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- cross-posted to:
- world@lemmy.world
- hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in. The Trump administration has hailed the exodus—negative net migration—as the fulfillment of its promise to ramp up deportations and restrict new visas. Beneath the stormy optics of that immigration crackdown, however, lies a less-noticed reversal: America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers, replanting themselves and their families in lands they find more affordable and safe.
Doug Ford is far dumber than Trump.
I don’t think he’s low-IQ-dumb at all. I think he’s the shrewdest and most effective political manipulator Ontario has seen in my entire politically aware life. I think he has certain pathological drives and values that cause him to do things that any decent and informed person would find entirely contrary to the public good, but I don’t think he does any of them because he doesn’t know better.