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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 118 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Orange Diaper is burning my country’s goodwill to the ground and I’m so happy to see the rest of the world telling us to fuck off, and more importantly fucking with Americas wallet.

Consequences for bad behavior is the only way it ever gets corrected.

[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's like someone wished for more European defense spending but to the monkey's paw

The US wants better European militaries in case we can't help or share, not because we want to flat out refuse to help or share

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The US wants better European militaries in case we can’t help or share

Instructions unclear, got weapons to defend against the US instead...

Suddenly nobody wants an F-35 anymore.

[–] musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe if things go poorly Europe will have to come liberate you guys and spread some democracy.

[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We ally with California, Mexico and Canada then liberate the Gilead Republic (see The Handmaid’s Tale series and Civil War film).

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[–] HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 86 points 3 days ago (7 children)

They look like they’re being told to smile or a family member will be killed.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 96 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I've spoken to some Fins and it's being that close to another human being causing that.

/S but only slightly

[–] FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They sound like my kind of people. Time to look into graduate school in Finland

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There was a meme picture of a Finnish bus stop with people queueing leaving about 1-2m between each person. When it was still current, I asked some friends of mine about it and they said "yeah, we definitely like our personal space", especially out in the countryside.

[–] tajunta@lemmy.wtf 30 points 3 days ago

At the time of the pandemic it was hard for us Finns, as they said we should be 2 meters away from each other. Too close!

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[–] Ravi@feddit.org 81 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Come to Germany! We do everything like the US, but with a 4 year delay and 10% less intense! Relive your memories of when your homeland went down the drain!

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

I feel like the 4 year delay is gonna hit it's threshold and start surpassing the US. Maybe I'm wrong but I feel like Germany has the populous to shift very quickly. Now that the US is full Fascism I feel like Germany just got the acceleration card equipped. Which will also influence the rest of the west and Americans to hit the "kill all Muslims" button as hard as they can.

Starting with "Hamas/Palestine/Antisemitism" as the justification.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I still have the hope that people see the trainwreck the US is now and go "oh shit", and try to avoid it

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The reaction to Brexit in the rest of the EU - where almost from one month to the next people's support for the idea of leaving the EU crashed to less than half as much as shown in various polls at the time - gives me hope that what Trump is doing in America is actually crushing the chances of his ideology in the rest of the World.

This seems to already be happenning in Canada (we will know for sure once the result of their upcoming elections is out).

In summary, I think there is good reason to hope that the result in the rest of the World of the Fascist Far-Right taking over a high-profile country like the US will be either the crushing of the Far-Right or it very explicitly distancing itself from the kind of ideology espoused by Trump - in other words, that America, just like Britan with Brexit, is really and unwittingly taking one for the rest of us.

[–] cabinet_sanchez@midwest.social 18 points 3 days ago (5 children)

As a pretty terrified American, I actually take some comfort in this idea. Please learn from us. I just hope if things get that far here, that the rest of you will have some empathy for those of us who did not want this. So many comments from people in other countries are blaming every American for this. Seeing so many of those comments (mostly on Reddit) has been the second scariest part of all of this for me. I'm used to being hated in the abstract for being an American, but to think that if the fascists here get their way people like me have no hope of escape is too much to think about

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[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 67 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Living somewhere else is quite tempting in a grass is greener way, but it feels like moving out of my house because of pests. What I'd really rather do is eradicate the pests and get my home back. Even if I move, how long until I have to suffer new pests? Meanwhile the more sane of the two completely out of touch parties that comprise my government are like my housemate, and they keep leaving food wrappers and shit all over the place and they refuse to call an exterminator because it would be "cruel". But these no-kill traps ain't doing shit. Figuratively speaking, of course.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 days ago

Sometimes you gotta move out and leave your roommate alone in the mess, for them to hopefully realize that they are the problem

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[–] hash@slrpnk.net 58 points 3 days ago (13 children)

Their schools were already orders of magnitude cheaper. Get ready for extreme brain drain!

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 25 points 3 days ago (10 children)

I'm hoping to get into a pretty well regarded game dev school in Sweden that is $25k USD for the entire degree. Comparing it with anything similar in the US is mind boggling. Schools here are impossibly expensive

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] SyntaxError@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

University in Sweden is free for swedish citizens, it used to be free for foreign students as well, but since some years ago the universities are allowed to put fees on foreign students. Dont remember the exact details of how it works. Edit: looked it up, still free for people from EU, EES and Switzerland, and people living in Sweden with a resident permit.

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[–] tauonite@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Completely free. Kind of. It's like less than €200 a year to study at a university in Finland.

[–] kaarne@leminal.space 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

This is true only for students from the EU/ETA area: for students from outside it is a minimum of 1500€/year to study in a school of higher education.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 days ago

Which is still cheap for many Americans.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

So the cost of like one class in the US.

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[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 54 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is this why Elon is pushing for anti-immigration parties in the EU? He doesn't want people to leave?

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 3 days ago

Of course he doesn't want people to leave, how can he be king if all his serfs leave?

[–] F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 54 points 3 days ago (4 children)

This is amazing for us in Europe, bring all the educated ones and leave the Trumpers there

Fully onboard with this, welcome to Spain amigo.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 days ago (4 children)

well to some of us americans, who can’t leave, this is horrible… but logical….
the last thing i want is all the reasonable people to leave, and be stuck with these fuxks….

i kinda wonder now, how much did people fleeing nazi germany contributed to them solidifying power?

[–] parrhesia@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's kinda funny, this is what Texas did to Oklahoma in regards to our teachers. Put up billboards saying that they paid more in Texas. It's depressing but it worked lol.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

oklahoma wasn’t great before that, but at least it was OK…

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[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 days ago

The world is looking to China too, their sciences are blossoming. Exciting times ahead while Americans decide who they are and want to be and eventually go through their own Enlightenment. Things are bad now, but tyrants always fall eventually. I think we are entering a sort of golden age for science.

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[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 3 days ago (4 children)

My daughter is about 2 years from graduating high school, and even before Trump came into office I was urging her to consider non-US colleges. Mostly because she wants to go into medicine and our healthcare system has been broken for much longer than I can remember. But also the rise of Fox News (and others) getting away with stating provable lies as fact, Joe Rogan, et al. showed that there has been an inflection point and the country is being led around by the dumbest of us.

She's fluent in Spanish, though jumping straight into a medical program would introduce a lot of new specialized words, and might be to much. We're starting to look into options though.

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

College introduces a lot of new words in general. It is what it's for, plus, she will be in pre-med. Go for the Spanish route. She will flourish. :) Spain is so lovely. I hope I can land something there next.

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[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Medical English is largely stripped-down Latin, I wonder how similar medical Spanish is

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[–] Bunbury@feddit.nl 31 points 3 days ago (7 children)

And as far as I’ve seen the numbers it’s working too. Anywhere in Europe that is academic or sciency is seeing record numbers of Americans applying. The brain drain will be real.

[–] edryd@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It has already been happening for several years now, it's just accelerated since Trump. Even before his first term there was a "negative brain drain" of educated workers no longer coming into the US because the benefits (paid time off, health care, etc) are so much worse compared to other countries, even when considering the higher pay. America used to rely on a steady stream of incoming highly educated workers.

But now there is a huge amount of well established academics leaving for Canada, EU, or anywhere else that will pay them. I work in a physics department at a large R1 university in a very liberal state, and we are losing 4 (that I know of) high regarded professors just this year alone moving to other countries.

The brain drain is here, and won't be reversing course even if Trump suddenly disappears. We would have to completely change how we reward work and our failing healthcare system for anything to change.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It low-key reads like one of those "lonely singles in your area" ads.

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This feels sad on the surface, as an American who went to college 25 years ago and is used to seeing people from around the world move here to learn, teach, start businesses, etc.

But giving it any real thought, damn it, it is much better for humanity this way. Climate change isn’t going to pause while the world watches us collapse.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 22 points 3 days ago

Say less, I'm omw

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Estonian here, first Yank* scientist on Lemmy to come work at University of Tartu gets a beer on me. Note that when I say "come work at" I mean I live in the city, not that I work at the university too. I dropped out after a semester and a half lol

* Yank refers to the entire USA here, though younger generations don't use it much. You could be from Texas or California and still be a Yankee.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 16 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Man I just love being undesirable in every country due to my beliefs, lifestyle, or lack of a degree.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 34 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Explain the "beliefs" so I can judge you.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Actual free market at work, as opposed to the shit we have in the U.S.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Americans: Ok sure, but SoCiAlIsM!

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 28 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Oh no, careful, you might just get affordable healthcare!

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[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Emotional, fucking, damage.

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