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[–] Elkot@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago

Aberdeen and Glasgow too tbh.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Emotional, fucking, damage.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Why would Americans feel emotional damage from this? They have freedom to be Christian, and self reliant, and proud.

[–] sharetload@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Come to Australia! If you’re on the west coast of America, it’s not even that ridiculous a journey. It’s quite like America in lots of good ways, and less so in the insane, gun-toting ways. (Lots of idiot-trucks still, though 😞)

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You guys are gutting funding, unfortunately.

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[–] F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is amazing for us in Europe, bring all the educated ones and leave the Trumpers there

Fully onboard with this, welcome to Spain amigo.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Pity they leave the nukes there, for a bunch of rabid capitalist morons

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[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

well to some of us americans, who can’t leave, this is horrible… but logical….
the last thing i want is all the reasonable people to leave, and be stuck with these fuxks….

i kinda wonder now, how much did people fleeing nazi germany contributed to them solidifying power?

[–] parrhesia@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's kinda funny, this is what Texas did to Oklahoma in regards to our teachers. Put up billboards saying that they paid more in Texas. It's depressing but it worked lol.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

oklahoma wasn’t great before that, but at least it was OK…

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[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago

The world is looking to China too, their sciences are blossoming. Exciting times ahead while Americans decide who they are and want to be and eventually go through their own Enlightenment. Things are bad now, but tyrants always fall eventually. I think we are entering a sort of golden age for science.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This feels sad on the surface, as an American who went to college 25 years ago and is used to seeing people from around the world move here to learn, teach, start businesses, etc.

But giving it any real thought, damn it, it is much better for humanity this way. Climate change isn’t going to pause while the world watches us collapse.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah brain drain isn't as cool when it happens here, is it?

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 1 day ago (4 children)

My daughter is about 2 years from graduating high school, and even before Trump came into office I was urging her to consider non-US colleges. Mostly because she wants to go into medicine and our healthcare system has been broken for much longer than I can remember. But also the rise of Fox News (and others) getting away with stating provable lies as fact, Joe Rogan, et al. showed that there has been an inflection point and the country is being led around by the dumbest of us.

She's fluent in Spanish, though jumping straight into a medical program would introduce a lot of new specialized words, and might be to much. We're starting to look into options though.

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

College introduces a lot of new words in general. It is what it's for, plus, she will be in pre-med. Go for the Spanish route. She will flourish. :) Spain is so lovely. I hope I can land something there next.

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[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Medical English is largely stripped-down Latin, I wonder how similar medical Spanish is

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[–] Bunbury@feddit.nl 30 points 1 day ago (5 children)

And as far as I’ve seen the numbers it’s working too. Anywhere in Europe that is academic or sciency is seeing record numbers of Americans applying. The brain drain will be real.

[–] edryd@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It has already been happening for several years now, it's just accelerated since Trump. Even before his first term there was a "negative brain drain" of educated workers no longer coming into the US because the benefits (paid time off, health care, etc) are so much worse compared to other countries, even when considering the higher pay. America used to rely on a steady stream of incoming highly educated workers.

But now there is a huge amount of well established academics leaving for Canada, EU, or anywhere else that will pay them. I work in a physics department at a large R1 university in a very liberal state, and we are losing 4 (that I know of) high regarded professors just this year alone moving to other countries.

The brain drain is here, and won't be reversing course even if Trump suddenly disappears. We would have to completely change how we reward work and our failing healthcare system for anything to change.

[–] Bunbury@feddit.nl 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Makes sense. This is doing decades of damage. Plenty of past groundbreaking research came out of the US. But I get it. I wouldn’t want to move to the US either for very much the same reasons. Lack of affordable healthcare, lack of paid holidays and gun safety would be the main reasons. Lack of food regulation would also be a concern. And now the current regime and the way too large chunk of the population that still seems happy with it means we put even tourist travel plans to the US on hold. Too scary at the moment. Trying to help the best I can from here, but there’s only so much you can do at a distance.

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[–] Ravi@feddit.org 81 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Come to Germany! We do everything like the US, but with a 4 year delay and 10% less intense! Relive your memories of when your homeland went down the drain!

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

I feel like the 4 year delay is gonna hit it's threshold and start surpassing the US. Maybe I'm wrong but I feel like Germany has the populous to shift very quickly. Now that the US is full Fascism I feel like Germany just got the acceleration card equipped. Which will also influence the rest of the west and Americans to hit the "kill all Muslims" button as hard as they can.

Starting with "Hamas/Palestine/Antisemitism" as the justification.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 day ago (11 children)

I still have the hope that people see the trainwreck the US is now and go "oh shit", and try to avoid it

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It low-key reads like one of those "lonely singles in your area" ads.

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 117 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Orange Diaper is burning my country’s goodwill to the ground and I’m so happy to see the rest of the world telling us to fuck off, and more importantly fucking with Americas wallet.

Consequences for bad behavior is the only way it ever gets corrected.

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[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is this why Elon is pushing for anti-immigration parties in the EU? He doesn't want people to leave?

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 2 days ago

Of course he doesn't want people to leave, how can he be king if all his serfs leave?

[–] hash@slrpnk.net 58 points 2 days ago (34 children)

Their schools were already orders of magnitude cheaper. Get ready for extreme brain drain!

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[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 68 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Living somewhere else is quite tempting in a grass is greener way, but it feels like moving out of my house because of pests. What I'd really rather do is eradicate the pests and get my home back. Even if I move, how long until I have to suffer new pests? Meanwhile the more sane of the two completely out of touch parties that comprise my government are like my housemate, and they keep leaving food wrappers and shit all over the place and they refuse to call an exterminator because it would be "cruel". But these no-kill traps ain't doing shit. Figuratively speaking, of course.

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[–] HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 88 points 2 days ago (7 children)

They look like they’re being told to smile or a family member will be killed.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 97 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I've spoken to some Fins and it's being that close to another human being causing that.

/S but only slightly

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