• @[email protected]
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    51 hour ago

    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!”

    • @Today
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      Renewed mine online in October. Received in 12 days.

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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.

  • @apfelwoiSchoppen
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    Billionaires are keeping us in the pot, using levers of power that we don’t access from the pot.

      • @[email protected]
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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

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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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      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 hour ago

      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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    As an American who just emigrated, I guess I jumped. I can still vote from overseas, but I’m pessimistic about the future.

    • Bonje
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      Where to, if you don’t mind

  • slazer2au
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    Yea…

    Post UK Brexit was when I thought the same thing.

  • @latenightnoir
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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.

    • @Goodmorningsunshine
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      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.

  • @[email protected]
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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?

    • Rhaedas
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      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.

  • @fallowseed
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    jordan peterson has some knowledge about lobsters he’d like to share with you.

  • Diplomjodler
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    That’s what the woke mob would have you believe! The water isn’t getting warmer at all! Believe me!

  • @[email protected]
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    46 hours ago

    Water? Preposterous!

    A giant pot of delicious soon-to-be stew, however… mighty tempting, doc! You’ll have to treat me right though, you wouldn’t want to get food poisoning from stringy meat would ya?