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Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in. The Trump administration has hailed the exodus—negative net migration—as the fulfillment of its promise to ramp up deportations and restrict new visas. Beneath the stormy optics of that immigration crackdown, however, lies a less-noticed reversal: America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers, replanting themselves and their families in lands they find more affordable and safe.

  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialOPEnglish
    112·
    6 days ago

    At least you can be certain the Americans who are disgusted enough with their country to make the non-trivial effort of uprooting themselves are good folks, and they’ll be a net positive for whichever new society they choose to become part of.

    • redlemace@lemmy.world
      85·
      6 days ago

      True. Side effect is probably that the usa sinks faster with each good person leaving. Still it’s hard to blame them for leaving.

        • redlemace@lemmy.world
          20·
          6 days ago

          Well…yes and no. If I recall well, little over 60% voted. Slightly more than half for trump. So a bit over 30% of the american voters voted for this shit. Those 40% that not voted… They could have made a difference but did not bother

          • 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            13·
            6 days ago

            I have a friend… A person I know, who is dating a good friend of mine. He’s from California originally. He convinced my friend to not vote because Kamala had “bad policies” when she was an AG. Blah blah pot. Blah blah guns… blah blah excuse.

            Now he’s vocal about Trump’s policies, blah blah guns. Blah blah free speech, blah blah ICE.

            I’m like mofo do you even hear yourself? She wasn’t perfect. She made mistakes… But nope couldn’t vote for the woman.

            Shits infuriating.

          • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialOPEnglish
            11·
            6 days ago

            They voted as a country. The country as an entity wanted Trump and it got him.

            Only the losers in any election starts itemizing. I get it: Trump is about as legit as Hitler in terms of absolute percentage of people who voted for him vs. the entire pool of potential electors.

            But that’s not how it works: he won as per the rules of the elections, and now he’s become the country’s choice and its problem.

          • merc@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            6 days ago

            The 40% that didn’t vote would probably have also broke 50/50 for Trump vs. Harris if they’d bothered to vote. But, most of them probably live in states like Massachusetts or Wyoming where one party’s lead is so huge that their vote really wouldn’t have had any effect.

            Stop deflecting and trying to blame non-voters when the real problem is the people who voted for Trump.

    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
      8·
      6 days ago

      Yeah, there are lots of really awesome Americans out there.

      Unfortunately there are some incredibly shitty ones who have managed to get control of everything.

    • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 days ago

      That’s a very naive point of view. It’s incredibly difficult to move countries and takes either a stable overseas job or lots of money.