[FRIAM] SCOTUS

[Steve Smith]

Seems like a good time for a Handmaids Tale spinoff set in "Gilead", 
maybe a prequel that starts with today's ruling?   Add in the gun-stuff 
and maybe it is a mashup between Handmaids and HIgh-Castle?  Throw in 
some masks and you get get a dose of Watchmen?

On 6/24/22 6:16 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> Tom-
>
> Even before the NY CC Gun decision and now Roe v Wade, I have had more 
> than a few people asking me similar questions.
>
> I don't have an easy answer.
>
> Well, the answer to whether *any* northern European wants to enfold us 
> as refugees is probably "not even"... yet I know plenty who have 
> expatriated themselves to such places without becoming permanent 
> residents (much less citizens).  Maybe buying a villa (or whole 
> village) in an (otherwise abandoned) village for EU$1 (anecdotally 
> something like that happens in Italy and maybe Greece and Portugal?) 
> will be enough of a stake to be permanent resident?
>
> BTW I find the Scandinavian (at least Norway, Denmark, Sweden) more 
> appealing due to the relatively lower population density and high 
> natural resource context, but only if I am being a selfish-greedy 
> fellow who wants to avoid my own discomfort more than I want to make 
> the world a better place.
>
> A new friend/colleague I met here is 75 and was raised in NYC but left 
> the US as conscription raised it's head in the 60s.   He came to NL 
> and eventually naturalized, but has lived in Ireland and Iran for 
> significant amounts of time.
>
> I'm still interested, myself, in what the implications are of mass 
> defection from the US (or just red-states) by Progressives? I believe 
> many expats around the world maintain (thinly justified) voting 
> registration in the US, but that seems a bit questionable in several 
> ways?    I'm also interested in the opposite flow... what if enough 
> Blue folks purple up some Red states to shift the Senate to something 
> more representative?
>
> This is fairly abstract even to me as I have plenty of red-tinged 
> neighbors and family that I can't even begin to shift purple even if I 
> talk myself blue (or purple) in the face with them.   Most are 
> probably dancing in glee around the Abortion and the Gun debates.   
> Actually, my sister and her husband are not pro-gun at all and 
> probably as pro-choice as they are pro-life, yet somehow they voted 
> for Trump *at least* once!   They were also pro-mask/vaxx...   hmmm?   
> I think they just like hypercapitalistic extractive industries and 
> "owning Libs"...
>
> - Steve
>
> On 6/23/22 8:37 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
>> Steve:
>> Given today's reports of the SCOTUS decision on guns, do you think 
>> the Dutch would accept two refugees from the U.S.?
>> TJ in Malta
>>
>> ==
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