• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It's really privileged, and I still tell people that, because I've read a lot of stories where someone in Germany told their family "get out of germany" and the last message they ever heard from their family is a post card a few years later that said "you were right".

    If people can get out they should get out. There's no future here, and when it's all over no one will judge the people who escaped when they could. Because let's get real - we're all expecting death squads at some point.

      • FieriDepthsofHell [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Enormous caveats about being privileged Americans and shit cascading downhill from the global north as situations worsen, etc. but a couple of friends (with no money to speak of - one plays online poker professionally, the other makes a living translating Arabic somehow) have moved to Mexico and love it. The poker player is in Mexico City and the translator somewhere on the coast.

        With cartels and us sitting on top of them and all, I'm in no way sure I'd pick Mexico myself but there are parts of the developing world that I'm suspicious won't be worse for a working class person than the US in 10-15 years.

    • goldsound [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah, I get that. As lib as it is to do new years resolutions, I've decided I'll do one for 21: learn to gun