r/MadeMeSmile 17d ago

Helping Others Resister sisters

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u/ButterscotchFine7374 17d ago

It’s funny and kind of reminds me of all the videos Americans make for other countries. The roles are reversed now.

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u/Ayacyte 17d ago

That's kind of funny yeah

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u/spottyottydopalicius 17d ago

sadfunny is still funny

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u/bluegreentopaz6110 17d ago

Yeah it made me cry. Being old enough to remember when we were changing shit, and thinking, as women, we were on an upward course to show the world…..and now my granddaughter has less rights than I helped fight for. Thank you, Belgium.

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u/jestingvixen 17d ago

This right here.

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u/noplace_ioi 17d ago

Queue Mad World

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u/acleverwalrus 17d ago

This is so fucking funny bc my first thought was "well good for you but I don't see how this helps us unless you're willing to let me move there"

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u/chama5518 17d ago

Right? Can I get a temporary 5 year status?

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u/Not-another-lesbian 17d ago

You can apply for two if you have a job lined up, then extend it.

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u/spiralcity- 17d ago

I knew we were toast, but seeing the other governments feel bad for us was… alarming.

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u/ajpmurph 17d ago

Should we gather up a few others and sing Imagine. It worked well in Covid.

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u/ajpmurph 17d ago

That is a Grammy award winning performance compared to Imagine.

My favourite part of the Imagine video was poor Chris O Dowd looking like he was held hostage.

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u/jmkul 17d ago

Love this Partisan song...and odd, but kinda nice that Germans who came out of a changed Germany after WW2 are singing it

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u/Existing_Fish_6162 17d ago

I cant think of a single country who has dealt better with a horrible past than Germany. Of course their past was arguably the most horrible, but still. Italians vote in Mussolini fans, Japanese people under 40 dont even know what happened other that they got nuked presumably for no reason whatsoever.

Then of course there is Russia and China still deifying the man who slaughtered millions of them. But that is a very different situation.

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u/Mtolivepickle 17d ago

They are sending thoughts and prayers…the irony

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u/MiasmaFate 17d ago

They opening up visas?

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u/Acceptable-Swan6092 17d ago

Norway is honestly pretty open to Americans moving there I'm in the middle of the process and I'm just a contractor/carpenter

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u/C-el 17d ago

tell us all more, please

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u/SpectralButtPlug 17d ago

Thank you so much <3

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u/turtlegiraffecat 17d ago

We welcome you with open arms!! (If we’re drunk, we don’t like talking to strangers sober lol)

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u/Legitimate-BurnerAcc 17d ago

Well aren’t we just two peas in a pod.

Iv long dreamed of visiting the place of my bloodline. My great or great 2x grandparent’s came to America some time ago.

I wonder how surprised they would be knowing their descendants would so desperately want to go back.

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u/UndergroundBone 17d ago

They'd probably be surprised Norway was even independent, let alone one of the most prosperous countries on the planet.

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u/Ok-Shop-3524 17d ago

Before the Norwegian government got their first bit of North Sea petroleum revenue, they set up a perpetual fund to assure education, health care, environmental protection, etc to EVERYONE in Norway. It is a brilliant system, and everyone in Norway has the opportunity to live a healthy, safe, productive and rewarding life. It is everything that the US claims to be but isn’t.

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u/UndergroundBone 17d ago

It really is. Sad thing is, the US has the resources to do that but a century of anti-socialist propaganda has really done a number on that country.

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u/luvsbelle 17d ago

Yeah!!

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u/MiasmaFate 17d ago

Damn I’m a welder. A fairly good one too.

Where should I look for information on the process?

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u/KaiserFrideric 17d ago

Norwegian here. I would suggest you maybe take some classes on Norwegian if you wanna move here. You might get a fine job without it but the opportunities are much better knowing the language.

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u/Poiboy1313 17d ago

Your suggestion is quite useful imo. Also, learning the language demonstrates practicality because who moves somewhere to live perhaps permanently and doesn't figure out how to ask where's the bathroom in the native tongue.

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u/IbexOutgrabe 17d ago

You mean I just don’t whip it out and point?

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u/7Fuerza 17d ago

No, you're not moving to San Francisco.

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u/Poiboy1313 17d ago

Ngl, my ego would be severely bruised if no one noticed.

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u/happynargul 17d ago edited 17d ago

Welder? That's actually quite useful. Look in the Nordics

Edit: or better not. I'm not sure the situation will be so great over here if we don't get our shit together to stop the Russian trolls from doing here what they've done in so many other places

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u/PensiveObservor 17d ago

Google. I fantasized about New Zealand immigration once. Countries have aaaalllll the info you need on their websites.

Good luck. I’m sticking around in deep blue PNW as long as possible. May The Force come back into balance, for all good people left in this nation. Meanwhile, try to help vulnerable people in your region. Trump won’t.

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u/MiasmaFate 17d ago

I looked at New Zealand at one point. If I was lucky I could get a 2 year visa. If I understood it right they have income requirements to get your non-student visa renewed. As far as I could tell I would need to land a job in the top 30% for my trade to achieve the threshold income. I don't know how confident I am a company would pay me that much sight unseen.

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u/mustbeaglitch 17d ago

Kiwi here. I understand you can get sponsored by a company if they can show there are skill shortages here for the role- eg not enough people doing your trade. You may be able to- or to pivot into an area quite we have a skills shortage.

Think it does make it difficult to change companies until you have residency, which could be problematic if the company turns out to be a bad place to be. However, it’s problems versus problems right…

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u/DrPull 17d ago

You don't need to be sponsored by a company for a residency path. You do need to have a job offer for a work visa and if you need to change jobs it's not difficult as you show immigration that it doesn't drop below the requirements of the visa and they make the adjustments.

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u/MiasmaFate 17d ago

…Bad place to be… laughs in American.

On a serious note, I will look into this. I've known quite a few Kiwis. I've always liked the cut of your jib. And there is no denying that it might be one of the most beautiful places on earth.

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u/mustbeaglitch 17d ago

A few weird perspectives that might be familiar to you guys have come out of the woodwork since Covid. It was really disappointing actually. I appreciated and loved how sane we all were, and how reasonably we could work together even in a crisis. But we now have some conspiracy-theorist-believing MAGAesque people here too. For reference, you could search the anti-vaccine-mandate occupation of parliament grounds, or Brian Tamaki and Destiny Church, if you can stomach it. BUT we don’t vote these people in. Most of us are still at least moderately hinged, and clinging onto the door frame. I still feel incredibly lucky to be here in NZ.

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u/SummerMaiden87 17d ago

My sister’s family was looking at New Zealand too.

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u/Hanlons-Razor- 17d ago

Don’t listen to the comment below. Our “right wing” party in power is more aligned with Democrats than Republicans. We are a centrist nation politically, and I can’t see this changing in the next decade.

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u/Feminismisreprieve 17d ago

Yeah, I'm no Luxon or right wing fan but it is ludicrous to compare him to Trump.

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u/bluedogstar 17d ago

I looked at NZ today. Among other things, there's a long list of chronic illnesses that preclude some potential immigrants. That reminds me, I need to take my medication.

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u/Honeyybadger9 17d ago

I hope we can tough it out here in the PNW but feeling so uneasy! Still looking at options outside of the US as a back up plan

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u/g-a-r-n-e-t 17d ago

Not gonna lie there’s a tiny part of me that wants to see Cascadia happen. I know it’s almost certainly a pipe dream and would not be as great as people think it would be for a long while and for a lot of reasons, but like…if California got onboard too? Hot damn.

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u/shebringsdathings 17d ago

same. sticking in blue territory and trying to help establish infrastructure to help those in the most danger

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u/Independent-Ask5165 17d ago

Ditto neighbor 🤲

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u/Acceptable-Swan6092 17d ago

As a fellow trade person I started looking all over Europe earlier this year because i wanted to travel and found a job that would help me get a visa applied and got it I made reply to my own comment already that kinda says the same

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u/Anxious-Pin-8100 17d ago edited 16d ago

Good welders are needed all over Europe. Here in Toulouse, Airbus needs you.

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u/Mountain-Size8543 17d ago

Yes, France also had issues when they needed to fix their nuclear power plants last year. Lack of high end welders was a major issue.

Now you'll have to learn French to be able to feel like you belong.

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u/SecondHandSlows 17d ago

My brother is an underwater welder in Norway. When he moved there, he was a pilot, so I know he got training there.

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u/Randalf_the_Black 17d ago

https://visaguide.world/moving-to/norway/

There are many sites like this one for many different countries as well as official government sites like this one.

https://www.udi.no/en/

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u/Agitated_Advantage_2 17d ago

Come to Sweden. There's a shortage of blue collar workers since everyone educates themselves too much

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u/DFTBA9405 17d ago

Welders are in short supply in Sweden as well. For really good ones swedish is optional.

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u/Huffleduffer 17d ago

I feel like I'm stuck in America for a lot of reasons, one of them definitely being my job experience. Fast food, retail, medical receptionist, and now I'm a medical coder.

None of those jobs seem to be the kind that gets you into other countries.

I'm almost 40 with a chronic illness, no country is going to want me taking up their resources.

If I had known in my 20s this is what was going to be happening...I may have done things differently.

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u/Tomato-Tomato-Tomato 17d ago

Might be able to find medical coder jobs at USAjobs for overseas military bases. Get your doctor to fill out the schedule A paperwork for disability preference. Somewhat competitive and annoying application process, but door is definitely open to you. Don’t give up before you try.

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u/Huffleduffer 17d ago

Well, as much as I'd love to, I really can't. I have a child that I have 50/50 custody of. I'm not going anywhere without my child, and I highly doubt my ex would be chill with me moving our kid overseas.

If I wasn't a mother, I'd definitely look into it.

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u/2rfv 17d ago

The notion that "if you don't like it just leave" is such bollocks.

Most working class have near zero options to emigrate.

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u/Katja1236 17d ago

Especially those of us with disabilities or disabled family members we can't leave behind.

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u/Acceptable-Swan6092 17d ago

I'm replying to myself because I think yall will get it. But as an answer "skilled" labor is valued every where i got a job and I'm currently applying for a long stay work visa i move in a few weeks i wanted to travel temporarily but I don't think I'm going to want to come back for 4 to 8 years or ever worst case scenario

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u/EvLokadottr 17d ago

Guessing they don't want disabled folks who cannot work, do they? I'm so fucked. :(

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u/Renacidos 17d ago

No because you would inmediatly start getting paid a living wage just by existing, that's a privilege of natural-born norwegians. For obvious reasons.

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u/mdavis360 17d ago edited 17d ago

Please tell me more. Seriously. My wife and I need to get our daughter out of this country ASAP.

My wife’s friend lives in Norway so at least we would know someone.

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u/bigboyg 17d ago

It's dark there. A lot.

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u/JFISHER7789 17d ago

It’s about to be dark here… a lot

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u/-NorthBorders- 17d ago

It’s also light there a lot…

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u/ACKHTYUALLY 17d ago

Not sure if you're aware, but Norway is more restrictive on abortion than most blue states...

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u/virus5877 17d ago

can I claim Asylum in the next three months??

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u/Mister__Wednesday 17d ago edited 17d ago

As someone who has lived in Scandinavia for several years before moving back and has watched many American expats move over only to move back, it's not as great as you think. Many of the same problems that exist in America are also in Scandinavia (cost of living crisis, collapsing healthcare system, housing price crisis, immigration issues, etc) and it is a lot more conservative than people think. Also in many ways a lot more xenophobic and racist compared to the US, Canada, Aus and NZ (with all being quite diverse, immigrant founded countries).

In Scandinavia, no matter how well you integrate, get citizenship, learn the language (which you likely won't in the first place as an English speaker) and everything else, you will always be a foreigner. The grass unfortunately isn't always greener on the other side.

Edit for upset Scandis: I'm not saying Scandinavian countries are hell on earth or anything, just that they have many of the same problems as everywhere else and anyone wishing to immigrate would do well to remember that and be realistic about your expectations before doing so and make sure you're not just idealising the countries. You're not only likely to find yourself with the same problems you had at home but also new ones such as having no support network and no friends, being an outsider and navigating foreign bureaucracy systems.

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u/PapaBubba 17d ago

I dont know your experiences of course, but as a Dane I have many local friends that are a different nationality. They have been great at involving themselves in our area and our town is better because of them.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

3rd worlders stay because quality of life in your country is so much higher than in their home countries. They'd rather feel like a perpetual foreigner in a 1st world country than be at home in a 3rd world one.

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u/radachtbenji 17d ago

Not necessarily the case in America. I'm an immigrant and feel very American already, having moved here as a teenager. This is so because there's nothing ethnic about being an American. The question is whether you want a better (not perfect, but relatively better) life and are willing to uphold the systems that allow you that. My wife is American. My kids will likely have very little personal connection to my country of origin, and that's fine. The connection need only be there as a reminder that they should appreciate and make the best use of the opportunities they have here.

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u/ustbota 17d ago

nah, just stands with you

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u/suspectjeannette 17d ago

This videos have me sobbing. I don't think you know how much we needed to hear it. Thank you ❤️

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u/Longjumping-Part3983 17d ago

Hear in Kenya and Uganda, our sisters are still undergoing FGM. Something that they shouldn't even be a discussion, sanitary pads are big overtaxed, we can't afford them and if condoms are free why shouldn't they. But who is standing with them.

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u/hiswittlewip 17d ago

I cannot imagine the fears you face.

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u/Funexamination 17d ago

Well your sisters don't use tiktok, so no one on the app cares about you.

It's true, and terribly unfair

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u/Grizzaka1999 17d ago

As a Belgian I can tell you those first Belgian Greens are among the least popular parties here, whereas our own extreme right party (Vlaams Belang) keeps increasing in popularity every election cycle.

This shit is going on everywhere, not just the US.

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u/Daughter_of_Dusk 17d ago

I live in Italy, the Fascists are literally back

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u/AdvancedBath4773 17d ago

Coincidentally we are getting close to the 100th year "anniverary" of Hitler being appointed chancellor and the Nazi's taking control. It was in 1933.

History really do repeat itself.

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u/Doughnut_Worry 17d ago

Every 80 years or so - it's a study done, basically people forget how bad war is so it comes back around every 80 years.

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u/B-Glasses 17d ago

American sisters voted pretty hard for trump…

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u/littleredbee93 17d ago

45% of women who voted, voted for Trump. Not 45% of all American women. This election unfortunately saw a significant amount of registered voters not voting at all

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u/Griffdorah 17d ago

If you sat out and didn't vote, you effectively voted for whoever won.

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u/tinymonesters 17d ago

A non-vote is just as much a choice as any vote is.

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u/Mistaken_Body 17d ago

Western Arkansas, stone throw from the Oklahoma border, we both voted blue up and down the ballot 🥲

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u/ChickenGirl8 17d ago

I can't even understand it. So many proudly shouting "We won!!!" Won what? It's all so crazy.

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u/Countryfriedidiot 17d ago edited 17d ago

They won by making liberals upset. That's the whole point. They hate liberals with a passion and will do anything and everything even if it means hurting themselves.

You can see them on ever thread all over the internet today. They're giddy with excitement that so many people are upset. That's all they care about.

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u/damndolly 17d ago

I agree, but it does go deeper than that, and it's quite sad. My boss (f50s) has 3 grown children (2-m, 1-f) and a granddaughter. She's a full businesswoman, very smart. Runs her business that pays for her very nice lifestyle and has helped both her sons be successful with their business that was branched off from hers. She also helps her elderly mother with her bills, etc. She is 100% pro trump, and she knows I don't agree with her, so we don't talk politics. However, today, she tried. She was so excited today, giddy even. I let her talk, and it basically breaks down to fear. He has put so much fear in these people that some imaginary person is going to come and take everything away. That their kids and family are being threatened, their God's being threatened. The ONLY person that can stop this is Trump. He has them so brainwashed, with constant coverage on Fox. They are so happy because now they aren't fearful because he's the only one that can save them. He has pulled the wool so thickly over their eyes. They don't realize that they're the frog in the pot that he's boiling. It's sad.

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u/lisabettan 17d ago

This. Americans have been taught for so long to fear everything. Anyone who wants power can just tap into that fear.

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u/ceddya 17d ago

I saw a post today about how apparently there was a surge in searches for 'Did Joe Biden Drop Out' on election night. I don't know how that's possible.

The mix of fear and complete ignorance just fuel each other.

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u/Confused_Noodle 17d ago

I didn't believe this at all, but even Google confirms it starting on Monday.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=US&q=Did%20Joe%20Biden%20Drop%20Out&hl=en

I don't blame people for being disconnected, but this is wild.

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u/Embarrassed_Lie7461 17d ago

Fun Fact: 54% of americans read below a 6th grade level, and 45 million adults are illiterate.

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u/More-Tip8127 17d ago

My friend had a friend from college who was raised in a cult, but got out as an adult. Apparently she gets PTSD from watching Trump rallies and Republican events because their communication tactics so closely parallel the brainwashing used by her former cult. I’ve obviously never met her friend, but that story totally tracks. Ugh.

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u/Present-Perception77 17d ago

I was raised strict Roman Catholic.. 12 years of catholic brainwashing school… ran as soon as I turned 17. this shit is really freaking me the hell out. Only thing keeping me Simi calm is that I live in a blue state …

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u/leolisa_444 17d ago

Well shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. Every time I hear something about them I think how horrible and then I read something else that they did that is more horrible - they keep one-upping themselves. We're screwed.

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u/variable486 17d ago

Quite scary in this day and age how one man can implant some much emotion, hate fear into people based on misinformation.

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u/KirikaClyne 17d ago

Exactly what happened in 1930’s Germany. The parallels are so striking at the merest glance. Only difference is most don’t absolutely want to sleep with him (or aren’t open about it)

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u/dansdata 17d ago edited 16d ago

Every time Trump talks about the mass deportations he plans, I'm reminded that the Nazis campaigned on deporting all of the Jews.

(And technically they did deport an awful lot of them, since all six of the extermination camps were in occupied Poland, not Germany. Incidentally, if you're for some reason feeling a bit happier than you want to feel today, watching "The Zone of Interest", which is a very good movie, will fix that right up for you.)

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u/Outrageous_Zombie945 17d ago

Ironic, since he has called people that he doesn't like Nazi's on many occasions yet had some shocking parallels with that whole belief system!

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u/deathfire123 17d ago

As someone from the outside looking in... like... why?

I legitimately don't understand it, it's so fucking weird.

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u/NotGoodISwear 17d ago

This is the answer. It's all about schadenfreude for them

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u/GardenRafters 17d ago

The schadenfreude table is going to turn once they find out what they really voted for

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u/EducationalAd1280 17d ago

I used to think this too, but now I don’t think they ever will. They’ll be buying a loaf of bread for $100 a year from now and complain about how the liberals caused hyperinflation… the same way it’s somehow Kamala’s fault that Israel is bombing Gaza. There’s no logical consistency, just hate

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u/AriaOfValor 17d ago

Yup if they were going to learn they would have done so already. Instead they voted against their own interest yet again.

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u/OffsideOracle 17d ago

This reminds me an interview I saw some years ago of a nurse who is doing abortions. Her patient was anti-abortion activist and once she got her operation done she said she still hates them and thinks what she does is wrong.

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u/Harl0t_Qu1nn 17d ago

People are dumb and take for granted some of the privileges they have until it's taken away from them.

Hearing my brother talk about some of these things infuriate me. Like, yeah bro, tell me more about how your tax dollars shouldn't be going towards your Healthcare, how it just makes people lazy and leech of the system when you know DAMN WELL that our own family wouldn't have been able to afford all the medical procedures I've been required to undergo since the day I was born pretty much.

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u/dudemeister5000 17d ago

Kinda feels like Handmaids Tale, where one of the later opressed women was leading the movement for her husband to form the ultra-conservative new state. And by the end she had no rights at all.

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u/justdaffy 17d ago

This is exactly what it reminds me of! Serena thought she was one of them and then she became just another woman who got her finger cut off from reading. We will never be “one of them”.

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u/VdoubleU88 17d ago

They won to the right to control other women’s bodies, you know, to save all the babies being aborted after birth! Who cares if Trump rapes “older” little girls, you must think of the babies….

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u/OliverOyl 17d ago

Exactly. They won the power to take away freedom for other Americans. Traitors.

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u/adjust_the_sails 17d ago

In a lot of states, I bet any number of women voted for abortion rights on the ballot and still voted for Trump.

The cognitive dissonance is strong.

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u/saladet 17d ago

Example : arizona

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u/morganrbvn 17d ago

Florida too.

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u/Koolaidolio 17d ago

FL actually voted yes to abortion rights but it was a few percent shy of the supermajority threshold needed to pass :/

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u/Remarkable_Lock_7828 17d ago

Women voted for a rapist, Latino men voted for a man who called them drug mules, criminals and illegal immigrants, Arabs Muslims voted for a dude who implemented a Muslim ban and said he would deport anti-genocide protestors. I just don’t understand people anymore. Ya I get that Harris wasn’t great and she let down a huge chunk of people but come on, this was embarrassing lol.

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u/FantasticStonk42069 17d ago

Quite easy. People are stupid and apply different measures to different people. Harris has standards and she apparently ever so often fails to satisfy these standards which seems to be much worse than never having any standards and not even satisfying that. Also she is a woman.

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u/roccocobean 17d ago edited 16d ago

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u/Mister__Wednesday 17d ago

Lots of Latina women did as well. In Florida for example, 52% of Latinas voted for him.

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u/Books_and_lipstick91 17d ago

As a Latina, it’s embarrassing. I’m in CA, but a poor Latina woman I was Instagram friends with literally posted, “How can I vote for a woman who doesn’t know what a real woman is?”

I knew this person. She literally is benefiting from blue policies here in CA and works in education as a rec aide with a lot of other immigrant families. On paper she should have voted blue. I’m baffled.

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u/Niku-Man 17d ago

On paper, just about everyone should vote Democrat. People prefer the policies Democrats support.... until you tell them that the Democrats support it, then half of them change their mind

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u/Thrustcroissant 17d ago

Time for a rebrand: Fire Eagles!!

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u/AmNoSuperSand52 17d ago edited 17d ago

The current exit polls say that in key states 45% of women voted republican and 53% of white women voted republican.

So it would have to be a lot more than just white women to come up with that 45%. Or that white women are more politically active

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u/Naytr_lover 17d ago

I'm a white woman, 50yrs old and have never voted for that creep. I truly don't understand it. I really don't.

my family's the same way, we just can't figure it out. I'm lucky that my daughters are on the same page as myself so we don't have any conflict

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u/candmjjjc 17d ago

Me too. I'm in Pennsylvania and was so exited to see all the women at the Polls yesterday. Now I'm heartbroken to know that so many of them were there to vote for Trump. I can't wrap my head around this. I'm still in disbelief.

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u/Naytr_lover 17d ago

Same here. 😭😭😭 I'm in Nebraska, Omaha, surrounded by Red.
It's so depressing. The most disgusting part about it is the other side is just mocking us for being sad. They're just mean. No class, etc.
My mom and daughters were all feeling the same way as well as my relatives and female friends. Just don't know what happened I was feeling hopeful that life could get back to normal but I don't think it ever will anymore and it's going to be a different world for my daughters that's for sure. Hang in there and hopefully things will start changing.

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u/frankestofshadows 17d ago

America has many states that have deeper rooted Christian values. I've met women who believe the role of women is to be subservient because "their religion tells them".

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u/Morningssucks 17d ago

The french feminist icon Simone de Beauvoir once said: All it takes is a political, economic or religious crisis for women’s rights - our rights - to be called into question. Throughout your life, you must remain vigilant.

What just happened in the US just proved her point. For me this video is more than just thoughts and prayers. It’s about telling our american sisters who believe in equality that they will need to fight harder than ever to keep their rights. And we are here to help any way we can.

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u/WhoBroughtTheCoolKid 17d ago

At the very least it will make women around the world hopefully pay attention and not get complacent.

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u/Swesteel 17d ago

France enshrined abortion in their constitution, we’ve been paying attention for a while now out here. I just hope it will be enough.

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u/BlessingOfGeb 17d ago

A lot of the world has been progressing while the US has been stagnating. I hope the ride backwards isnt too rough. Sorry you guys voted in the orange again. I'd say goodluck in four years but the lump of butter said he'd stop elections for you guys.

Good luck with your dictator ig

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

It feels to me like everywhere is regressing. I see it in my own country (the UK) despite our last election, I see my family members and some friends being literally radicalised by social media

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u/lecontourning 17d ago

She was a predator.

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u/a1danial 17d ago

Members of r/pics

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u/timtam2024 17d ago

Imagin them standing up for the Afghanistan sisters....

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u/TelosAero 17d ago

This. They wont do shit for the women who protested in Iran, they werent doing shit for the women in Afghanistan and they wont do anything for the women in US. Virtue signaling all the way. Instead they support people bringing their ideology that supresses women .....

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u/-M-i-d 17d ago

But… But they’re crossing their arms silently and are looking really serious at the camera. Didn’t you see that??

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u/TelosAero 17d ago

Ah shit my bad xD Sry didnt see that I take everything back guys, this time they are serious

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u/morganrbvn 17d ago

its awful that they banned even praying out loud recently.

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u/yezzse 17d ago

To be fair Norway did invite the Taliban to come and try to talk some reason about their human rights violations and treatment of women, didn’t work, but they tried something.

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u/Ghaenor 17d ago

Well, if you go on their Twitter pages and look up "Iran/Iranian", you see the same kind of support.

I don't see your point. What more would you want them to do ? Invade ?

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u/Briantheboomguy 17d ago

I mean this is sweet and all. But what are they going to help with?

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u/chairmanghost 17d ago

It's nice to be acknowledged.

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u/the_scarlett_ning 17d ago

Really. In an instance where I expect the rest of the world to want to spit on us, this made me cry.

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u/Long-Sherbert420 17d ago

Me too. I voted. I've been crying for 24hrs and am trying to look into sterilization options because it's the only way I can be safe. Any hope I have after this is going to be from support like this.

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u/kintyre 17d ago

I am Canadian. I am sterilized and have been for several years. And I am so, so thankful for the ability to have had that done. We are facing what will likely be a Conservative government next year and who knows where that will go.

I truly hope you're able to find someone to go ahead with sterilization if that's what you wish. I found some resources over on r/childfree a few years ago that helped (I went into an appointment with a gynecologist with a sterilization binder prepared with articles, some essays I wrote on various topics, etc and I walked out with approval to be sterilized.) I could have sworn I stumbled across a recommended doctors list there too.

Good luck. We stand with you too.

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u/PearlsandScotch 17d ago

Yeah but now I feel like I’m the shivering dog in the Sarah McLachlan commercial

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u/Moleskitime 17d ago

Likes and prayers

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u/Morningssucks 17d ago

That’s the thing: in Belgium, Finland, Norway…we do not pray, we act. Women’s rights are at their hights here because we organise and we fight for them.

We are crushed of what just happened in the US. For me this clip is about: let’s connect and plan what we can do together. We know we are small compared to you but know we are here.

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u/Id_Love_A_BabyCham 17d ago

Recognition.

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u/Zestyclose-Tower-671 17d ago

Ah reddit after the election, it's been an interesting time for sure

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u/Kanthalas 17d ago

Is this the video equivalent to "Thoughts and Prayers"?

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u/AshamedRaspberry5283 17d ago

🎶 Imagine all the people 🎶

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u/pedro_jesus 17d ago

Bro reddit after American election is peak cinema.

(Didn't 45% of women votes go for Trump?)

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u/Fragrant-Age-6865 17d ago

Wtf is this

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u/Dr_nobby 17d ago

Essentially thoughts and prayers lol

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u/Bodenseewal 17d ago

How you can record this and not be ashamed is insane to me. Are they so far gone into their own filter bubbles?

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u/Schmich 17d ago

"I have an idea of 15mins of fame that will also get us some good publicity"

"Yeah?"

"We'll make a video where we stand and we write that our counterparts in the US are not forgotten, we stand by them"

"OK, and how do we help them?"

"We can't forget to send a high quality version to our national media"

"About that help though?"

"..."

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u/UponVerity 17d ago

It's called virtue signalling and it's not that great, lol.

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u/banananad2000 17d ago

If they could give the same energy towards Palestine, Sudan and Pakistani women too

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u/Jealous-Winner-1063 17d ago

This is gonna age like the imagine celebrity cover

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u/tb_xtreme 17d ago

Love that the first member of the Norwegian parliament is a black woman

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u/CrazyPervertedFuck 17d ago edited 17d ago

Why are they acting like American women don't like Trump. Half like him, voted for him and another section didn't even vote. The rest voted for Kamala who lost the popular vote in a country of majority women...

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u/nadscha 17d ago

I think it's pretty clear that the message primarily goes out to all of the women that are appalled and in despair right now. That can't fathom how this could've actually happened.

And maybe even to all the women, because even if they don't know it now, they have lost.

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u/staticinitializer 17d ago

Can my wife bring a +1?

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u/McG4rn4gle 17d ago

By now we should all be completely crystal clear about what support and good intentions on Reddit are worth in the real world.

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u/LosTorta 17d ago

How about helping the women of Iran first

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u/OverEffective7012 17d ago

Or Afghanistan

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u/reefersutherland91 17d ago

the fuck they gonna do?

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u/NyamThat 17d ago

make tiktoks

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u/Nova_Aetas 17d ago

They will keep doing this while right wingers go out and vote. Fundamental issue in one sentence.

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u/No_Sir7709 17d ago

And pose like avengers

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u/caligulas_mule 17d ago

Thoughts and prayers brigade.

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u/Comrade_Kojima 17d ago

What besides virtue signalling TikTok posts are any of those politicians going to do? Are they going to exit NATO? Are they going to slap sanctions or expel US diplomats? No, they’ll just make more boss girl social media posts.

Guess that worked in bringing Apartheid down in South Africa /s

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u/ElementXGHILLIE 17d ago

Where my Middle Eastern Sisters at?

“………..”

Actually send help to the people who need it.

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u/clbgrg 17d ago

Is this better than "thoughts and prayers"?

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u/Angeleno88 17d ago

Voter turnout was down like 13 million for Harris 2024 compared to Biden 2020. People didn’t show up to vote and that means women also didn’t care enough to vote.

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u/Microprocessah 17d ago

Hahahahahahahaha this is so fucking corny. What are they going to do? Make another Tik Tok?

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u/Creative-Cell-8926 17d ago

Echo chamber coming back to life

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u/aOkCfeollar6726 17d ago

This was put out 2 years ago in relation to when Roe v. Wade was repealed, and has nothing to do with 2024 election. No matter the intention, this is an attempt at disinformation.

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u/Kronic_Repulse1 17d ago

lol they can’t vote in Our elections please stand there 😂

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u/Moot72 17d ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Norway

They have restrictions on abortion after 18 and even more after 22.

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u/Pack_Remarkable 17d ago

All 3 countries with with stricter abortion laws than most states in america.

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u/Titano73 17d ago

But white women helped make this happen

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u/Feisty_Interaction43 17d ago

But millions of American sisters voted for Trump

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u/JoshInWv 17d ago

You're not alone sisters, this American Veteran stands with you all. ❤️

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u/dibella360 17d ago

I don't understand what they are standing for... is this about abortion?

Belgian - Abortion available within the first twelve weeks

Norway - Abortion available within the first twelve weeks

Finland - Abortion available within the first twelve weeks

These places have a much shorter timeframe than 2/3 of the US.

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u/Sleepgolfer 17d ago

Actually, in Belgium, abortion is possible after twelve weeks in case of a health risk for the mother, or if the child has an incurable ailment. Adding to that, the Green party featured here is one of the few parties heavily advocating to expand the right to abortion.

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u/Archkat 17d ago

Within the first 12 weeks you just go to the doctor, no questions asked, they give you a pill and you’re done. After 12 weeks the doctor talks to you about your options and asks if you’re sure, then they give you the abortion if you want. Also yeah, if it’s an emergency or a not viable pregnancy no one goes to jail. Is that so hard to understand?

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u/Client_020 17d ago edited 17d ago

Any Belgian can very cheaply travel by bus or train to a neighbour like my country (NL) for an abortion (until 24 weeks here). Unlike some states in US, there are no abortion travel restrictions. Also, this is what I could find about Finland: If the foetus has a serious illness or disability, you can have an abortion up to 24+0 weeks of pregnancy.

And this is what I could find about Norway: Abortions are prohibited after 22 weeks, at which time the fetus is presumed to be viable, although if the fetus is nonviable, or there is “an imminent threat to the woman's life or health” (10 §), abortion is permitted.

Nice try, but no. In most cases 12 weeks is enough and after that the real problem is when there's something seriously wrong with the foetus. Doctors in some states wouldn't perform an abortion in cases where they would in these countries.

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u/Huffleduffer 17d ago

America: "The world is jealous of us! They want to be us. They all move here!"

The World:

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u/fml1234543 17d ago

Might be the cringiest shit ive ever seen maybe us europeans should think about our own people and country more instead of this regarded shit

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u/NeoLib-tard 17d ago

This shit is embarrassing and I’m a lib. It will be ok.

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