

Currently shit scared as a gay guy with autism. I studied this, on my own, out of curiosity – how a relatively modern society can commit atrocities upon its own citizens that it deems “lesser”.
In high school, where we had entire chapters of our history books that we focused on for weeks dedicated to things like the civil war and the war of 1812, WWI and WWII were (in my recollection) split between a single chapter titled “The World Wars” or something like that, and anything later was usually glossed over in even briefer fashion (Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War all shared a single chapter. I’m not even sure the Cuban Missile Crisis was given a sentence. But holy fuck did they want you to recount in great detail all the facts and figures of the revolutionary war and civil war, down to excruciatingly painful detail. – I digress, it just irked me then and it still does now).
My point is, nobody chased me down and beat me over the head with a textbook to research the Holocaust and how it happened, nobody made me learn the finer points of going from an economic crisis to an angry little egomaniac getting elected to gas chambers and piles of bodies. We were taught what happened, in the driest fashion, but they never taught us how it happened. For me, nobody had to. I wanted to learn, so that I’d hopefully recognize the signs if they ever happened again. And now I can’t afford to leave on my own, while watching them slowly follow the exact same playbook in almost the exact same way. You start with the most vulnerable people and expand that over time to “everyone you don’t like”, and I have no illusions about being a friend to republicans.
Also, hey, sidebar: anyone else finding the combination of “gutting NOAA funding”, “open air cages”, and “located in Florida, where devastating hurricanes regularly sweep through”, to be something Eichmann would’ve called genius? “Oops, we didn’t have any warning! Awww, shucks, shame about all those un-people we wanted to be rid of!” And the gators take care of the bodies. It’s brilliant, in a way.
my last hope is Canada opens their borders to unskilled/disabled refugees, but I don’t hold out a lot of hope.
at this point I think my faith in other people is too damaged to accept such a thing from anyone I don’t know personally – (and alas, I have no friends up north), but I do hope you rescue someone worth saving. Not all of us didn’t see this coming. Nobody deserves that fate, not a migrant, not someone trans or someone poor or who jaywalked while black or anybody who stepped on that orange rapists bone-spurred toes.
Having said that, you should probably get rid of this comment, as I doubt Canada’s immigration authorities are very keen on marriage fraud, no matter how nice a gesture it may be.