• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    4 hours ago

    I’ve been saying it since 2016: the EU should start granting political asylum to people from the US.

    edit: I did say political

    • GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Nope don’t do it. U will get MAGA. Be super careful vetting anything that loves trump and musk. I myself planning on retiring early. 45 yo software engineer. I will end up in SEA in next 4 years. Getting ready to sell all my investment property here. America is not going to last for too long.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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        4 hours ago

        We’re already getting MAGA, thanks to the internet. It’s called far-right populism. Many of their takes are taken over from the X crazies 1:1. Sometimes they don’t even fit our situation. No matter. Flooding the zone is all that counts.

        • GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world
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          3 hours ago

          U guys need to shut down Twitter and Facebook asap. Literally block it completely. Only way and only last chance. It’s like rabies

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I think we don’t want open entrance policies in place that would make it easier for MAGAs to come over. Best to have some kind of requirement which filters out the MAGAs as much as possible, say minimum education level to get a work or digital nomad visa or only people from “at risk groups” such as Transexuals qualifying for asylum.

      Were I am now, Portugal, there’s pretty open immigration policy for Brazil with no actual minimum requirements and the result is that we imported a ton of far right muppets from there, to the point that in the last Brazilian Presidential election the proportion of voters for Bolsonaro in Portugal (as Brasilians can vote from abroad) was a lot larger than in Brasil - since Brasilians resident in Portugal can get Portuguese nationality after 5 years, this also help fuel the rise of the Far Right locally.

      Having some kind of reasonably easy and fair system to filter out the Fascist assholes would be much better.

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      23 hours ago

      I moved from the U.S. to Germany in 2020.

      My running joke since was wondering whether I’d be eligible for citizenship or asylum first….

      Almost over the finish line for being eligible for citizenship, but I feel like asylum isn’t that far off.

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        22 hours ago

        You don’t need asylum if you are a legal resident. Asylum is the most insecure form of permit, especially in Germany, where the society is currently getting more and more hostile to migration, including labeling countries like Afghanistan as “safe countries of origin” and organizing deportations with the Taliban.

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      23 hours ago

      There are already a handful of good digital nomad (and other) visa options that are really tempting.

      I haven’t done a TON of research here, just watched a lot of youtube videos discussing the process, daydreaming of placing some distance between myself and Trump. There are a handful of countries across Europe I’d jump at the chance to move to if there were reasonable odds to get permanent residence or citizenship.

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      omg then the EU as we know it wont exist for long if such policies were to be implemented.