• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Yikes

    It’s incredible that despite how shit the US has become It’s still a better place than 1984 land

    A real communist country would have a UBI that doesn’t pressure people to become scammers and grifters, just to make a wage in a shit economy with little financial opportunities.

    • 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works
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      21 hours ago

      Its so funny to see people fleeing the US, meanwhile my maternal grandmother from China has a US naturalization oath ceremony like next week.

      Jumping from one burning pot to another is so awkward, but objectively speaking, it’s still a slight improvement.

        • 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works
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          6 hours ago

          She’s been here for nearly a decade, she’s fine I think. She lived with us, and she’s very annoying, but she did take care of me back when we were in China and my parents were busy working, so I guess I should probably be more grateful. I’m although I don’t exactly like her, I’m glad it’d become more difficult for this admin to target her with the soon-to-be citizenship status (not completely safe tho, but it’s relatively safer)

          I hope 2026 and 2028 goes well in terms of politics, because like… we have a lot of relatives in the US, it’d be very impractical for us all to like… move to Canada for example (because I doubt Canadian immigration officials would take American asylum cases seriously).

          (Pls, some future time traveler come course-correct this timeline)