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Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by entropea on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @10:43AM (#23701883)
This is exactly why I'm trying to move out of the USA.
Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by woodpanel on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:19AM (#23702400)
Why trying?

If it is so bad in the US, what is keeping you there? Many developed countries have relatively few immigration hurdles for US Americans to pass. UK in particular, European countries are lax in general in these regards (I live in Germany).

Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by vertex-four on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:22AM (#23702445)
"Relatively few" usually means a significant employment barrier - you usually have to be making a certain amount of money which is hard to come by at the lower rungs of STEM employment, especially if you're restricted to applying for companies you can interview with from overseas.
Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by woodpanel on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:35AM (#23702607)
"Relatively few" for Germany means e.g.

- if you're looking for a job here, as an US citizen you get 3 months visa without questions asked

- there is no minimum amount of money needed in Germany for US citizens, neither as a deposit nor as pay

Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by brabel on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:24PM (#23703269)
I believe that in all countries in Europe, there's a requirement that the pay be at market level to avoid the exploitation of immigrants (there's no distinction based on country of origin as you seem to imply), and that the job be advertised first with the EU's job agency (whatever that is called, I forgot now) and EU citizens are able to apply before an immigrant may be allowed to apply and take the job.
Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by woodpanel on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:38PM (#23703430)
" the pay be at market level "

I believe that is called minimum wage? So that would be already a given.

there's no distinction based on country of origin as you seem to imply

there is a distinction: There is a German by-law as well as a EU-decree that classifies US Americans as citizens of a "priviliged country" (§ 26 BeschV (Verordnung über die Beschäftigung von Ausländern)).

https://www.bdae.com/journalbeitraege/dezember-2016-leben-un...

Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by oarsinsync on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:35AM (#23702608)
You then also need to make more, as you continue to be taxed in the USA, until you've lived abroad long enough to qualify for citizenship in your new host country, and can give up your USA citizenship.
Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by thescriptkiddie on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:30AM (#23702556)
Because the US has an incredibly restrictive immigration policy towards most of the world, most countries retaliate by having an incredibly restrictive immigration policy against americans.
Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by tvphan on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:16AM (#23702355)
I see the USA as more chaotic than authoritarian.
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Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by vertex-four on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:36AM (#23702628)
Yes, but it's a lot more distributed. It's people being assaulted in public spaces for being in any way different. It's the bathroom bills encouraging people to assault people in bathrooms based on nothing but perceived trans status - and then this actually happening. I've suffered both in a country where I theoretically have protections, and I am aware that my friends in the US have suffered worse. I am not going to go into what folk outside my communities suffer from, but I imagine it's not a whole lot better.

This isn't violence based on stating an opinion - it's violence based on simply daring to exist in a public space.

There's very little news coverage of it because it's "small" things - assaults that leave bruises and not much more, but which the victims know mean they're not welcome in the public spaces everybody else takes for granted - that happen all the time to people minding their own business, and this is and has been the norm for a very long time.

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Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by vertex-four on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:45AM (#23702746)
OK, how about this: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/06/health/trans-teens-bathro... - right wing policies lead to sexual assault.

What about this - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/north-caro... - right-wing violence, kidnapping and sexually violating someone for taking a fucking piss.

Do you want me to spend the next 24 hours finding you news stories of right-wing violence against people minding their own business? Actually, no, you do it.

EDIT: Ooh, this one, where right-wing violence resulted in literally needing bone surgery to repair the victim's face: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/31/us/man-guilty-hate-crime-...

You try and explain to me how property damage is the same thing as murdering people in cold blood for simply existing. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/18/chicago...

What do you want to see? What would convince you that right-wing violence is a problem? Number of hate crimes?

Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by derision on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:17PM (#23703160)
There's nothing that indicates any of these were committed by right wing people. The first article is based on a study surveying 13-17 year olds and mentions some legislation, but no sexual assault that I can see.

Two drunk women, no evidence they are right wing or support any specific ideology.

And so on.

Individual acts of violence are not the same as an authoritarian regime, like the current left wing mob.

Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by vertex-four on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:17PM (#23703169)
Right, so violence against trans folk is totally left-wing. There's never been anybody encouraging violence against trans folk as part of right-wing ideology. Got it.

Many individual acts over time can be worse than a single instance of violence that affects many, you realise?

Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by derision on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:19PM (#23703196)
Yes, some of it is. Whether you want to believe it or not. One such instance is the GenderCritical subreddit which was recently banned: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/29/reddit-bann-transphobi...
Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by vertex-four on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:23PM (#23703257)
I am aware of TERFs, I currently live in a country where they recently managed to convince the Prime Minister to harass us in order to split the opposing party (which has multiple factions and where the primary reason they stay together is similar opinions on workers' rights) which had started gaining footing.

I also very much disbelieve that they constitute any of the left, given that the left largely won't talk to them or acknowledge the validity of their ideas, and they tend to wind up making deals with right-wing anti-feminist (even anti-cisgender-woman) organisations to push their agenda.

Calling yourself a "feminist" doesn't make you one, especially when you stomp on other women's hard-earned rights and privileges in order to pursue your goal of burying "men".

Find me a TERF who openly supports Black Lives Matter and spends a bunch of time advocating for women's rights other than the oppression of trans women, and I'll eat my hat.

EDIT: On the other hand, Black Lives Matter groups by and large support trans folk, at least in words. Black Lives Matter UK: "All forms of oppression are interrelated, you cannot be for Black lives if you do not emphatically support the cause for Black queer lives, Black trans lives [and] the lives of Black women." - and this demo: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/black-trans-... - and this trans person who cofounded a part of BLM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elle_Hearns

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Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by vertex-four on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:26AM (#23702502)
There's a reason some portion of the left is pretty intolerant of the current situation - it literally results in violence to people who don't even share their opinions in the first place.
Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by throw51319 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @01:15PM (#23703935)
The "current situation" is not as clear-cut as many would make it out to be. Watching an emotional video is not the smoking gun that shows one side to be completely right, but that's what's happening now.

I would think a good write up/analysis using high quality statistics would be the way to decide what is happening in the "current situation".

But a graphic and emotional video is going to pull the strings much harder.

Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by vertex-four on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @01:37PM (#23704183)
A lot of people have been trying "good write-ups" and "high quality statistics" for a long time, it turns out they don't actually change people's minds - people make up their mind before reading the article. The production of "high quality statistics" hasn't been the turning point in any civil rights movement I'm aware of.
Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by throw51319 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @04:17PM (#23706039)
Yeah - and i'm just saying that it should be, instead of an emotional response etc.
Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by vertex-four on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:59AM (#23710443)
For what it's worth, I've read the statistics, I've read the counterpoints to the statistics, I believe based on them that there is a right-wing violence problem in the US and some other specific places.
Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by take_a_breath on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:55AM (#23702871)
When the market doesn't like your actions, the market makes you pay. That's how the system works. Regulating that market response seems like the actual authoritarian move.