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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Don’t be fooled a strong Federal government normally means that Provincial one will be fucking awful. Love to all my gays, lesbians and all in between.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

Y'all don't seem to be openly planning actual fucking concentration camps, gathering lists of undesirables, or deporting people to places that do (although i think the Safe Third Country policy might count as that eventually) and bragging about the cruelty of it, so it still seems like an improvement over the current direction of the US.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That’s only usually the case in Ontario.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

And Alberta. Complete traitor clown running the show

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

At a certain point we could blame the leadership. Or at least tell people it's "safe". A lot of caveats though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but they’re rarely anything else then conservative

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Unfortunately this one's particularly incompetent and destructive

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

i'm front massachusetts and would love to either go to montreal, bc, or nfl/pei - the goal would be owning a small indie queer bookstore in montreal but i'm also in school to be a teacher <3

well i ultimately want to go to ireland, norway, scotland/shetland (before the uk government became so shit) or denmark since for me it's about the complete culture change to be someone completely different than my pretransition self but i also have two cats and am deathly afraid of flighting and travel so canada is easier :3

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

That's a goal for me :/ i have given up any hope of things getting better here. I no longer believe i can be happy and live in this country. I do not feel safe in any capacity; my own health (mental or physical) can be weaponised against me by my own government, i do not have any trust that medical records will remain confidential.

I don't have any expectation of retirement or home ownership, but if i can get somewhere i can live as myself, have a reasonable life, and not be afraid of my own government, i would be happy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Don't count your chickens just yet. That recent ruling by the UK supreme court came under the UK's so called "centre-left" party's watch. Along with their prime minister shamelessly agreeing with it.

These people (politicians) are not to be fucking trusted until they've proven they can be trusted. If left / progressive / liberal governments around the world were actually effective at doing anything other than sitting with their thumbs up their asses and collecting bloated paychecks (and bribes / donations), we wouldn't be seeing this rise of the right wing in the first place.

I would suggest waiting just a little longer to see if these people are actually legit or if they're planning on 'fighting' the right wing by doing exactly what the right wing wants.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 21 hours ago

I disagree, as an American, if you are Trans and in America, get out. Canada is better, regardless of how things might shake out down the road, the Canadian road looks a lot brighter today than America's.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Hope everyone find happiness where they can. Knew someone at work that was miserable aura and grouch. Moved elsewhere and it was 180. Like no idea a human could change so much with the location and it was not even a gorgeous location.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago

People say location doesn't matter but it actually does. I'm so happy for your coworker!

[–] [email protected] 75 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

I know this is a meme but if I were trans, and living in the US, I would 100% do my best to GTFO.

I was legit thinking a few days ago, we (Australia) should invite progressive voting Americans to migrate to Australia and ship our Trumpets over there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately for a lot of us, we can’t even afford passports right now. We just have to stick it out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeeeeup. Even if I could, Canada wouldn't take me since I'm poor, disabled, chronically ill, and unable to work (aka: won't make them money.) They don't want me; (nobody does, ha!) this applies to a lot of us.

I wish you all the best dealing with everything. I hope you're at least in a more decent-ish state/local area. Much love to you. 💖💖💖

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Been working on it for the past 6 months. Part of the process for applying for Permanent Residence is a background check by the FBI though, and they're really dragging their feet on mine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Did you submit via mail or at a US post office with digital submission? Post office is much faster. Maybe you filed a dispute? Wishing you luck!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

From my superficial research going there on work/study visa seems easier. Then you can decide whether to return or not later based on how things go. What do you think is the benefit of applying for permanent residency from the beginning? That seems a bit risky for me without knowing the culture and other aspects of living there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure if you're talking about Australia or Canada but while it's easy enough to get a study visa for Australia the cost of studying here would preclude that option for most people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Talking about Australia.

Yeah, I was surprised with how much the education cost was, but it seems to high mostly for foreigners so that's understandable. But it's still cheaper than US tuition cost.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Yeah it's subsidised for residents.

I think bachelor units are like $2,000 AUD each which is about 1.5 weeks full time average wage. 24 units in a bachelor.

Closer to $10k each for foreigners.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

My partner migrated to Australia.

There are multiple steps and the obscene waits at each step were awful.

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

Isn't Australia basically owned by the US with the amount of military bases and deals the government has there? According to boyboy and thejuicemedia etc anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That's not really my take.

Economically we're much more dependent on our exports to China. Any hickup in that relationship hurts. We also export heaps of grain, livestock, and gas to a variety of destinations.

IDK what we export to the US, other than some beef and bauxite, but it's not much in the grand scheme. We were hit with the 10% Tariffs and our politicians were a bit "meh" about it. We didn't bother with retaliatory tariffs.

Politically we have had a close relationship with the US. Obviously their military assets are huge compared to ours. The US military bases in Australia aren't here for our protection, they're here because the US want's a place from which to project power in our region.

There's a trilateral security treaty called AUKUS between Australia, UK, and US. That's not all one way either - all three nations are making significant contributions for everyone's benefit. There's been some reporting on whether Trump will withdraw from this treaty - it would be disappointing but not a disaster. We're a pretty enough dance partner.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Thanks for explaining, we greatly appreciate it!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

Just waiting for my passport to come in.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

These are the kinds of trade agreements we need to be discussing! As an American I kinda have a thing for the Australian accent anyway so I'm down lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

The American accent does extremely well in Australia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I'm ... not quite sure about that.

I listen to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks and I find it difficult to get engaged with those from American presenters or narrators. I'm certainly not alone in that either.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Oh reallllllyyyyy (Furiously Google Australia immigration requirements)

I think I get negative points for the Long Island NY accent though.

Or as we say it, lungilnd! Lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

It's cute, but nothing beats a Minnesota accent for me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

For me even moving to the US would be an improvement ._.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure how much longer that'll be the case. People are getting sent to deathcamps already, and we're barely 3 months in

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

...

I wish everyone who's still in the states all the luck. No matter what, y'all will outlive the presidency.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 14 hours ago

No matter what, y'all will outlive the presidency.

That's not a promise that anyone can make right now.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Some of us literally won't sadly. There are no guarantees, as the danger is quite real. We need to make sure as many make it as possible, but people are already suffering and being pushed to the brink. People will be deported or simply iced before long

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Nah. Is it really bad in Hungary for queers? Genuine question.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, they just banned pride among other things :(

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago

I ask Eastern Europe to stop being so deeply homophobic!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago

Fucking morons...