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BizarreByte

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2021-10-07

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  • > You say that, until you start spending those hundred dollar bills on therapy.

    The only people who wouldn't prefer that are ones who haven't endured true poverty.

    I have little sympathy for those folks unhappy with their conventionally successful lives when that same kind of life allowed me to escape. When you grow up without basic needs being met they come off as having a severe lack of perspective.

    I mean sure I hate my job, but I like having heat in the winter more than I hate my job.

  • Same for me as well. I've also gone as far as moving any paying business away from the US. I have completely moved off paid US services as of about a month ago to Canadian or EU equivalents.

  • > I’ve been to the U.S. a hundred times and nothing has really changed to make me blink at continuing to go.

    Let's hope you never get unlucky, it only takes one border agent having a bad day after all. I've been to the US many, many times and as I said I no longer consider it safe, but we all have different risk tolerance levels.

    > when it’s objectively far safer than visiting any all-inclusive hotspot in the Caribbean

    I don't visit those places either.

    Cry to someone else about how it's all media based fear while ignoring the very real changes in attitudes, policy, and atmosphere, but I personally see no reason to take the risk when I could...just stay in Canada and be safe.

  • Again I do not care. The US has done more than enough to instill fear in Canadians like me.

    Would you travel to a country where its leader is constantly making threats against your country, some as serious as repeatedly calling for your annexation? The current US administration has made it very clear how it feels about me and my countrymen.

    I don't consider the US safe and I do not need someone to americansplain to me. You aren't exceptional, you're a threat.

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