Current day America has proven beyond a doubt, humanity is the only animal that wouldn't jump out of a slowly boiling pot of water.
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Isn't it for all animals. If you keep slowly increasing temperature their body temperature will more easily come to equilibrium with outside temperature than it will if you just put them to hot boiling pot?
Yes but you have to lobotomize the frogs first.
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Billionaires are keeping us in the pot, using levers of power that we don't access from the pot.
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People from all over the world are trying to get into this boiling pot. Despite America's flaws, very few places are better alternatives when you look at economic opportunity and political rights. It is popular to trash on America now because who is president for the next four years but there's also only so many things he can do with an executive order and Congress isn't a fast moving engine.
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Called my mom last night, told her to renew her passport asap.
Most people are like “the waters warm, this is nice, what are you going on about???” And I’m like “hi yes this water is scalding hot and about to boil we need to get out!”
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People from all over the world are trying to get into this boiling pot. Despite America's flaws, very few places are better alternatives when you look at economic opportunity and political rights. It is popular to trash on America now because who is president for the next four years but there's also only so many things he can do with an executive order and Congress isn't a fast moving engine.
You’re out to lunch, musk is couping the government and breaking it on purpose.
The technofascists want their fiefdoms and they’re trying to kill most of us so they can rule the rubble. Curtis yarvin, look him up.
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This would imply that they're not surrounded by other pots filled with water which is (varying degrees of) boiling. We don't really have a Socialist Utopia meeting spot, let's say.
Beyond that, eloping requires a not insignificant amount of money (as a Romanian, I can say that homes/apartments aren't cheap here, either, and we're not exactly L.A.)
And at the other end of the line, immigration's not exactly thought of with fondness, even in Europe. Don't forget, we're stewing in our own pot even if the heat's still relatively tolerable.
This is a problem I'm having now with my boyfriend. I want to get out of the US and he says, "Where? Everywhere's falling to fascism right now. And it's hard and expensive to emigrate." It doesn't help that he also thinks it's not worth it to think about leaving until the water's actually boiling and he has verified it.
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Inside the pot: slowly boiling water
Outside the pot: raging inferno that is heating the pot
When given the option to slowly boil, or jump into a raging inferno, I think most people would think twice about jumping out of the pot.
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Don't forget the millions of us chained to the bottom because we have no choice
Oh hello my friend, you fully drowned yet? I'm getting there.
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jordan peterson has some knowledge about lobsters he'd like to share with you.
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People from all over the world are trying to get into this boiling pot. Despite America's flaws, very few places are better alternatives when you look at economic opportunity and political rights. It is popular to trash on America now because who is president for the next four years but there's also only so many things he can do with an executive order and Congress isn't a fast moving engine.
I hope America will have democratic elections in four years. But I won't be surprised if it doesn't happen.
Trump is a fascist, has both chambers and the supreme Court behind him. At best, it's going to be a very dark four years for minorities, women and poor people.
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Called my mom last night, told her to renew her passport asap.
Most people are like “the waters warm, this is nice, what are you going on about???” And I’m like “hi yes this water is scalding hot and about to boil we need to get out!”
Renewed mine online in October. Received in 12 days.
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Oh hello my friend, you fully drowned yet? I'm getting there.
Having no choice people think we can just jump ship (or I guess the pot) when they don't realize the people who can't do it at all because there chained to it
For instance trans people can't get passports or renew them meaning they have absolutely no way to leave.
We need to stay and help the disenfranchised instead of jumping ship
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Inside the pot: slowly boiling water
Outside the pot: raging inferno that is heating the pot
When given the option to slowly boil, or jump into a raging inferno, I think most people would think twice about jumping out of the pot.
Pot boiling and the raging inferno are both in America. Go and explore, the world is more peaceful then you think
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Having no choice people think we can just jump ship (or I guess the pot) when they don't realize the people who can't do it at all because there chained to it
For instance trans people can't get passports or renew them meaning they have absolutely no way to leave.
We need to stay and help the disenfranchised instead of jumping ship
How so?
Geniunely don't understand how being trans prevents you from getting out?
I'd assume when being asked about your sex, I'd just swallow the pride (no pun intended) and say what the sex at birth was to get the paperwork done. As soon as ones out it won't matter as much anyway. -
No, it's a fallacy. What is true is called "creeping normality", and it's absolutely what humans do to large scale and/or slow changes.
If it's not another name for it, it's definitely very close to the Overton Window.
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People from all over the world are trying to get into this boiling pot. Despite America's flaws, very few places are better alternatives when you look at economic opportunity and political rights. It is popular to trash on America now because who is president for the next four years but there's also only so many things he can do with an executive order and Congress isn't a fast moving engine.
Huffing a bit much on copium n.americanium?
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People from all over the world are trying to get into this boiling pot. Despite America's flaws, very few places are better alternatives when you look at economic opportunity and political rights. It is popular to trash on America now because who is president for the next four years but there's also only so many things he can do with an executive order and Congress isn't a fast moving engine.
Drank the Koolade huh?
The US has been looked-down upon by the world for a long, long time. Now we're just starting to feel bad for you.
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How so?
Geniunely don't understand how being trans prevents you from getting out?
I'd assume when being asked about your sex, I'd just swallow the pride (no pun intended) and say what the sex at birth was to get the paperwork done. As soon as ones out it won't matter as much anyway. -
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Its such a shit situation. If you want out, you generally need to get a job in another country. A job in a different country generally pays significantly less than the cost of living in most of the USA, so you need to already have a significant amount of money already saved to even consider it an option.
Most of us are just fucking trapped.
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Exactly this thank you
