Another YouTuber I follow just moved to Canada.

[tess@mastodon.social]

Another YouTuber I follow just moved to Canada.

Chat, is it bad when your country's creatives start fleeing like rats from a sinking ship?

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@tess what worries me is the people who steer the economy are making a judgement that creatives and scientists are things you don't need anymore. Not when you have slop and medbeds

[swelljoe@mas.to]

@tess up until a few years ago, I couldn't imagine living anywhere else. But, we've had a decade of our institutions, every one of them, being captured by the dumbest, meanest, most regressive creatures, and I just don't see how we as a nation recover from that.

The rot is not merely at the top. Everybody* went along with fascism. Everybody went along with hatred for immigrants, trans folks. Everybody went along with disregard for the scientific consensus on climate.

*-Everybody=institutions

[tess@mastodon.social]

@mcc yeah. It's not like these people are all leaving for political reasons either - some of them are, sure, but not all.

I think for a lot of them it's just, "I can make enough money to live on and also have health care". But that's pure speculation on my part.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@tess I did think this poll result was interesting https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/poll-shows-more-young-women-want-to-leave-us-their-top-destination-is-canada/

[davecb@hachyderm.io]

@mcc @tess They'd be welcome in Canada, but the risk of losing about 20% of the US population would probably have the government put soviet-style exit controls on the borders