Your New Order Has Arrived(slrpnk.net)

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Jen Sorensen: Your New Order Has Arrived

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OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml

-30 points

6 days ago

Pay all the attention you want, it’s not like anyone was ever actually given the option out of this mess through the system.

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Flying Squid@lemmy.world

9 points

5 days ago

I’m out of this mess through the system. They didn’t do shit to stop me getting on a plane and flying across the ocean last Monday to a more civilized part of the world. It has its own problems, but at least people don’t get into things like massive healthcare debt.

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Krauerking@lemy.lol

5 points

4 days ago

Yeah that’s taking advantage of a privilege that practically zero other people have to flee to a safer distance from the problem. That isn’t helping clean up the mess and doesn’t entirely fully remove you from it.
It allows you to claim you aren’t involved because you stay uninvolved but it’s not the same as being helpful or even being offerable advice to anyone else other than a percentage so small it rounds down to zero.

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Flying Squid@lemmy.world

-2 points

4 days ago

I am saving my queer daughter’s life.

I suppose you would rather me stick around and have her marched into a camp?

Do you have any kids? Would you sacrifice children for your cause?

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Krauerking@lemy.lol

6 points

4 days ago

I didn’t say that. I was pointing out the privilege of your statement when you offer that as a solution to this issue.

You can use the idea that anyone pointing it out is some villain who would have your family hurt but that’s not reality. It’s just an emotional response to protect your mindset. That’s fine. Don’t treat me poorly because of it though. You already got more privileges than the queer people left behind who may be in what you fantasize and have nightmares of.

It’s not a sacrifice if we can’t leave. It’s just reality. Something you have a privilege to alter to ignore.

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Flying Squid@lemmy.world

-2 points

4 days ago

This is what you said:

It allows you to claim you aren’t involved because you stay uninvolved but it’s not the same as being helpful or even being offerable advice to anyone else other than a percentage so small it rounds down to zero.

As if that was why I left.

I never even claimed I wasn’t involved, so it’s just a lie anyway. For one thing, my wife is still in the U.S. and, since she’s a librarian, she’s facing the possibility of prison. Meanwhile, my meager savings are running out and I don’t have a job.

So maybe I don’t have this amazing privilege like you seem to think.

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Krauerking@lemy.lol

3 points

4 days ago

You have said that you are out the mess through the system, not entirely true, but through a privilege of the system. I have seen your other comments around telling people that there is no more action that can be taken and that this was the only choice but for most people the ONLY choice IS to stay.
Just because it’s not working out for you doesn’t mean it wasn’t a privilege. The amount of people that could walk that path that you are taking is again very small.

I’m sorry that it’s not working out like you hoped but going around telling people the only way out is apathetic leaving to another country and then to now feel bad for you for. I can only offer my general empathy for dealing with struggles but I have no other for you. Not while you still seem to admonish everyone else without the same privilege you don’t recognize.

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SoftTeeth@lemmy.world

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6 days ago

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