Your tittle is oddly worded. Supporting should be to be on favor of the ruling staying. Just a heads up because it may confuse some folk and scare them away when you want the opposite to happen.

I'm not in the US. but i totally agree with you.

You're...right sorry and thank you. I honestly lost my cool when writing this. I can see now how the title is badly worded and can give off the wrong idea.

Thank you friend, for both the correction and support

Honestly is so fucked up this sort of shit can happen, hope y'all keep safe and it gets fixed

I'm not surprised but I'm still very upset. I do hope this gets fixed soon

I agree with you. Tbh I've always felt unsafe and now I feel like I'm in even more danger. Pretty soon it'll go back to how it was in the 40s where I could get shot to death and no one would bat an eye bc I'm not white and "not protected under the constitution"(blacks werent considered humans back then). Tbh I'm saving up to leave this shithole. Where I'm going may be iffy on gays, but at least they dont take away rights bc of their religious bias and the citizens don't seem to mind it.

If you haven't considered it, I've been looking at Ireland. They are pretty easy on citizenship once you get there, mainly just stay out of trouble for a year and you are pretty much set. Last decade or so they did a real U-turn when it comes to gay rights and the other civil liberties the US are trying to take away now, so they are very well going in the opposite direction of the US very quickly and should only get better. Good temperate climate, green fields and hills, decent standard of living, universal healthcare, and so on.

Also, no language barrier. Its almost all english there with maybe a bit of Gaelic, though it is not the dominant language by any measure. Might have a bit of issue with accents, but certainly not insurmountable.

I may visit one day, you made it sound so good, especially since I like nature and such. Would I need a visa to enter or can I just walk in unannounced with only a vaccine card and test in hand(Ecuador and USA bc my gf wants to go)?
But I've already got family in Ecuador so that's where I'm headed. Also unlike the USA, they're slowly getting better, especially considering the fact it's a Catholic country that's starting to allow gay rights slowly.

For that country, its just as easy. I just need to sit tight for 90 days(or just buy a house) and then I can apply for citizenship. The fact that I'm marrying one means I can actually apply immediately upon getting there after a year in the marriage too. Pretty sure I need to work on my Spanish but other than that I'm good. lol.
It's a bonus that they also have USD so I can use my current bank to pay for everything without fees and such. AND everything has the price of American goods in 2005 so that's also love.

Think you'd still need to apply for a visa first, but think that's the same for everywhere else. Still, you got an in for Ecuador, so take that opening. You can go now before we fully see things here go Christian Taliban. I still need to wait through the application process.

Yeah. My mom is already prepping but ironically we BOTH lost our jobs right as we started planning the trip so I need to sell either a LOT of art or a LOT of chocolate until then :'l

We both got set up in two different jobs for the SAME thing too. Friggin sucks. Luckily I quit before they could fire me so I can go back in August but she didn't have her letter in hand so they got her off gaurd.

(Is it normal for people to target the ACTUAL hard workers and lie about things they do to get rid of them or is this just an American thing bc this is the second time it happened to us.)

Damn... It was probably something to do with either overtime or how much you two were getting paid. They think it's cheaper to get rid of more senior workers to fill the spot with a cheaper intern or new worker than to just keep you on. It's also growing as a way to try and prevent a labor union from forming. They can't get dissatisfied with conditions at the workplace if they aren't there long enough.

She took so much OT that she can actually sue Home Depot for breaking the law(at least in my state) bc they purposely let her go to 80 hours a week since she was the only ICQA on the shift.

For me, Amazon is smart and forces you out the door at 60 but I did go in so much that they eventually lowered the amount MET shifts that popped up for me.

Amazon definitely goes through workers as fast as they can. It's literally their business model for the fulfillment centers. Use you up and throw you out before shoving a fresh drone into your spot.

As for Home Depot, their CEO and board are mainly Trump style conservatives. It could either be all her overtime or they just didn't like her for being liberal, black, Hispanic, or fill in the blank minority.

pfft I did notice its mainly the back peeps that went out one by one there, even when I was working with her.

As for Amazon, you can last long there as long as you're a Manager's pet, but I was dethroned bc someone else was willing to snitch on coworkers. Sad part is, she literally does NO WORK.

I'd - gently - ask you to temper your expectations a little, or at least look at your material circumstances. Ireland's housing market is absolutely dismal, and I'm very lucky to have been born into the last vestiges of its middle class while it existed. Rent is, at present, a total landlord's market, and our wealth disparity is startling.

These may not apply to you, but while abortion is legal here, the material reality of access (GP provision, hospital availability, geographic issues, safe zone laws, restrictions within legality) are really dismal. It's frustrated me to no end to see a few Americans go 'lol it's crazy that Ireland h as abortion rights and America doesn't' while ignoring that for many, we functionally don't, and ignoring the huge differences in legislative processes and social contexts that have both situations the way they are now - on top of giving the impression they're saying it like 'Ireland [shithole country]'. But additionally, healthcare provision for trans people is beyond horrible. As bad as things are getting in the US with proposed laws, we still look at ye with a sense of envy. There are two private care options, one being to go with a UK service that risks drug seizures from abroad, the other to go with a man who infamously prescribes quarter doses, whereas public care entails a two year wait list (now exploded to four years) to see a psych who determines if you're 'really trans' by asking you what you think of when you masturbate. So many of my friends - the kindest, sweetest people in the world - have been genuinely traumatised by the single person who controls access to all care.

It's worth considering, but there's a lot of issues here that may make things very difficult.

Well shit... I was hoping things had been better. If nothing else I suppose I am at least in a blue state so any repeals from the Supreme Court wont be sending where I live back to the Dark Ages... at least until the Rethuglicans decide to push the abortion ban nationwide along with all the other cases the SC wants to overturn. Gay marriage, the right for consensual sex for gay people, and even contraception are going to be on the table.

Well, at least it is a good jumping off point. The EU countries are generally good in terms of being democratic and ensuring human rights. It might just be I spend a year getting by there until I qualify for full citizenship and then I can make the trip to Portugal or Spain. Somewhere the living conditions are better.

Good luck in any case!

Seconding this as someone living here, it’s has one of the highest costs of living in europe and doesn’t really have the wages to match. Also there is a huge issue with rent being ridiculously high. Nice place but not exactly the best one to live in atm

Look, I feel awful for your situation and I do hope you find a better place to live. The US has never been kind to minorities, especially black folks so I do understand your feelings on the matter.

But I am a transman, in a poly relationship, about to marry a man. I'm not cis nor straight. Just to be clear.

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