I know this is in jest, but it’s definitely something the shitheads would push. And my answer goes thusly:

No. The Economy hasn’t done a damn thing for me, and it’s done less for my wife. I’m treading water, unable to afford a house or a car on what was once an unfathomable sum of money when I was younger. It has done less for my wife, who relies on my job to keep a roof over her head. You want us to have kids? Reassure us that our kids will have a better life, and stop vampire-squidding us and sucking down every loose dollar.

100% gamer chick too. I’m lucky to have her, and even as we check out girls together, I just look, because I know I have a good girl at home. :)

Thanks for these. They don’t make it clear that Canada is a valid destination for LGBTQ+ folks to seek asylum from, but they do indicate that there is discussion in Canada. Have to see how the referenced cases go, though.

There’s this possible ending in Cyberpunk 2077 that I think speaks to how Billionaires view the world. The leader of the Japanese megacorp Arasaka is arguably the most powerful man in Japan, more-so than even the Japanese emperor. His company’s security forces includes an aircraft carrier, not to mention endless drones and faceless goons equipped with … if not the best technology on the planet, then the second best. And they’ve unlocked the technology of digitising a person’s consciousness and storing it.

The CEO’s son is a bit of a rebel, trying to undermine his father. He eventually gets very hands-on (integral part of the plot that your character witnesses first-hand early in the game) and bumps his father off and takes over Arasaka. And if you play the game a certain way, you reach an ending where the daughter of the CEO assists her dead father in … coopting the son’s body, displacing his consciousness, and ‘reincarnating’ in the son’s body, to continue his centuries of ownership of Arasaka.

This is fiction, but Cyberpunk is all about assuming the worst of our corporate overlords. I don’t think it’s an overreach.

My wife and I made the same decision. We joke that Octomom had our kids.

8 billion people call Earth home. As another commentor has said, we probably should have half that. Your choice and our choice not to have kids enables that, even if only stupid people reproduce. With how the world is turning out right now, I think we both made the right choice.

Just like the 1930s. By the time countries will open their doors to the oppressed in the USA, we’ll be rolling our own ovens here.

My google-fu hasn’t up to this point. In fact, I get lots of results saying that Americans are not welcome as asylum seekers in my googling. Your single link only shows places that take American immigrants, not places welcoming American refugees. In fact, New Zealand is suffering from a Conservative-inflicted recession that is making things difficult for immigrants and natives alike, and Australia has some serious restrictions on immigrants (a close friend of mine did that route and barely made the cut). And Canada? Despite a victory for the Liberal Party and ‘elbows up’ regarding American rhetoric, they still have lots of people angry about how immigration has been handled.

If you actually have links to help get victimised people out of the USA, maybe instead of ‘why don’t u google it urself’, maybe post those links. That’s FAR more helpful than the whole ‘go do it urself!’ response. :)

Or do something they don’t agree with. Like marrying a Black bisexual pagan woman.

Links, please? I haven’t seen anything suggesting that, yet.

I’m probably OK. I’m straight. I’m White. Though I am agnostic and don’t buy the State Religion behind Project 2025.

My wife, however, is Black, Bisexual, and Pagan, four strikes, and now I’m a race traitor for having married her, so there’s my strike.

My message to Garcia?

Yes. Yes you did, you stupid cow. This is exactly what you voted for, Garcia. Lock, stock, and barrel. You are a fucking moron and now, only as the leopard eats YOUR face, do you realise how stupid you were.

You voted for this. 100%. Now fuck off and take it while we try to reverse the slide into authoritarianism you voted for. Maybe next time you won’t be so fucking stupid!

Stupid is as stupid does.

So…how close are we to that point where other countries open their doors to us under asylum laws? I mean, Trump’s siccing the military on people and it’s not even 6 months into his term yet.

Indeed. I stand by my original comments saying that this is a huge distraction. partial_accumen is here to proclaim loudly to the world that I’m TALKING TOO MUCH ABOUT HOW TRUMP IS PULLING A FAST ONE, and meanwhile, what’s Trump doing? Nationalising the National Guard to implement martial law in blue cities that don’t appreciate his bullshit.

Like I said. The Musk bullshit was entertainment, designed to distract us from what’s really going on – the imposition of Project 2025. The eradication of our civil liberties. Sending the military against those of us that dare stand up to Hair Fuehrer. The establishment of a right-wing dictatorship. Thread after thread after thread is coverage of the Trump-Musk bullshit distraction event. And rather than make that the central part of his complaint, ol’ partial_accumen decides the better idea is to get me to shut up about the distractification going on here. Seriously, that’s the thing he’s worried about?

And no one is stopping you from moving on to other comments you agree with, but here we are.

What happens to the data Musk took? I guarantee you it’s already being sliced and diced by the powers that be that have put on this show for us. Before you get your hope up that things are gonna change, I want to give you a quote from Macbeth for you to remember.

“It is a tale told by an idiot. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

We’re just being kept ‘entertained’ so they can get on with the business of robbing us blind and making us fight each other.

Yep. Don’t lose sight of the ball. They’re trying to pull a fast one on us.

And that’s what they want you to think. They want you to underestimate them and focus on the public shitshow, while they quietly implement Project 2025 while you’re distracted by the slapfest they’re putting on for you in public.

As I said above. They’re a bunch of conniving bastards, and until I start seeing real things like Elon explaining exactly how Clark County in Nevada was stolen from the Left, or Trump actually cancel SpaceX contracts, or Musk abducted by ICE agents and sent to El Salvadore, I’m going to continue thinking this is all a WWE plot designed to distract us from the shitshow going on behind the scenes.

Trump is a world-class actor who has stayed entirely in character for years. I could see the other two playing their parts at Trump and his merry band of miscreants’ direction. Remember. They need us to forget about gutting Medicaid (and Medicare), the billionaire tax cuts, the raiding of the public space for loose money so they can fund those tax cuts, and the imposition of a right-wing religious autocracy on us. Don’t lose track of that as you enjoy the entertainment this show gives you. That’s all I’m saying.

PS: I do agree that they’re thin-skinned, emotionally stunted man-children, but they’re also conniving bastards, and they want you focused on the drama…

Indeed. Trump IS an Entertainer and has been in the showbiz industry for quite some time, so it wouldn’t surprise me that this is all just a show and we’re being taken for a ride. But he is also an egotistical prick so this might actually be for real. I’m just not going to hold my breath or let myself be distracted by this side-show from the shit the Shitgibbon and his merry band of miscreants are pulling out.

Heh, I wouldn’t be interesting to talk to Musk either…or Trump for that matter, so I totally understand!

But until the fur flies and secrets drop, it’s all just a game of fakeout to me.

An easy and non-impactful thing for Trump to do, and it’s not like Trump’s followers would ever get a “Tesler”. Those are filthy EVs and manly men only ever get gas-guzzling Big Trucks ™.