Why would they prefer Europe to Canada?
I don’t think that’s a good idea, you really don’t want Americans in your backyard.
A big problem with many people moving out is that they will be missing as opposition and reason. To a degree, it reduces the chances of the US to reform itself.
I would not see it so strictly.
Academics for the most part contribute “thought”. They are much better at doing so living in freedom outside the US than rotting in a prison cell inside the US, or in one of the crowny countries doing the dirty work for the US.
They are missing in doing the ground work of course. On the other hand they stop contributing to the system with their work, their taxes, their presence giving legitimacy… So it makes the system unstable faster and result in it falling apart, leaving space for something new, faster.
In authoritarian regimes it is very rare that they reform themselves. Usually they collapse, mostly in an ugly way. In the case of the US i don’t think that there is currently any hope to be set into reform from inside the system. For every crazed Republican in power we see a Democrat in power who wants to maintain the system, maintain the systemic issues that lead to Trump not once but twice and last but not least is enjoying many of the oppressive and racist policies that were implemented by Trump during his first term. Looking at mass deportations, “the wall”, violent crackdowns on peaceful protestors, or looking a bit longer running the continued operation of Guantanamo Bay, continuing the illegal occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq…
So in the case of the US there isn’t just the extreme-right, there is also the complicit “center” that opposes changing the system and is in part happy with the further pushes to the extreme-right. This complicit block won’t change their attitude and they wont stop keeping progressives in check for the regime until they are personally suffering. It is the Bidens and Harrises the Schumers and Fettermans that prevented a proper response and structural change after Trumps first term and now embrace cooperation with Trump and enjoying that he does some dirty work for them, like continuing the genocide in Palestine.
By staying in the US academics, some of whom have been beaten up by Cops during peaceful protests under the Democrats administration, the academics would give the very same people legitimacy as an “opposition” to the Republican administration that were complicit in bringing this administration into power and are complicit in keeping it in power.
I don’t really feel any attachment to a geographical position.
That would require to create a lot of new jobs for scientists coming from there. Otherwise it would just increase competition for unattractive jobs and lead more people to quit science (which I did).
And speaking of MINT professionals, we have a lot of stupid processes and bad working conditions here. Yes, for example in German industrial engineering, a lot of experienced software developers are sought for - but honestly, most managers do not have an idea what a requirement specification or an API really is. If you don’t believe me, ask for the API docs of the thing you should work on in their interview.
Ok but will they take useless dumbasses like me who hate trump?
If I learned anything playing 4X games then it is that more pops equals more good
If you enlist instead of us, why not?
Europe hates migrants. Get real.
What’s the basis of that assertion?
Frontex
The fact that the EU manages its borders just like every other country/union in the world is proof that Europe hates migrants?
The fact that the EU manages its borders just like every other country/union in the world is proof that Europe hates migrants?
Yes, actually.
The color of the skin.
all of recorded history
Trump is trying to turn the US into the 80s China. Repression included. China has come a long way since then.
I’m sure trying to take in americans (many of whom will not look like northern europeans) while having an extreme anti-immigration policy (e.g. in Germany) will go over well with no friction.
Just that we don’t want more of them here. The housing crisis doesn’t allow to integrate them and they are not the first group of people being refugees trying to escape to europe, we can’t absorb all of you wanting to escape.
