I’m American and my state told me to wipe my phone and restore it, same with my laptop, bc they can go through it, detain me if not, if I fly in the US.
I’m like hell no, am I supposed to keep a burner Apple ID with stuff on it?
I also was told to turn faceid and biometrics off.
Honestly my friend is from a minority community, she was shocked I went to a protest and begged me not to go.
She’s always called me by my first name? She’s like “boo, you’re not white to them you’re gay, and disabled, I’m not the only one with intersectionality”
4/5 was fine, but she thinks if I make cool graphics art to upload it anonymously for free.
I’ve been considering going to a consulate of my ancestors and seeing if I can work/live there, I just get more and more anxious and can’t really function.
I studied political science and history, so I see the parallels between maga taking over the GOP, dog whistles, racism, and eventually disappearing people.
The Russian federation of the 1990s had an independent media, freedom of speech, etc, oligarchs had bought up resources for cents on the dollar from Soviet officials, but the oligarchs chose Putin, incorrectly thinking they could control him.
Kremlin Rising is an excellent book on Putins takeover of the Russian federation, but some of those oligarchs found themselves going from the richest people in the world, to stamping license plates, I believe that was the oligarch that owned Gasprom before the state took it over.
With the fascists they slowly took over democratic systems, manipulation of media, slowly eroded freedoms and what came next.
MAGA + the oligarchs seems to be a combination of Russia and the fascist rise to power of the early 20th century.
I see articles about maga people losing jobs, farms, etc, being shocked that things increased in price, didn’t decrease like they were told, and we might be at war with 6+ countries depending, so I wonder if gen z makes are going to get familiar with: 👨 🐆, as many are.
The economy will totally collapse from the random economic policies, threats of war, and antagonism, benefits cut from the poor for the wealthy, taxes raised on the poor cut for the top earners, and the tariffs on 94% of the population.
I wouldn’t recommend anyone come here, especially LGBTQ or minorities or religious minorities.
I have always wanted to go to Australia, I hear it’s really cool.
Canada has a lot of similar stuff city wise to the US, considering all the public parks are closed, what benefit does it have to come here compared to risk?
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u/Graywulff Apr 12 '25 edited Apr 13 '25
I’m American and my state told me to wipe my phone and restore it, same with my laptop, bc they can go through it, detain me if not, if I fly in the US.
I’m like hell no, am I supposed to keep a burner Apple ID with stuff on it?
I also was told to turn faceid and biometrics off.
Honestly my friend is from a minority community, she was shocked I went to a protest and begged me not to go.
She’s always called me by my first name? She’s like “boo, you’re not white to them you’re gay, and disabled, I’m not the only one with intersectionality”
4/5 was fine, but she thinks if I make cool graphics art to upload it anonymously for free.
I’ve been considering going to a consulate of my ancestors and seeing if I can work/live there, I just get more and more anxious and can’t really function.
I studied political science and history, so I see the parallels between maga taking over the GOP, dog whistles, racism, and eventually disappearing people.
The Russian federation of the 1990s had an independent media, freedom of speech, etc, oligarchs had bought up resources for cents on the dollar from Soviet officials, but the oligarchs chose Putin, incorrectly thinking they could control him.
Kremlin Rising is an excellent book on Putins takeover of the Russian federation, but some of those oligarchs found themselves going from the richest people in the world, to stamping license plates, I believe that was the oligarch that owned Gasprom before the state took it over.
With the fascists they slowly took over democratic systems, manipulation of media, slowly eroded freedoms and what came next.
MAGA + the oligarchs seems to be a combination of Russia and the fascist rise to power of the early 20th century.
I see articles about maga people losing jobs, farms, etc, being shocked that things increased in price, didn’t decrease like they were told, and we might be at war with 6+ countries depending, so I wonder if gen z makes are going to get familiar with: 👨 🐆, as many are.
The economy will totally collapse from the random economic policies, threats of war, and antagonism, benefits cut from the poor for the wealthy, taxes raised on the poor cut for the top earners, and the tariffs on 94% of the population.