With modifications making it not as good, to be clear.
curbstickle
joined 8 months ago
that will hurt poor people the most.
As is tradition.
Honestly, I'm going to try and leave.
The comment from Maven is, as you found, accurate.
The answer is all of it.
But the electoral college is dumb and pointless
And its also how a president is elected in the United States, or 2016 would have gone a bit differently.
have an extremely high demand job.
I'm banking on this actually. My specialties are, and my wife's is as well. So I'm reaching out to companies I know with a presence to see what my options are where I'd like to go, and decide from there. I doubt we will be the only ones though, so we'll see what that ends up looking like.
The only up side is I'm in a very niche specialty with broad experience, have contacts on both sides of the work I do.
I think I'm in a better position than most, and I still think its going to be an uphill battle.
Ah, yes, just like the completely legal Haitian immigrants.
Clearly, a well supported position from the republican party. Totally not the exact opposite of what came out of the pres elect and VP elect.
Reminded a bit of a certain anchorman gif right about now....
Yes, but that doesn't matter to republicans.
Oh alongside the loss of benefits they rely on (which I told them about), the pandemic potential with the worst Kennedy, even their friends which are of varying ethnicities and going to be targeted, the list is.... Long.
Anecdotally... About 75% of the right that I know/met.
The other 25% is a mix of racism, greed, and conspiracy theory.
Literally in a car with an immigrant right now who voted Trump because things were cheaper before covid.
FFS.
Honestly I think this speaks to the value of having user-level blocking of instances rather than defederation. Maybe one day that will be incorporated into Lemmy (or similar).