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Consider the economic burden and complete lifestyle change to necessitate that.
by yolesaber 10y ago
Consider the economic burden and complete lifestyle change to necessitate that.
- sneak 10y agoI did; before, during, and after doing just that.
- qzxvwt 10y agoThe burden for some may be too much for leaving the country to be a more viable option than staying and fighting for change. Also some would argue that you can't run forever.
- mynameislegion 10y agoRunning from the USA would mean you run to another country which probably has the same proportion (or worse) of people that mindcrime is complaining about.
- sneak 10y agoI'm not running any more than someone who moved from e.g. Detroit to Manhattan (something I did in 2006). Nations are terrible, leaky abstractions (intended to make you feel proud of things you have not done and hate people you have not met) and their use is discouraged. Fighting for change against cowardly authoritarians themselves armed with machine guns and drones (like the Department of Homeland Security) is pointless without your own weapons, and I do not wish to take up arms. Anything less is ineffective, as Snowden and al-Awlaki and Nacchio (and perhaps Obama) have shown us.
- seibelj 10y agoSneak, which country did you move to?
- sneak 10y agoI have lived in Berlin since 2008. Regardless of what laws are on the books of the respective countries, the state interferes in my day-to-day life vastly less in Germany than in the United States, and the interactions I do encounter are generally way, way less brain damaged than the idiocy perpetrated continuously by the TSA, idiot American cops, et al.