Been seeing a lot of content on Lemmy and google that has me feeling sad, y’all have any tips for distracting yourself when this happens?

  • Blahaj_BlastEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    My current thoughts are

    • move to. Better state if the election goes one way,

    • or head for the Canadian border before it’s closed ASAP after the election if it goes the dictator way

    • Evkob@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      or head for the Canadian border before it’s closed ASAP after the election if it goes the dictator way

      Yeah, about that. We’re looking set to elect the Conservative Party in our next federal elections, and provincially (which may be slightly more relevant, as healthcare is under provincial jurisdiction) New Brunswick, Saskatchewan and Alberta have all enacted anti-trans policies or legislation in the past year. Québec is currently “evaluating” trans rights, having put in place a “wisdom committee” (“comité des sages”) compromised of exclusively straight cis people.

      Things are still probably better than the States overall (for now), but I don’t think anywhere in Canada would be substantially better than a progressive area in the US.

      • Blahaj_BlastEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Well, fuck. The EU seems like a vastly more difficult destination, but I don’t want my family to end up in concentration camps in the next couple of years