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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 14-Sep-2026 03:18:46 JST Adrianna Tan

   If there is going to be fascism everywhere I prefer to deal with it in English, and preferably somewhere with a lot of immigrant food in spite of the fascism (vs places that don’t have much good immigrant food even without the fascism!

   I would also prefer to be warm

   Mainly I just don’t want to be cold, eat bad food, and have to deal with fascism. Or have to learn a new language I don’t like. The first two would make me give up on life much more easily.

   I could also just try to go back home and wait it out and deal with another kind of authoritarianism. But at least I won’t be cold or sad about food.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 14-Sep-2026 03:29:13 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Rob van Kan

     @edgeofeurope right, and that will be my cue to also go. If I get stuck, I will try to go somewhere with those things because it would point to relative safety.

     I genuinely believe that America is much too large to have exactly the same thing, but there will be other forms of horrors that aren’t just about things like this.

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     Rob van Kan (edgeofeurope@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Sep-2026 03:29:14 JST Rob van Kan

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     @skinnylatte So how many proper Jewish restaurants do you think existed in Berlin in... let's say 1938? The immigrant food is first to go as they will simply start to take assets, and any rights to own businesses, from whoever they deem unworthy to be in their country.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 14-Sep-2026 03:31:18 JST Adrianna Tan

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     There is precedent for this. My grandparents, during the war, spoke of how it was the little nice meals they could scrape together from rations and backyard gardening (you can still grow things in the tropics) that helped them survive several years of Japanese murder and brutality.

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     Viss (viss@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Sep-2026 03:33:10 JST Viss

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     @skinnylatte san diego? :D

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 14-Sep-2026 03:33:10 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Viss

     @Viss on the short list but then I think Mexico is just right there

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     Shaula Evans (shaulaevans@zirk.us)'s status on Monday, 14-Sep-2026 04:45:24 JST Shaula Evans

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     @skinnylatte I hear you.

     For me, going home would add being cold at a level I don't currently want to contemplate, in the context of these calculations.

     I'm always happy to learn a new language, but I think going forward, I would like to live in regions with languages I already speak, or languages in the same language families I already know, or recognized as "easy to learn". Because I love language but the world is hard and I am tired.

     My god, I hope we all live & stay safe.

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     Liminal witch 🧙‍♀️ Sarah (xgebi@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 14-Sep-2026 06:03:53 JST Liminal witch 🧙‍♀️ Sarah

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     @skinnylatte my list is half same and half opposite. If Norway had ok-ish transgender healthcare, I’d love to move to Svalbard. Nice long winters, I could source there also enough Thai recipes, shop in Thai supermarket.

     Did I mention that it’s cold and there’s no sun for like two months?

     (I probably should investigate my family tree around 30 years’ war to figure out who brought those north Swedish genes to Central Europe.)

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 14-Sep-2026 06:06:52 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • BlueBrogues🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

     @BlueBrogues yeah I saw an Aussie protest where they protested foreigners then got Vietnamese food

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     BlueBrogues🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (bluebrogues@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Sep-2026 06:06:53 JST BlueBrogues🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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     @skinnylatte All the Nazis in England go out get drunk and buy a curry on there way home ? 😂 irony is ironic, ironically 🥂