• Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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    Fled America when Biden was still president. Urged all my friends to do the same. If told-ya-so’s were money I’d have fixed income in perpetuity.

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      Unfortunately, moving is expensive and citizenship elsewhere is expensive and complicated.

      I’ll get the fuck out eventually. Hopefully.

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        A lot of people don’t have good options, I hate how much governments treat people like property and immigrants like invaders. I’m a dual citizen but getting family visas for everyone else has been financially ruinous. Hope they can get citizenship soon.

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      When trump won in 2016 I told all my trans friends to buy guns and bought them books about starting mutual aid/defense networks, explaining to them the democratic party soon would abandon them.

      They were all still pretty liberal and were still very antigun. A lot of them thought I was losing it at the time. Since then I’ve taken most of them to the gun range to teach them how to shoot.

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        You’re a good friend. Hope the mutual aid is going well, it’s a less exciting day than the gun range maybe - but that’s going to be a big deal sooner or later.

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          Yeah, unfortunately we live in one of the most conservative states in the US, so if something were to happen to them calling the police wouldn’t exactly be a great option. If all the bigots are strapped up there really isn’t any other option than to arm yourself to protect your community.