I wish it was easier to leave and immigrate. It's actually incredibly arduous to get all the paperwork needed for a passport, work visas, international application, etcetcetc.

Especially if you have family. Especially if you don't have a perfect little life. Needing to get documents or information from shitty relatives.... Try getting birth certs when you don't know where to look. You need that for a passport. Try getting a child a passport when their biofather is an absentee.

Got the musk picture perfect. He looks demented and incredibly stupid

It legit breaks my heart to hear stories of people like Jane Yang Wu (neuroscientist) and Wang Danhao (semiconductor researcher) killing themselves after facing racially motivated harassment from the government.

When I was young, I had this idealistic dream of getting into science for the benefit of all humanity. Racism has absolutely no place in science. Aside from having no place anywhere, it's such a perversion of the ideals so many people hold. Of course it's also stupid and self defeating because of brain drain.

The US seems to be fully committed to returning to mideval times.

I was watching a deep space nine episode about a Holodeck program where a spy character comes up against a super villain.

The super villain had captured the worlds top scientists and was destroying the planet to make a private island where he could and the scientist could start again. It was very Ayn Rand coded and reminded me of Elon Musk and other billionaire Capitalist Fascists ruining the planet.

I know it may seem that way, but I think you have too much trust in EU. And I am living in the EU myself.

EU definitely is also playing around with totalitarianism and fascistic tendencies. It's just they're able to get away with it under guise of "think of the children", which happens to actually be widely accepted argumentation in EU, as opposed to the US where you can literally befriend the most well known PDF file and still become the president.

Also, we have lots of doofuses here that legitimately adore the mango man and his crew. I'm really not sure why that would be, but it clearly is (go to any legacy social media and see it for yourself).

I think we're in a stage of global regression of the mind. People starting to believe totalitarianism is necessary. The only country I've heard that actually firmly stands against USA here in EU is Spain.

Europe’s top research funder has dropped a controversial new policy designed to stem a flood in applications, following an outcry from the bloc’s scientists.

Unfortunately, Europeans are as saturated with xenophobia as their American peers. And given their reflexive return to austerity and immigration restrictions, it's going to be harder and harder for Americans to cross the Atlantic.

Poll Shows Majority of Swiss Support 10-Million Population Cap Initiative

‘We did everything they wanted’: The American families caught in Italy’s citizenship crackdown

France’s new government pledges hardline stance on migration as it cozies up to far right

Meanwhile...

In the race to attract the world’s smartest minds, China is gaining on the US

Mexico looks to US and beyond to recruit staff and students

The Indian government is working on a new plan to attract top Indian-origin scientists and researchers who are settled abroad to work in Indian institutions.

The pathway out of the US is increasingly looking like a pathway into the Global South.

So the Nazis went to USA & are now sneaking back to Europe?

(The above was ofc sarcasm, but the rise of altrightbullshittery in EU is kinda scary.)

History keeps showing what happens when a country pushes away its scientists, teachers, and thinkers.

But this doesn't necessarily mean that Europe has tons of science jobs to offer, esp. for the usually young people who use the fediverse.

DONT FOrget the red scare, at least for some chinese scientist, fled the state and developed fission-fusion hydrogen bomb for the ccp.

Please Satan bring me a German tutor.

I've tried the Goethe A1 Deutsch app, Anki, actual German grammar primers. Self-directed learning is one of my weaknesses. Ive taken many other steps towards finding work there but learning the language has me stymied.