all 31 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 123 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Classic. Same energy as the woman who voted for trunp because he wanted to kick out all illegals…..only the catch was her husband and father of their children was ….Checks notes …. iLLegAL iMMiGraNT from Mexico. Dude got picked up by ICE, got deported, and woman was left with all the kids and a solid pikachu face.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Honest Q: aren't you a citizen when you marry in?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    No you have to apply for a green card and there are specific requirements.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's also extraordinarily expensive

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How much are we talking about? You see on TV shows that many are eager to do it.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you don't use a lawyer, pro se can cost between 2k and 3k for the fees. Going through the process for my mother in law currently.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    So much cheaper than the UK.

    It’s something like £2k ($2,500) for the fees (for 2.5-3years, depending on visa type), plus a buy in for NHS services, approximately £1k/year ($1,300 x 2.5-3) for the length of your visa.

    6 years to become a citizen, if you’re not married to a Brit, or 5 if you are.

    It is in excess of £10k over the 5-6 years to get to the point of permanent residence (£2,300) which you can then follow up with citizenship (£1,580).

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Correct. Also, I read somewhere that if someone is here illegally and even if they marry a citizen they have to stay out of USA for between 3 - 10 years to be eligible for permanent residency via marriage.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 64 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Medicaid expansion has kept my mother alive with cancer 13 years longer than her prognosis.

    She’s as diehard MAGA as anyone I’ve seen.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The level of stupid is truly remarkable.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Surely the realization would make her stop voting for tru… oh never mind, I give in.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] [S] 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    If you know of a way to deprogram and educate 74 million people in eleven months, now would be the time to let us know.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I've thought about this more than you care to know.

    Brutal reality: Uncensored images of maimed elementary kids bodies projected into Sunday church across the nation.

    I don't have the solution but I know what problem we need to overcome is: (1) breaking into echo-chambers, and (2) delivering a credible enough message.

    Fascism festers in areas of ignorance. Low education, low critical-thinking skills, etc. That's the conservative way. All of the money Democrats earn must go to these PSAs to discuss basics of critical-thinking and historical events. People are ignorant to history and inside their little bubbles will never otherwise. As people are spammed with basic information about civics, perhaps some things will finally click.

    I think about what flipped my rural Appalachia blue collar religious pro-life gun-toting family. It was a perfect storm of the wild west of the internet, my dad having a flashback to his hippy days when Bush invaded Iraq, and my mom realizing the religious history books were bullshit.

    Most of these people taking the bait are uninformed and desperate for excitement in their dull lives. Best bet is flipping it on its head and telling them they're being duped and it's a conspiracy to control THEM.

    Nobody. Nobody changes overnight. No single fact will change a person. It has to be a relentless exposure to reality until they decide to come out from Plato's Cave and see the light.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [+] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Thanks for your comment. It just so happens that my wife is an OR circulator nurse and the things she's seen... Well, at some point she has to vent that stuff off. But these are the people on the front-line who see the horrors as you surely know.

    The sheer amount of head-in-sand ignorance is only perpetuated by this censorship. WaPo did a controversial publishing recently, but even they backpedaled from showing the bodies of Uvalde or Sandy Hook despite certain parents' permission.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    On one hand you're alive because of a policy, on the other hand is pure shit. Such decisions were never designed to be made by mortals.

  • source
  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    It's almost like it takes a lot of deception to get them to vote that way.

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    The only true answer to this is to find a swingset glitch and GTFO.

  • source
  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago
    [+] 1 point 2 years ago