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"Leftist" (larping) contacts are waxing verbosely about how to flee the US. To quote one:
For the most part, they don't understand how immigration works, imagining they can just go to relatives in e.g. Norway (surely, only the US has immigration laws!) They all believe they're next, that the Reichstag fire will occur, that their occasional meming or anti-Israel comments will get them sent to a Salvadoran concentration camp.
No one has the least idea of e.g. debanking, let alone how to cope with it. Their networking all happens through FB or at best ... gmail. I was kicked from the conversation for mentioning such matters (why crypto, https://odysee.com/ etc. exist etc.) and the performativeness of their whole program. They don't realize that... They have been on the (deep) state's side the whole time, while nominally opposing it? Baffling!
Anyway, https://landchad.net/ is lovely. Everyone should cyberhomestead.
What do we do now (that we "won")? What interesting projects do we have to move forward?Edit: Our community's migration here went into full swing when Reddit admins removed a common of mine about quotation marks. It turns out, I don't understand quotation marks either - my load bearing quotation marks get misunderstood. This is of course my fault; I must write better. But I have not the slightest clue how that could be construed as "consensus building". As I can't magically write better, I will write more words to clarify the final question(s):
The previous system is collapsing, how do users of this forum plan to insulate themselves from the shocks and take advantages of the opportunities going forward? I shared tidings from frenemies of the old regime, who never fully captured (or wielded) it to their liking. I am curious how to e.g. influence things as a fellow traveler and not be hit by blowback, how to protect and continue to amass wealth amid dedollarization and inflation etc. New world, now what?
What has always gotten to me is the fact that (apart from their political opinions) they’d be fine even if Trump does every terrible thing they think he’s going to do. They’re white, natural born citizens, pay taxes, and do work that’s useful to the economy. The Nazis would not go after them (with the obvious exception), nor would Putin, Orbán, Duerte, or any other dictators. They’re the kind that such regimes want — educated, good jobs, pay taxes, not criminals, etc. and most of them lack the spine to seriously put themselves out there as against the regime when it stops being a fun LARP. When things get bad, they’ll shut up, scrub their socials, and for their “mental health” stop following the scary news, let alone do anything. Those that intend to fight are doing it stupidly with zero thought to opsec or grey man that it’s would be relatively easy to comb through socials and pick them up before doing anything serious.
I hate to go all Niemoeller on you, but this is not certain.
I mean, yes, if you decide to greet with "Heil Hitler", do not voice any contrarian political beliefs, don't engage in any norm-violating behavior (such as having gay sex, or having a Jewish boyfriend, or having a hereditary illness, pissing off the local Nazi bigwig), don't get killed either in Stalingrad or by an Allied bomb, then you are probably fine (where fine means getting to live through the 3. Reich with your limbs intact, not that you will thrive or still own what you owned before).
The main thing about Trump is that he is not literally Hitler -- there are many more checks and balances in place in the US. But living under Hitler is totally a big deal.
I mean the reason they ever went after Niemoller is that he was outspoken about his opposition to Naziism. There were millions of Germans doing normal German things throughout the 10 years of Nazi rule. Some of them might well have quietly and privately disagreed behind closed doors. The Nazis did not round up absolutely everyone who wasn’t a Nazi. They were after active dissidents, degenerates as they defined them, race mixers, etc. but it wasn’t true that any time someone said something anti-Hitler that the Gestapo would rise up through the floor and ship them off to Buchenwald. Active, ongoing dissent might get you marked. But if you keep your head down and mostly behave, your fate will be to ride out tge war and suffer only the fate of living in a country that th3 allies bombed the crap out of — which everyone suffered.
And that’s why I find the “fleeing white liberal women” so hilarious. First, as I mentioned in previous comments, they absolutely are not afraid of Trump or a fascist state. If they were, they’d certainly be careful about what they’re saying, about telling social media that they were at a protest, tagging themselves and their buddies in photos at tge protest. They’re also, other than being stupid online (again working from the belief that Trump is going to mass deport people to El Salvador, declare martial law, and cancel their social security number making life impossible) completely ineffective. It’s just insane how LARPy and performative the thing is.
As far as leaving the country, again, these spoiled little white future wine moms are not someone that any regime would worry about. Once they realize that it’s getting serious, they’re going to stop. And really, as long as they aren’t actively fighting the regime, there’s no danger. Trump doesn’t like immigrants or LGBT. He’s fine with white women.
Does Trump "dislike" LGBT? One of my pet peeves is the usage of that term, which I find to be baldly political and rather deceptive in its lumping of so many groups together. Just another subtle linguistic way of saying "straight" or heterosexual behavior somehow puts one in a political camp that isn't "LGBT."
But Trump doesn't seem to have any particular problem with homosexuals, either gay or lesbian, nor have I seen or heard him say anything about bisexuals. Arguably he disapproves of the progressive push of transsexuals in sports, but has he made any statements that he "dislikes" the T?
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