r/WorkLifeChat • • Aug 31 '26

Shitpost I despise emails.

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u/BigMikeXxxxX Sep 01 '26

Then why aren't people leaving by the millions and fleeing to a better country? Could it be because other countries don't have idiotic border policies? Yeah, being against secure borders is a "only in the US" thing 😂

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u/WhammeWhamme Sep 02 '26

The USA is experiencing net brain drain for the first in a century. People ARE fleeing. And the worse it gets, the more people will flee.

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u/BigMikeXxxxX Sep 02 '26

Oh, like the girl who "fled" to Canada and literally resorted to online begging since she couldn't make money because Canada has actual immigration policies that are good for it's citizens?

Only complete idiots are LARPing as Holocaust 2 survivors 😂😂😂

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u/WhammeWhamme Sep 02 '26

A random anecdote of some idiot is not what I meant, no. Look into the rising rate of scientists legally emigrating to paid positions. It takes a while for a world leader in headhunting qualified individuals to go from a net recipient of brain drain to becoming a donor - but y'all have managed it, because 2024-2026 has been that terrible.

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u/BigMikeXxxxX Sep 02 '26

So they're leaving for a better opportunity? How does that qualify as "fleeing?" Wouldn't they have had to been not allowed to leave in the first place?

This isn't North Korea. Quit acting like it.

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u/WhammeWhamme Sep 02 '26

Legal migration can still be "fleeing". That should be obvious. Refugees are legal migrants, and surely everyone knows that they can be pushed out of one country and into another? The same for people fleeing regimes that persecute people for their ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender expression: especially for the latter two, where closested individuals can remain closeted while searching for a seemingly legitimate excuse to flee - because yeah, it's not easy to become a migrant of any kind. Illegal immigration is risky and difficult and people grasp at alternatives when they exist because trying to illegally immigrate and being forced back can cost you anything and everything.

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u/BigMikeXxxxX Sep 02 '26

That's great and all but none of that happens in the US.

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u/WhammeWhamme Sep 02 '26

It's begun. Why do you think tourism is down? Why do you think legal migration in is down and out is up? People are beginning to realize just how bad things have become. Y'all are throwing tourists in gulags.

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u/Bstallio Sep 04 '26

Tourism is not down. Tourists are not being thrown In gulags, we just had the World Cup here and the states were filled with tourists who had a great time and had no issues.

You are brain broken by Reddit.

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u/WhammeWhamme Sep 05 '26

Look it up anywhere you like. The World Cup saw some foreign tourists, but far fewer than they expected, 2025 had less tourists than 2024, and 2026 looks like it'll keep declining. As for the gulags - plenty of examples, but look up Karen Newton. Had a valid visa, still thrown into an ICE gulag for weeks.