Seems like a good time for a Handmaids Tale spinoff set in "Gilead",
maybe a prequel that starts with today's ruling? Add in the gun-stuff
and maybe it is a mashup between Handmaids and HIgh-Castle? Throw in
some masks and you get get a dose of Watchmen?
On 6/24/22 6:16 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
Tom-
Even before the NY CC Gun decision and now Roe v Wade, I have had more
than a few people asking me similar questions.
I don't have an easy answer.
Well, the answer to whether *any* northern European wants to enfold us
as refugees is probably "not even"... yet I know plenty who have
expatriated themselves to such places without becoming permanent
residents (much less citizens). Maybe buying a villa (or whole
village) in an (otherwise abandoned) village for EU$1 (anecdotally
something like that happens in Italy and maybe Greece and Portugal?)
will be enough of a stake to be permanent resident?
BTW I find the Scandinavian (at least Norway, Denmark, Sweden) more
appealing due to the relatively lower population density and high
natural resource context, but only if I am being a selfish-greedy
fellow who wants to avoid my own discomfort more than I want to make
the world a better place.
A new friend/colleague I met here is 75 and was raised in NYC but left
the US as conscription raised it's head in the 60s. He came to NL
and eventually naturalized, but has lived in Ireland and Iran for
significant amounts of time.
I'm still interested, myself, in what the implications are of mass
defection from the US (or just red-states) by Progressives? I believe
many expats around the world maintain (thinly justified) voting
registration in the US, but that seems a bit questionable in several
ways? I'm also interested in the opposite flow... what if enough
Blue folks purple up some Red states to shift the Senate to something
more representative?
This is fairly abstract even to me as I have plenty of red-tinged
neighbors and family that I can't even begin to shift purple even if I
talk myself blue (or purple) in the face with them. Most are
probably dancing in glee around the Abortion and the Gun debates.
Actually, my sister and her husband are not pro-gun at all and
probably as pro-choice as they are pro-life, yet somehow they voted
for Trump *at least* once! They were also pro-mask/vaxx... hmmm?
I think they just like hypercapitalistic extractive industries and
"owning Libs"...
- Steve
On 6/23/22 8:37 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
Steve:
Given today's reports of the SCOTUS decision on guns, do you think
the Dutch would accept two refugees from the U.S.?
TJ in Malta
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