We’re going to need to stick together and help our most vulnerable if we are to survive the next four years.
I’m a white cisgendered Christian male gun owner. Which is to say, the fascists think I’m one of them.
I have no kids. I’m single. I’m not in immediate danger. I’ve realized I don’t get to leave. I have to ride this out and try to change things because others can’t take the risk.
I’m encouraging several friends and family members to at least leave the state. It’s gonna get ugly.
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yeah and we’re also on the chopping block with cuts to social security, ACA repeal, medicare cuts, undermining ADA. I had to learn the hard way that this country’s government and it’s people at best do not give a fuck about us and at worst actively hate us and would prefer if we just died. I’m trying to temper my reaction but it’s hard to forget that disabled people were among the very first targets of the holocaust.
Exactly my thoughts.
Disabled people weren’t targeted like Jews were, the genocide of disabled people by Nazis was brutal and was one of their first, but it was also silent and discreet. They started by cutting all benefits, making lots of disabled people starve to death, than they made doctors “help” disabled people by “euthanising” them, they called it a “treatment” but it was murder.
going back to the days when disease and physical inability to work equals a death sentence.
Preach! Only the wealthy can leave. The rest of us can only dream of the freedom to pick up and leave. Solidarity. ✊
It’s even hard if you have money. So many Americans think they can just pack up and move to another country. I’m about retirement age, and I can’t tell you how many people have asked if I’m going to leave the country or tell me they plan to. So far, only one had line of sight to actually doing it because his family was from Spain and he owns property there, which makes a big difference.
For most countries there’s an application process and you have to show that you’re a bet benefit. Even at that, it’s usually a multi-year process.
Leave? And go where?
Europe is also on a steady march towards fascism, racism, and homophobia with a strong helping of the threat of Russian aggression. Climate change is an extreme risk worldwide. Money isn’t going to save you. Maybe if you are a billionaire you can buy comfort for the rest of your life.
So, wealthy isn’t enough. Filthy rich is the only answer…maybe.
I have no ability to leave and think it is morally repugnant to leave the indigent, and oppressed to fend for themselves. As you said, you can run away from your problems or try and fix the problems. Most assuredly though, money that should be taxed keeps those with it away from the consequences of conflict.
“Thoughts and prayers.”
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this is not about visiting but about moving.
In most countries it’s impossible to get residency if you’re on disability benefits. And for a lot of us we’re unable to travel. Although we tend to be the people that are seen the least, and therefore forgotten about.
“this is not about visiting but about moving.”
this tweet is still fundamentally incorrect.
The distinction you’re making between traveling and moving is impractical in the real world.
“In most countries it’s impossible to get residency if you’re on disability benefits.”
you do not need to get residency to move somewhere.
“And for a lot of us we’re unable to travel”
“a lot”? sure.
“most”? no.
a lot of abled people can’t travel.
but most abled people can.
a lot of people cannot travel.
most people can.
Yo I recognize you from the last time I tried to say not everyone can easily move countries and you were like “it’s as easy as buying a plane ticket for a hundred bucks and you’re set”. I think you really need to look into how you empathize with people and realize that not everyone is you. The reality is moving is quite difficult for most people already, and now you’re in a chronic illness community basically telling people their struggles are imagined
Hey friend this is a support group for disabled people not a place to spout your unsourced opinions on disability. Perhaps read the sidebar.
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if someone cannot work how do you expect them to move and support themselves in a new country?
If someone cannot work, how do you expect them to support themselves in the country they currently live in?
SSI, foodstamps, medical assistance, section 8 housing, CADI workers, IHS workers. All of these things and more help me support myself and be in a group home again. I can’t work, so I can’t move.
