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[–] 164 points 1 year ago (20 children)

I would not fly to the US even if I got paid for it. I value my life and the US politics look like a serious threat to my wellbeing.

So, count me (German) into the group of „stay the hell away from the US“ people.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

    Don't worry. Americans will start coming to you when things start getting bad here. You're lucky though. You'll get the Americans who are able to travel by air.

    Mexico and Canada will get ones who can't fly because they believe airplanes are demons.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

    Oh they're already here. One American expat I know greatly enjoys our affordable healthcare, childcare, worker's rights, tenant's rights, 30 days of paid leave, customer protections, etc. etc.

    And she's a Trump supporter.

    Oh, and she thinks there are too many immigrants coming to Germany.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Perhaps she would like to help reduce the amount of immigrants by getting deported herself?

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I have no idea why it's so common, but a lot of immigrants seem to hate immigrants. My parents are one of them

    I seriously don't get it. You're the immigrant!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Same people who always pull the ladder up behind them.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Or they resent that they did it the "right way" and think other people are doing it the "wrong way", even if someone else is doing it fully legally.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Years ago I spoke to a Turk in Germany who said something similar about eastern europeans migrating to Germany. His argument against them migrating was that there are too many migrants in Germany already and he felt his livelihood was threatened because of it.

    It actually makes sense from a a job security perspective (he was a cab driver).

    I am experiencing a similar feeling in a different setting. We bought an old house in a tiny village. Me and my wife we both love nature and moved out of the city into a forgotten place. In the oast few years this place became popular and now more and more people are buying land and building houses here. I get why they do it, i did it too. Its beautiful here. But i just dont want them here. Soon this place will be another rowded popular mountain spot. I hate to think about it. I want it to remain calm.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Don't worry, the current German government is just as evil.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The current German government is bad. But it’s far from being as catastrophic as Trump‘s shit show.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's certainly more competent than Trumps, but it's just as evil, presuming you care about morality and not just the material comfort of white Germans

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    As a short term resident in Germany, this is demonstrably false and a straight up lie. It could always change, but immigrants (and citizens who are not white) aren't getting disappeared and killed in the streets like in the USA.

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