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I'm looking over my options in fleeing for safety as things get worse down here. I am considering joining friends in Oregon but that might not safe enough. I'm gay, atheist, have a college degree (not in anything useful, however), and am everything the nazi's down here hate.

I need to get out.

I know you guys are justifiably pissed at us Americans right now, but if I were to try and move to Canada (and I have no idea how I could possibly do such a thing in time) would I be welcomed there? Would I be safe? Or would I be seen as an aggressor or threat of some sort?

I need to get out of here but if it means going somewhere everyone will hate me I might not be any better off.

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[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 3 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Run away from your problems and dont bother try anything to fix it, the problems won't surely follow you anywhere.

[–] muusemuuse@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There isn't a non-violent solution to fascism. I am one unarmed man in Ohio. I can't do anything about the nazis. I voted against them. I've signed petitions. I've done all the things a functioning society has available but they don't work when your opponent isn't playing the same game by the same rules. Unless these guys start dropping like flies things wont change. This thing has its own momentum now. I don't have the ability to change that.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Canada's far right party simply needs to convince the equivalent of a couple small towns in quantity of votes to get into power, FYI. That's how close they are to gaining momentum from their current level of national support.

[–] pleasegoaway@lemm.ee 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Please go away.

Plenty of Jews and minorities fled nazi germany, and as a result have families alive today.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 3 points 5 days ago

Fair point. I will slink away back to my sewage pit, apologies.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The USA is going down a route similar to Germany in the 1930s. Would it be appropriate to preach what you just said to Jews and LGBTQ+ people trying to leave Nazi Germany?

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 2 points 5 days ago

No you are correct, vulnerable people need to flee to allow violent people to handle their business.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My great-great grandparents fled Europe during WW1 when they were teens.

Did they run away too?

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 1 points 5 days ago

I'm very happy they fled and stayed alive to help create you, because you're an amazing person, but I'm sorry the word "fled" literally means to run away. So yes, they did.