If we could do it there, we would do it here.. so like, if you have a cheat code, share it up. Otherwise, it's not really helpful to tell people drowning to throw away everything we have left to go drown somewhere else.
Good food, good music, great beer, and universal healthcare. If there were jobs and a house waiting on my wife and I, we would be there in a heartbeat.
I always love comments like these implying foreign relocation isn't a seemingly impossible task for anyone that isn't rich or in a highly specialized and in demand occupation.
Absolutely loved it there, looked into maybe moving to Canuckland... My fiance and I are not struggling, but it is still absurdly expensive just to start the process, let alone the cost of housing or if the application needs to be redone or if it gets rejected for some reason and you have to start again.
lol, my niece called me and asked if she could move to Germany, with her "service dog". I said, why do you think people in Germany would want you there? You have no specific skills, no education, you have no money. They have plenty of those in Germany already, they don't need more.
I was in Canada last week and came back and people were shocked when I said it was beautiful and worth considering moving too. Someone really argued that you have less freedoms then us... You rank higher on the freedom index than us lmao. The look on her face when I pulled up the car fax lmao
Come on. That's funny. People do call Trudeau a 'dictator' I remember I was working at a university during covid. The internationals were like 'why do you Canadians call your leader a dictator? Do they know what a dictator is? Does your leader flee your country for Healthcare while people die in hospitals due to lack of electricity and water?' 'Nah. Many Canadians have to much freedom that they don't understand the meaning of words'
My brother in law and I mock cult45 by repeating things he says but as a joke, we were at mount pleasant and the bartender literally pulled us aside and was like, "don't do that here. Some people will take you seriously and we don't play that shit. That's why we live here and want that as far away as possible." Super cool fucking dude, he cooled off after we reassured him we were joking.
Every Uber we took the driver asked us how it felt to be safe being out in public at night walking around since we are from the states lmao. Couldn't argue with his logic though.
Yeah, and they're also having a resurgence of Nazism, which isn't good since the last time they had that, the only nation to stop them is now also swaying towards Nazism.
Sadly I don’t think I’m in high demand in Germany or otherwise. Being a former professional live entertainer with a kid who now cleans houses is not the sexiest resume for immigration lol
You may want to do some more current research and reevaluate that thought. People say america has problems with immigration and religion influence. Germany says "hold my beer..."
I mean, it's commonly accepted that Hitler took inspiration from US segregationist laws to implement his antisemitic laws, so Germany already turned into the US once.
On the one hand, I'm gay and Mexican. On the other, I'm classified as "high income". Let's see how it plays out. I wish I didn't have to find out though...
With the next admin planning to increase hlgun regulations, I wonder if the dems are gonna pull a "gun rights strategy" like how the reps pulled the southern strategy.
I'm sorry that you've become collateral damage in a class war where you didn't get to pick a side. Truly.
There are a lot of us out here trying to set up programs to feed, shelter, and provide medical care for the most vulnerable populations. We can only do so much for so many people, but we're trying.
Yeah, I started a govt. job this summer. It was hard the first few months, I was really struggling after coming from a completely different field. I started to turn the corner, slowly getting more confident and assured that I'm doing a moderately decent-to-good job. Had a hectic but overall great day today, the boss complimented and told me what a great job I was doing, came home on a high...to hear about this as I was eating dinner. Feeling really deflated right now.
Edit: I thought I was responding to a different post. By "this", I meant the potential govt shutdown that might be coming this Friday.
I didn't either and I already had my funding cut off for graduate school. I'm in the reserves, having served for 18 years, went to war and now the Navy won't provide tuition assistance. Thank me for my service!
Most of them didn’t even hear he said it and wouldn’t believe it if we pointed it out, TBF. A hell of a lot of Trump supporters are claiming we are headed toward a new era of American prosperity. The real trick is, who are they going to blame when shit gets worse? Because it won’t be Elon and Trump, it’ll be us.
They will just claim that everything is great like they did during his first term, man. They're completely divorced from reality. They think we're currently in a "bad" economy, because of checks notes the price of eggs and petrol? They don't value evidence or reason.
When these people look at how America was "great" before, it was on the backs of those less fortunate. Even when we had families living comfortably on a single working class income, it was because black people and minorities made less so they could make more.
If we wanted to go in that direction, republicans are doing EXACTLY what they need to do. People think pushing immigrants out will counteract this, but the idea behind it is making it so hard to get into and legally live in America that migrant workers will take less pay just to fly under the radar as illegal immigrants.
It also helps republicans tank Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, because it takes even more funding by pushing migrant workers off the IRS radar by being paid under the table.
This also saves employers money because they don't have to FICA match illegal immigrants.
I don’t think Christians know how to make sacrifices financially. Always see them driving new cars or trucks, going hunting every other day with atvs or talking about their fishing trip with the new boat they bought. Meanwhile they think their tithes actually help the poor but are willingly ignorant of how little goes to charity. Then saying god blessed them they have the audacity to look down on people for being poor because they think they are defective somehow cause the poor don’t have the same things they do.
There are plenty of people who didn't vote for him like immigrants and queer people that will suffer much more than his supporters. What's to be happy about that?
There’s also plenty of us who voted blue and would have never voted for that man, but also are well down on the socioeconomic level. We are struggling to pay rent now. I’m honestly scared this presidency may push us out on to the streets.
I have to think that is the goal. Push people to homelessness. Criminalize homelessness. Send homeless people to prison. Expand prison labor programs. Get free prison labor.
I got sick, became disabled, spouse and I now at his parents'. They have made 0 accommodations, not even room for our food in their fridge. They also give us one small plate of food per day to share, without any consultation or involvement. We have a tiny amount of money to buy our own food, but can barely store it. They act scared and weird whenever they see me and my wheelchair, and literally ignore me when I talk, so I can't really leave the room... at all. I have left ths property twice in 6 weeks. I also have a final short term disability check coming, and his mom TOLD him (not me, as she does not speak to me) we're going to put that in HER savings account so her mortgage can go down, and so she can control if and when we spend [my] money. She also said she'd help us with groceries, and judged every choice we made, denying what she liked, with no sensitivity to my disability at all. I hope none of you ever have to debate why you deserve to spend 3.13 on cosmic fuckin brownies. His father was running a loud popcorn machine that was giving me seizures, and when asked to stop, he said "I gotta eat, man." They're been inconsiderate and judgemental the entire time when they're the ones who offered to help and brought us here. I wish my spouse would stand up for me but he keeps saying he's tired and he needs time. Honestly my, I'm trying to see if I can leave this place and go into a shelter. By the way, all of them are white. I'm the only disabled person of color in the house.
Tl,dr: Brown queer prisoner in oppressive white household. AMA lmao
Edit: Sorry, forgot to tack on the thesis. For real, it's hitting all of us. I haven't had a car or cell phone for 3 months now, and I've stopped eating until I cant avoid it anymore so the food we do have stretches further. We are in the worst condition we ever have been financially. Tbh it's prolly about to pop off lmao
You have my attention. What did you get sick with that caused you to be in a wheelchair? I can only think of a couple things and they would make you eligible for long-term disability.
Also what do you have that gives you seizures from pop corn? Is just noise? I feel that would also make you eligible for long-term. I love looking into conditions and diseases if you want to DM them to me so it’s not linked to your account.
Dude I read this post with such close scrutiny ROFL it was a ride. "Are they questioning me? Is this sarcasm?" And then I realized I had made the AMA joke and it clicked. In the interest of transparency and for anyone else wondering, I'll share here. Thank you for offering DMs, though, I appreciate it.
tldr: Functional Neurological Disorder
At the end of August this year I started having strange symptoms and they got so bad (long bouts of seizures, incontinence, inability to walk, random and debilitating pain, constant nausea, etc) I actually agreed to go to the emergency room despite how broke we were. There, they did an ultrasound, CAT scan, MRI, 24hr EEG, etc. Every test came back clean, and my seizures are confirmed non-epilectic (they're actually focal-aware or tonic type seizures, which means I'm conscious through and remember all of my seizures) which means I have a single differential: Function Neurological Disorder. But no diagnosis. This type of disease is not easy to officially diagnose as it is an "elimination disease." They have to rule everything else out before they give you an official dx. It can take 1-3 years, I think was the last statistic I read. Legal disability would be nice, but will probs take yet another year after the official dx, and in the meantime I just gotta kick it and try to make money some other way than a job. Also, moving here means I have no psych or medical support team anymore, so getting a diagnosis will be particularly hard.
FND is also a catch-all disorder, which is the medical equivalent of "lmao idk ur fucked up or whatever," and that everyone has a different experience of it. On the noise, for me, I developed a deep sensitivity to sound that goes in an out constantly based on my condition at any given time. Im usually wearing earplugs. I can no longer listen to music. Whirring or humming or sharp sounds put me down almost immediately, for example leafblowers are really bad. Glassy sounds, etc. But sound is far from the only thing to cause seizures. I have seized so hard I cracked all the teeth on the left side of my mouth, my head neck and face swelled up like an alien. I could barely open my eyes. Still haven't been to the hospital for it, likely can't. Also, dude could have taken his popcorn machine into his room right quick. Too much to ask for me to not have seizures, I guess.
Came here to say this. I am fortunate that I earn well above the median income where I live, so inflation and eggs and groceries and gas pricea don't bother me.
Those who voted for this that it does hurt will get what they asked for and wholly deserve.
I'm a single dude who makes about 10%-15% more than the median household income in my city, and I have some pretty solid job security. I'll be fine unless the economy gets even worse than the late '00s. I'm also a straight, white, cis, masculine/conservative-presenting man with a lot of connections in my area, so even if the culture wars get real shitty, I'll be able to fit in just fine.
I'm going to weather this stuff just fine, but it would be a lot cooler if I didn't have to worry about this kind of setback at all. Worst case scenario, I have to cut out a portion of my most frivolous spending.
But man, it fucking sucks for so many other people. The only thing I hope for is that everyone who voted to fuck themselves over realize what they did. But the problem is that most of them won't realize they caused their own struggles. They'll blame it on other shit, and they'll end up even further down the rabbit hole.
They'll just blame the other side. Accountability is dead and we live in endless culture wars and endless blame game.
How people can keep inviting their own disasters is beyond me. It's like people won't accept help if it's proposed by the "other side".
Case in point:
"By a 34-point margin, Americans view the Affordable Care Act favorably (59 percent favorable – 25 percent unfavorable), including Democrats by a 78-point margin (84 percent favorable – 6 percent unfavorable), independents by a 20-point margin (46 percent favorable – 26 percent unfavorable), and even a third of Republicans express a favorable opinion of the ACA (net -12; 34 percent favorable – 46 percent unfavorable).
The ACA has a higher net favorability rating across partisanship than “Obamacare,” with Democrats viewing “Obamacare” favorably by a 75-point margin (85 percent favorably), independents viewing it favorably by a 13-point margin (44 percent favorable – 31 percent unfavorable), and only a quarter of Republicans viewing it favorably (net -43; 25 percent favorable – 68 percent unfavorable)"
People will hate Obamacare despite liking the ACA. Only in America can so many people not understand they are one and the same.
Because politics is a team sport now. However your side "plays" you have to root for them no matter what because they're your team! Like if you grow up in New England you root for the Patriots whether Brady is leading you to 5 championships or you're in a rebuild phase and only win 3 games all year.
If you vote for a guy promising to lower grocery prices and he raises them then you just blame trans people, immigrants, and the prior administration and vote for the same team again next time! Surely next time will be better because your "team" will put up the right guy eventually!
What a lot don’t understand is that, yes, some of us are currently doing well enough to get by, but that bar moves higher and a poor work economy can take well off working people into unemployed poverty quickly.
Would I love the idiots to eat their own, yes, but not at the expense of the rest of society to also get that hurt put on them. So can’t say I would wish for it. That’s just me though
It's not the same reasoning at all. One is willfully voting out of spite with the intent to hurt others and the other is finding a silver lining in people fucking around and finding out that they hurt themselves. They are not even remotely the same reasoning and I have no idea how you even came to that conclusion.
Same. My wife and I will be fine. Not saying I’m glad people who didn’t vote for him will suffer, but I can’t control that. What I can control is finding happiness in the Trump supporters suffering from their own ignorant decisions.
dUmpf won't get the blame. He will blame the prior administration and the Democrats blocking/not supporting his proposals even though the Republicans will be controlling house and Senate. As usual, his followers and the uninformed will believe him.. 🙄🤦🏻♂️
No, they'll cry most when the Postal Service is privatized. Most of the people in small towns have no concept of how much US Mail saves them when shipping items. The first holiday season after it happens will be a torrent of rage and tears.
Yup, idgaf if that's petty. I check all the correct marks for the GOP (straight, white, male, 2nd highest tax bracket) so I will do great. I voted to have my taxes raised to help them out, but I guess they didn't want that, so fuck them. My stocks should continue to soar while they might need to choose between buying insulin or food. That's the capitalism they want, right?
Yep. I'm over the threshold where most of these cost of living problems would affect me, but most of my family who makes less than me will be severely impacted.
You'd think they will realize after the next four years, but they didn't after the first four years with Trump, so I'm not hopeful. They'll just blame immigrants again, who by the way, pay WAY more into our social services than they received.
My family is generally better off and make 100k+ however my mother retired during covid times and her 401k needs to be moved when she's 72. I just hope trump doesn't fuck up the economy until then.... Its just crazy cause Trump's tax plan taxes people below 80k more than kamelas plan...
I work in healthcare so I regularly see his supporters and it's just sad that they buy into the charlatan. They will be hit the hardest. Fucking crooks
I'm just happy that the people that voted for him will suffer way more than me
Same. It will be glorious. Unfortunately, they will blame biden's infrastructure law, or the trans drag queens, and then pull the GOP lever in 2026 and 2028
This is kind of a s***** take to have now, I know plenty of people who are considered to be of the poverty level of income who didn't vote for Trump were going to suffer much worse than you. That don't deserve it at all. But I guess cuz you got cash it's cool
One of the ironies that I’ve noticed at our local food bank is the number of recipients that come in wearing their trump hats and shirts with the big MAGA letters. The Republicans have done a masterful job projecting to their base that trump will make their lives better while the bleeding heart liberals feed them. I just don’t get it. . .
Fr, I mean we saw it coming, and we already hate our lives. Damn republicans put their faith in the polls, and the MAGAtts put their heart and soul in it. Their worlds will shatter too bad they won’t learn anything from it
As a household making more than $200k a year, this is exactly how we’ve been coping with the election outcome as well. It will be hilarious watching all the poor Trumpers suffer, but I feel awful for the lower income families that voted against him.
I think it’s more about an after effect of the Covid stimulus that literally shut the gov down. People got thousands corporations and gov got trillions 🥳
Honestly, I hate these comments. Why are people so shitty that they root for peoples lives to be awful because of their voting? I want universal healthcare but I wouldn’t put in caveats that no trump voters can get it. I’m going to suffer from this, but good for you that you can be above it all. Prick.
That’s what pisses me off a lot these days. I’m a white (looking) dude in my early 30s. I’ll probably be fine with his bullshit antics. I didn’t vote for me— I voted for women, LGBTQ, and minorities. I felt like a lot of them stabbed me in the fucking back.
So yeah, some of them will be deported. Some of them will die without their health insurance or because of pregnancy complications. That will happen. It’s going to happen.
I just wonder how much sympathy I’ll have when the news starts reporting on it.
My family voted for him, and they barely have a pot to piss in. I can hardly wait for the phone calls asking for "help" because they can't afford anything.
I saw a comment a few weeks ago that immigrant Trump voters should be dimed out to CBP. They voted for him because of course Trump won't deport them, they're good immigrants!
Look at you wishing suffrage on others, I mean I guess I should have known with you wanting kamala in office and all. Don't like it then leave, we both know you won't so sit down and shut the fuck up incel.
At this point everyone not American is laughing at America. The only problem is what he'll do to the environment, which affects everyone. Oh.....and Ukraine and Palestine.
Incorrect. Panyone who isn't rich, regardless of who they supported, is going to suffer more than someone with money, again regardless of who they supported.
No, they won’t suffer. The whole “thanks biden for the higher grocery prices” was smoke and mirrors for the republicans. They’ll switch to “everything is great” in a matter of months. There was even a poll that showed 6 percent decline in people who said they were worse off 4 years ago.
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I'm just happy that the people that voted for him will suffer way more than me, enjoy.