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  • My parents have a small bussiness here, and like, we can’t just thanos snap and move everything.

    Remember that many jews said the same thing in Germany before the war, until they realized it really was time to get out of Dodge and they couldn't.

  • Curious, what country did you go to

    I lived in many countries. The one I went to when I left the US was the UK. But it was in Europe back then. I would never move there now.

    Because AFIAK, there only a few ways

    You missed mine 🙂 I had dual citizenship. I simply gave one up. I had to pay the extortion racket but other than that, that's all I had to do.

    Also, if you're trans or not male or female (some people are born with extra X and Y chromosomes, which flies in the face of the administration's idiotic male / female classification), you've basically become a non-person in the US. As such, I'm fairly sure you could make a convincing case for asylum in many European countries.

  • If I was still an American (I gave up my citizenship after Dubya shat the USA Patriot Act) and part of an at-risk group - and there are many - I would seriously consider emigrating at this point.

    Don't do like the jews who stayed in Germany after 1933 thinking it can't get any worse: it will get worse and you don't want to be stuck in the US when it's too late to leave.

  • The morale of the store is, read the release notes to see what’s changing.

    You do that, I do that, but most people just click Update. And that's if whatever wants to update itself lets you even opt out: Windows for example will nag you into submission at best, and more likely simply apply the update without asking your permission, and while you're in the middle of important work if it wants to.

  • Same here. But I avoid saying it too often because I always get jumped by a bunch of forced-upgrade lemmings who insult me and tell me I'm a dumbass because I expose myself to immediate and terrible danger from evil hackers in the next 30 seconds. Which of course isn't true, but most people have been so drilled into blindly updating anything anytime an update is available without even checking what they're installing that they'll aggressively confront you if you don't.

  • The instance I use (SDF) has stopped fetching Youtube video titles and thumbnails weeks ago. I just add them manually now.
    The SDF instance runs 0.19.8.

  • Most people have money in the SP500 through their 401(k), sadly.

  • As long as Trump obeyed the judges - or at least didn't disobey them - he was still south of the dictatorship line. Now he's crossed the line. Because the judicial was the last rampart before tyranny, and all previous dictatorships became official when they started ignoring the law.

  • Yes of course, an article is subjective to a large degree. What I meant was that the site tries to itemize all the issues so as to minimize the subjectivity.

  • The reason I sympathize with Madam is the same reason I sympathize with most migrants: they're not doing it to hurt the country they migrate to, they're trying to have a shot at a better life. I totally get what you're saying but that doesn't make her a bad person.

    Sir however is a dumbass: he did the very thing the guy he voted for said he would crack down on and now he's bitching and moaning... Well ya know, faces, leopards and all that.

  • It's not sentimental: it attempts to measure the percentage of each of the 14 characteristics of fascism the United States meets, then combines them into a single "fascism completion" score.

  • I pity Madam but I have little sympathy for Sir.

  • I'm sure the Finns aren't exactly keen to take a price hike on eggs to meet a hostile country's needs.

  • I use this metric and it's more like 72% of the way there.

    Full-blow fascism can be achieved well before the whole of Project 2025 is put in place, apparently.

  • It takes a special kind of crazy to say vaccines have untrustworthy ingredients over the dead body of your unvaccinated child.

    Mennonite man

    Ah... right okay.

  • Yeah but in this case, I doubt he'd dare publicly defend his track record against that of Hitler.
    ...or would he?

  • Do we call this full-blown Nazism yet or do we wait until the first concentration camp opens on US soil?