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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here...
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On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 16:23:34 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

>
>
>On Thu, 7 Nov 2024, Cryptoengineer wrote:
>
>> On 11/7/2024 8:08 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>> In article <lp3qduFb8jqU1@mid.individual.net>,
>>> Gary R. Schmidt <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote:
>>>> Hey!
>>>>=20
>>>> Is anybody else out there?
>>>>=20
>>>> Or has the disaster that is the USA meant that they've already =
started
>>>> trucking people off to the ovens???
>>>>=20
>>>> Only a few message from James and one from Lynn - well, apart from =
the
>>>> people/bots that I filter, that is.
>>>=20
>>> I imagine the American posters are either updating their passports
>>> or making lists of which neighbours to inform on and the rest of us
>>> are trying to work out if we're Austria or Poland.
>>>=20
>>> (if you have to ask, you're always Poland)
>>
>> My wife and I have had serious discussions about moving.
>> I have the possibility to get an EU citizenship, I
>> grew up as an expatriate, and we both travel, so the idea
>> isn't as alien as it would be to some. We're both retired,
>> and have sufficient funds to be accepted in many countries.
>>
>> For the moment, we're sitting tight. Trump only got a 3%
>> margin - there are plenty of non-Trumpers left in the
>> country.
>>
>> Personally, I concur with Bernie Sanders that the Democrats
>> abandoned supporting working class interests, and Trump said
>> all the right things to pick that demographic up. I'm pretty
>> doubtful that he'll actually deliver for that group. He's
>> a lame duck, unconstrained by re-election. He will strip mine
>> the country to benefit billionaires.
>>
>> pt
>
>If you have any democrat/socialist leanings, in all honestly, I cannot=20
>recommend europe enough. I think you would be very happy with society in=
=20
>Sweden, Norway or Finland.
>
>I'm in the exact opposite position! I hate living in europe, and when I=20
>retire, the plan it for me and my wife to move to rural, red US to the=20
>most conservative and bible thumping place we can find! =3D)

Ah.

Idaho.

Or Montana.

(When our IRS call site adopted "team concept", we decided to divide
incoming calls among teams by SSN rather than State because, as one of
us put it, "I don't want to spend an entire day talking to Idaho". Of
course, that was in the days of Rev Butler and Aryan Nations. Current
conditions may be better. Or not, at least medically.)
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"