game show; no.
I decided in 2021 that if the election went to shit, I was moving to New Zealand. I even took a phone interview with a possible employer in Aukland. However, between 2021 and now, I ended up in a relationship with a refugee. She can't move with me or she loses her protected status.

After the election happened, I spent a lot of time thinking carefully about what I would do. Ultimately, the risks (like getting tied to a shitty job with a bad boss and not being able to switch because they were sponsoring my green card or whatever, plus being sad and lonely without a support network) outweighed the benefit (not being attached to the USA's shittier states). I remain stateside.
- On the plus side, you could be refugees together pretty soon! Wouldn't that be cool?
In 1950s americans were teaching Germany how to be anti-fascist and pro democracy... 75 years later they are a fascist country themselves, did a whole 180 degree turn around basically almost completely siding with Putin ideologies and are angry at the world for not understanding and for being surprised lmao ... Welp

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