Canada

We're all aware that This Hour Has 22 Minutes is satire, yeah?

Lol dammit this got me.

Seriously though, can I come if I’m fleeing there with my trans parter? I’m legit scared of what this government will do, hopefully somewhere in BC will be safer than living under this government that seems to want us erased.

Sorry Canadian bros, I technically have citizenship though I’ve been down here my entire life, probably moving back and doing the spousal sponsorship thing.

Best part? This past year it was a huge deal and a big step for her - we finally waded through the mountain of red tape to get her markers and name on her drivers and passport updated to match her appearance. It was a big step in her being able to buy booze without being misgendered. The consequence it’s that any of the shady fucks they’ll install in the state department can probably run a search and find out where we fucking live. Fucking fantastic.

Honestly if anyone has advice for a tech worker trying to move, I’d really appreciate it.

If it makes you feel better, I bet you can guess how we’ll vote.

I'm fine with then coming here I just have to ask if they are fine leaving trump types in charge of one of the biggest global threats, at least smash something on the way out

I'm conflicted on whether Canadians should warmly receive any 'conscientious objectors' this time around ('last time around' meaning war objectors in the Vietnam era).

While I understand their desire to flee what they feel is a dangerous domestic situation.. it's not to the same point as the Vietnam War where citizens were being conscripted to fight in a foreign conflict; today, they voted, and they got a government they may not like, but as citizens aren't they supposed to then work to get it back they way they want?

If they're eligible for emigration and can obtain landed immigrant status, fine. But they may have to live with fixing their problem at home, and cannot rely on being able to just pul up stakes and 'ride it out' in another friendly nation. If they end up not liking it in Canada, are they just going to leave there too?

Their boots on the ground and votes at the balloting stations will be needed more than ever in their home country in 2 and 4 years, presuming they'll get a chance to vote again; which is something they need to stay and fight for! (Be that in the courts, the halls of Congress, or even in the streets, heaven forbid).

Buy a house? Best I could hope for (assuming I could even make it to the border without a car) would be if they'd let me get into the MAID program. A tester for cheap brain preservation, if I'm lucky.

This is not a joke, I find the pearl-clutching about euthanasia silly when the alternative is business-as-usual (particularly here in the US where social programs are fought against).

Americans realizing other countries also have border control:

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Canada is on the cusp of its own lurch to the right, I think those USAmericans are going to be disappointed.

How about y'all move to Mexico? They just elected a woman for President!

I, for one, am happy to receive any of our progressive neighbours to the south. We'll need all the help we can to not follow in the US's footsteps.