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How are you stuck in the US?
This is always the Libertarian shitpost response: "you're free to do what you want" because you don't recognize economic coercion. It's a perfectly OK form of limiting freedom. Fuck off.
How am I stuck in the country?
My government won’t issue me a passport.
Aside from the extreme financial and planning difficulties involved with emigrating, It’s exceedingly difficult for trans individuals to get a passport right now. The department of state has been destroying identity documents of anyone who is currently or has previously requested an official gender change and they are not providing any recourse or remedy to the issue.
Just a “please leave or you will be arrested” when asked what can I do to get a passport..
Jfc. Unbelievable. Well, very believable. Scumbags.
Money.
Also, people tend to have things like friends and family.
If I could gather all my friends and family with me and move out of this backwards ass shithole, I would. It's not that simple.
I don't have the financial wherewithal to pick up and move to another country. If I did I'd be out of here.
Don't listen to that guy. Canadians know Americans, and we know some of you are fine. Hopefully it gets easier to come here soon enough.
you could go to vietnam probably
Oh yeah, because some dude working at a DeMoines McDonalds is really tearing other countries apart.
Get real, homie.
90% lol you can't even get 50% to vote
I don't give a shit what you should or shouldn't care about.
Damn, you sure are good at getting people to rally around your point.
Keep it up, HOMIE. You’re really changing minds.
And by the way, since you’re so god damned self righteous, I didn’t vote for Trump OR Kamala. So what “uniparty” did I vote for? Fucking reactionary leftists destructing their own, that’s you.
Homie.
but the person you are talking to didn't. That's the very premise of this conversation. Please find another justification, homie.
what is wrong with you
Screw you. The peasant is not the imperialist.
@harsh From your values, sounds like I would welcome you to my country.
Oh, so there's not another Country that'll just pick up your tab and give you free food, a phone, a car, help you get a place to live and let you have one of their citizens jobs? Got it!
Have you ever considered how expensive it is to emigrate to another nation? And then there’s the acceptance part, which anyone who has gone through it can tell you, is VERY difficult.
The uncertainty surrounding it is just far too much for most people.
Apart from the cost, logistics, finding a job…emigrating is terrifyingly huge.
That's exactly my point. America is the greatest country on earth. You can't just waltz into other countries and get the help that you can get here. Yes, right now things are changing in that respect. We've been taken advantage of in a huge way and it's simply not sustainable.
You could not more wrong. American capitalism is the worst form of capitalism in the world. It is only attractive to people from truly desperate situations.
You know what? Go fuck yourself.
I could tell you why I would choose to stay where I am even if I had the resources to leave. It is actually possible for some of us to put together a decent life for our families and try to brighten the lives of those around us.
…Even though our government is somewhere between evil and self-destruct, and our culture is somewhere between “fuck you got mine” and “die woman/jew/brown/LGBT+/other!”
And yeah I’m a straight white dude, how did you guess? :/
But anyway, I’ve lived in the same house for 17 years. It is a 10 minute walk to the elementary/middle school my son will attend for the next 5 years. It is a 6 minute drive to the office for the best job I’ve ever had. We are active in our community and school district, and have some wonderful friends. All my son’s grandparents are within a reasonable drive (but not too close). All my nieces and nephews are similarly close by.
It’s a small modest house that we’ve made our own. In the past 5 years we’ve done some major renovations, repairs, and remodeling. We fenced in the back yard which is great for our kid and our multiple dogs. And our tortoise. Oh yeah, we’re animal lovers. And that includes a koi pond that I built in the back yard that’s literally part of my mental health self-care.
Moving to some place that seems less insane right now would materially change my entire life, not just which government I have to live under.