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Her motion also called for a “visa route to allow highly skilled Americans who wish to flee the Trump presidency to come to the UK”.
Speaking to the PA news agency about her motion, the Edinburgh West MP said: “I think if there are people in America who are unhappy with a lot of the things [Trump] is talking about domestically – the LGBT community for example, a lot of minorities – they have skills, we could welcome them here.
“And I think we would be a much more welcoming society for an awful lot of people who are finding America, at the minute, difficult.”
While visas are already available for US citizens, she said the Government should encourage Americans to take up a skilled visa route.
Easy to suppose that the level of skill required to get such a visa might be egregiously high, and it’s easy to be concerned about the direction the UK is heading, but worth mentioning.
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If you have graduated from an ‘elite’ university (there’s a specific list) in the last 5 years, you can apply for a High Potential Individual visa which allows you to stay in the U.K. for up to 2.5 years and can look for a job once you get there (so, you don’t have to have the job first).
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I presume that if anything comes of this motion it will get at least a touch more accessible than that. 
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I am unsure if this has been posted in another thread, but it can go here, too, if so.
This interview is mentioned towards the end of the article…
I have not watched it yet… will do so later.
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Leeja Miller talking about which demographics (in her reading of the news) should get ready to leave the US, on a scale from “U R Fine” to “GTFO”. With an overview of what steps might be advisable.
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Reminds me of this:
Starting at 1:19:45.
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A very powerful article, really puts everything into perspective and helps focus a goal through all this chaos and suffering. I’m sending it to several friends and family.
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Maine farmers came out today to protest the cuts to Food for Schools and other agricultural bills that support Maine farmers. Tractor brigade!
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this was a good read. i do not consider myself a prepper, but i do keep emergency stores of canned food, bottled water and first aid supplies. you know… hurricane prep.
the takeaway i got was that the wiser strategy or survival is collectivism over “rugged individualism”. it truly does make better sense to know your immediate neighbors, take care to help neighbors in times of emergency (like a major storm, or the fascist takeover and collapse of society) rather than bunker down with only supplies for yourself… and guns.
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This is the nature of society. I know a hell of a lot about medicine, herbs, growing food (including canning, dehydrating, pickling, etc), working wood. I know jack shit about mechanical stuff, hunting, fishing and many other topics that would be important. No one has all the knowledge needed to get through a crisis of more than a short period of time. Having a community is absolutely vital.
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Yeah, I think that’s the point… certainly, it’s wise to have supplies on hand in case of emergencies like a hurricane, wildfire, what have you, but long term, hoarding isn’t helpful. Community is…
Yep!
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I’m a proud lefty prepper and it’s good to see acknowledgement that we exist. Like religion, it’s one of those things that seems to have been just assumed to only exist on the right in some weird way. The culture wars and stereotypes have truly screwed everyone over in multiple ways.
As a minor side note in this topic, I hate that my algorithm insists on sending me Republican political content just because I am interested in building a windmill for grinding my corn!
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Totally. Have you ever watched “Alone?”
It’s the manliest men who seem to end up the most shriveled and depressed, despite all their rugged, individual skills.
My favorite season had a young woman who wanted to have a nice time. She made a chair to watch the sunset from, and I think some kind of musical instrument. She was doing fine, but when she found herself dwelling on the monetary prize instead of the overall experience, she tapped out. With food to spare (she foraged a fair bit).
Maybe two days later the last contender tapped out and the winner was named. He was a shadow of his former self. At the reunion/show wrap up, you could see the utter baffled looks on those last guys’ faces when they saw she’d left on her own terms, healthy of body, mind and spirit, and with food to spare.
Not really “community,” but she brought the theme of building something nice into the mix, instead of just seeing it as this ordeal to survive.
(Caveat: though they try to create equal “territories” in that show, in terms of access to resources, it’s always a bit of a gamble. But when I was watching it all the time, I was kind of surprised how much effort everyone put into hunting in lieu of foraging!)
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You’re reminding me of another show: Frontier House.
One of the families kept insisting that they were in danger of real starvation because they weren’t able to eat enough meat, and when given an opportunity to add animals to their homestead chose a cow. They did not do well on multiple levels. I think they even left early.
One of the families did a lot more planting of food, and when given the same opportunity for animals chose chickens and a goat. They did great!
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Putting this here, so I can watch it later!
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