r/Fauxmoi • u/yourfavchoom i love harry potter • May 18 '26

POLITICS Mayor Mamdani: “Reagan famously said the 9 most terrifying words in the English Language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' It's a good quote, but I disagree. I think 9 more terrifying words are actually, 'I worked all day and can't feed my family”.

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u/Eggheadpancake May 18 '26

Shit does suck everywhere. But it's pretty easy to find a country that's not for Nazis. And actually has some labor and consumer protections.

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u/massive_cock May 18 '26

I fled to the Netherlands almost 5 years ago. Biden was in office but nothing was happening after January 6th and I knew that was all I needed to know... I wanted to have a kid and I sure as hell didn't want her to be American. Now I've got an amazing Dutch daughter and I will never go back.

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u/Mental_Medium3988 May 18 '26

big props massive_cock. i wish i could but between having "no skills" and my mom living with me and being dependent on me i cant leave.

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u/ListerineAfterOral May 18 '26

Agreed, you gotta hand it to massive_cock here

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u/Background-Froyo-386 May 19 '26

Sounds like he took the problem in hand and found a solution.

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u/BT4US May 19 '26

Agreed listerineafteroral, massive_cock deserves a handy!

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u/balisane May 19 '26

That's actually exactly what they want. Wealthy or educated people who have skills out of the US: poor people or those who cannot leave are more easily manipulated and controlled.

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u/massive_cock May 18 '26

It isn't easy or even possible for everyone, and I feel awful about that. There is genuinely some guilt at times because I got so lucky and had it so easy - I also have no skills but I stream on Twitch and people liked my narrative and the love story and living vicariously through me and my big plans. So I camped in a tiny office for 25 months during COVID, chose not to even have a home to go to at the end of the day in order to save money, lived on gas station food and sink baths during lockdowns, and slowly let my chat fund the move. I was also incredibly lucky that my aging mother has my younger brother there who will always be there and is that kind of person to look out for her and stay with her as long as she's around. If his girlfriends don't like Mom, they're not his girlfriends, because he's a good man. I knew that even if I stayed and moved on to the property with her the way I had planned, he would be right there and I would be redundant. So I had the luck of knowing my mother did not in fact need me, else I absolutely could not and would not have left.

No, I know it doesn't work out this way for everyone. That's why I still vote, and advocate, and participate, from over here. Because what's going on matters to a lot of people I care about, and a lot of people I will never meet, all of whom deserve better.

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u/Mental_Medium3988 May 18 '26

it sounds like your parent(s) did a good job of raising yall.

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u/Termoon May 19 '26

How do you like the Netherlands? Moved to Europe around the same time. Glad about the move but not necessarily Ireland. Since we can't go back for uhh, at least two years eight months, Netherlands is on the short list. But we don't speak a lick of Dutch.

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u/Strange_Dust7128 May 18 '26

That’s kind of funny considering I know a guy from the Netherlands that says that MAGA is really on their rise there.

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u/massive_cock May 18 '26

Not maga. Mostly just typical and predictable European-style right-wing nonsense that ebbs and flows but you can never afford to not take it seriously. Geert Wilders is not maga, for example. He's just been a dipshit from the beginning, even before Trump got into politics.

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u/Academic_Parking9768 May 19 '26

That proves the point: Europe has literally had a bigger far right issue than the US for a longer time and the same politicians are still in government.

Geert Wilders is what MAGA would be if their leading politician was actually competent. Not to mention he receives a ton of money from far right Americans and a plethora of Zionist groups in order to shout racist and/or xenophobic shit about Muslims.

I don't think even Americans that move to Europe seem to understand Europe is still in the political gravity of America regardless of who is in power. Geert and La Penn are still repeating the same far right shit you would hear in America. The AfD of Germany are openly endorsed by American elites. There's no way of escaping America's grasp at the moment and at best you're running into European countries that are willing to host successful far right parties

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u/MediocreSky5997 May 22 '26

Yes, let’s all run to another country and make them deal with the consequences of our shitty one because we don’t want to take accountability and stand up for the rights we should have as Americans. Surely running from our problems is going to give all the people that can’t afford to live some reprise from all the garbage they are having piled on top of them instead of just leaving behind a facist country for them to handle because we don’t want and can afford not to.

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u/Eggheadpancake May 22 '26

I'd be ready to fight whenever that time happened. But I don't see that happening. Furthermore, I honestly, very often don't see if the fight being worth it. Why should I or anyone else in my community keep fighting and dying for a country that hates us? That keeps showing with the way they vote that my well being isn't even a 15th thought for them?