• Really? People have been talking about it since the Bush administration. Until now things hadn’t gotten bad enough for people to actually do it in large numbers, but people saying that if the Republicans win they’d move to Canada has been repeated so often over the decades that it became a bit of a joke.

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      021 days ago

      Trump 2.0 is WAY worse than any Bush.

      • @tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        021 days ago

        Without the crucial steps the W Bush admin took, there would be no Trump. It’s not that Trump isn’t worse but they are part of the same fascist movement, just further developed.

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          021 days ago

          We are talking people fleeing the USA for their lives. This is Trump phenomena as he is demonizing and literally going after dissenters.

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            020 days ago

            Bush Jr. started doing that. I recall seeing protestors who opposed the Iraq invasion being arrested for dissent. Remember Dixie Chicks? Yeah, they got cancelled for that. And, lets also not forget about the random violence against anyone remotely kinda like an Arab, to include Punjabis, Liberians, Somalians, Burmese, etc.

            I feel like waaaay too many people forgot about post 9-11 shit.

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          021 days ago

          Agree - if people were thinking it before, now they are DOING.

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        020 days ago

        Remember when we thought Bush was bad? God I’d love to have him instead