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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

You may just want the leave the country at this point my dude

[–] StonerCowboy@lemm.ee 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Running away and giving up. Is cowardice. Don't give these people that pleasure. We must rise n fight back. Collect yourself, prepare and just be ready. 1860s isn't far off and if its our turn to lead a revolution then so be.

Fuck the traitor rapist felon Donald Trump. Dude deserves capital punishment for treason.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Running away and giving up. Is cowardice.

Standing proud and dying in a gutter and being forgotten because a cop decided to break your skull open for the fun of it is not courage either.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Nah I'm good. I'm watching how things play out, and if it gets that bad I'll just rebuild my life in another country. Already got approved for Express Entry into Canada.

[–] StonerCowboy@lemm.ee -2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yep cowards will be cowards.

Good luck.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 hours ago

I'm fine with being a coward - I've had to be brave my whole life, it's some for someone else to fight. I've earned my peace.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

I really want to keep my books. I love my books and leaving them behind would feel like death. I’ve thought about Costa Rica or a few other places. The cost of the plane ticket is unrealistic; the likelihood of getting the books over is doubtful.

I’ve realized that I probably won’t survive this administration, and I’m just going to go down fighting. I lost everything I care about, and the least I can do is try to make it so no one lives a life like mine again.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Canada doesn't want poor (let alone trans) refugees any more than any other country wants poor refugees. It's a much more progressive country than many, but "just leave" isn't any more of a realistic option for persecuted groups under Trump than it was for the same groups under Hitler.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Are they actually taking anyone though? Everywhere I’ve looked has been like “the us isn’t actively killing LGBT people, so we don’t count it as refugee.”

I also just simply do not have the liquid resources. I can sell some stuff - but what then? Sleep on the streets in a country I’ve never lived in before? I guess people cross the Darien gap, but I’m also just physiologically broken now. My nervous system doesn’t work correctly - I have experienced actual torture. I can’t organize a plan to finish my graduate degree, much less get across a National border.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 hours ago

Well, by your own words the alternative is death. So if you truly believe that you won't survive this administration then yeah, hop across the border as a tourist and just don't leave.

[–] Grimtuck@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Wait it out for as long as possible, there's a non- zero chance that you will be accepted for asylum in the future if things keep going the way they are.