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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Make sure I have enough meds and reach out to friends to make sure they're safe and are able to get their HRT.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Keep working, drinking, and sleeping. Not much else to do no matter who wins.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Start doing whatever I can to keep your conservatism out of canada

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Bro, I got bad news for you, coming straight from Alberta...

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Win or lose we're buying guns.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Underground railroad for repressed minorities to escape.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I would be surprised if he wins. It really feels like his time has passed. But if he does I will use resistbot to its fullest capacity.

I don’t think there will be a presidency after him if he does though. I think people generally underestimate the violence it will bring.

Not to mention, they are very used to making poor decisions (see: invasions of Afghanistan & Iraq) and also not fighting back when their elections are stolen or interfered with. (See: Brooks Brother Riot and Trump election)

Good luck dummies!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Honestly I have no idea. I live in the midwest and I am rather poor, so I imagine I will just start hording canned food and glare at people through the curtains like usual

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hurry and buy a new graphics card before the prices go crazy again.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'm working to set up connections to folks in Canada that will be willing to relocate LGBTQ folks across the border.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just keep going about my daily life. The result of the election is not going to change where I live or where I work. The Federal Government doesn't have much of an impact on my day to day life, beyond federal laws and regulatory agencies. I don't see those changing in an (immediately) catastrophic way. Most of my day to day life is determined by my state and town government.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Maybe be able to finally afford a house with all these people planning to leave the country. Other then that hunker down and deal with shit as it comes like always.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I've been visiting English speaking countries and kind of scouting where might be a good option if America had a serious issue. Canada would be my first choice because of proximity and shared values. New Zealand #2, then probably UK or Ireland.

I'm a cybersecurity professional with a lot of experience and I hope that would be welcomed in most countries but idk. I don't want to move, and would stick around for a bit to see initially how things go but if it kicks right back to 2020's level of insanity I'm 100% out.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m gonna pack all my bags and change nothing about my life.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

We all understand he can in no way actually be allowed to retake that office again, correct? I don't give one flying fuck if he wins, or not. He cannot under any circumstances be allowed.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Live in denial while our country crumbles around us.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Well since I've been very vocally liberal and anti-Trump over the past 8 years or so, I suspect I'll end up dying in a labor camp.
I don't have the means to get out of the county beforehand or I'd already be out, and I think there's effectively no country that's going to be willing to take political refugees from the United States afterwords, so I'm pretty well fucked.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm praying for a convenient lightning bolt, or the human equivalent, to take him out. Honestly, a massive heart attack would do.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will legit try to find countries with constitutions and parliaments that I could relocate to to live and work. The American constitutional Republic will be over if Trump becomes President again.

He'll certainly start his retribution with the big fish of anti Trump people and organizations, but it won't take long for it to "trickle down" to everyday people as well.

I'm lucky enough that it's feasible for me to find work in my field outside the US. Others aren't so lucky.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

some of us are not allowed to vote so doing the same thing as the last election

hope people one day quit voting for one of the demopublicans and choose some third party

as an american dissident unable to vote it feels like trapped in a country that does not want us deciding things or having a voice of any kind just here to be a disposable warm body

yes it is like that rick and morty episode with the body theme park you know things are dying and rotting and falling apart around you but that is the extent of your powers unless someone on the outside intervenes

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Continue on as a wage slave hoping to get like a couple weeks vacation eventually.

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