What good reasons are there to continue living in the US? The only one I can think of is family.
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I keep being told the 2nd amendment. Apparently for some people it's the only thing that matters.
What would the second amendment do if the samourai team was in the US? Nothing.
I don't know. I lived in many beautiful countries and not owning a gun was never one of my problems. I'm just repeating what I've been seeing on nostr and more so on X. For example when people talk about moving to El Salvador "but do the have a 2nd amendment law?"
Apparently some people rather live a poor and miserable life with a gun than a happy and wealthier (and perhaps even safer one) without one. We live in a weird world.
I’m sure you can find a way to legally get a gun in El Salvador. And I’m sure the government in the US can (and does) find ways to take your guns here.
Probably. Like I've said, I never needed one not even in my 4 years in Bangkok. But yeah, if I was living in a country where almost everyone else has a gun I'd probably get one (or three) too.
0% income tax! That’s amazing
40% tax: land of the free
0% tax: no constitution can’t live there
I wonder what are the downsides, if any to living there
The only one I can think of is the US giving them some democracy if you know what I mean
That’s a pretty bad downside 😂
Yeah you’d probably wanna leave at that point lmao you can see something like that coming I think. There are American taxpayers that live there and the government wouldn’t just start killing off their tax cattle. I had some American friends in Gaza in October and I was worried they’d die during the attacks. But Israel was announcing where they would attack and warning people to evacuate. Seemed weird but once my friends left, Israel let loose and stopped giving those warnings.
I’m glad your friends got out before everything went to shit
I just can’t shake the intuition that the U.S. is going to weaponize its powerful fiat / tha printer against its own people.
The empire will have to pull out of the rest of the world and they lose power and debt goes exponential. Typically the next step after reduction of empire-size is resource extraction and domination / capture of the empires own populace…
No certainties but I really feel something along those lines will emerge in the next 10 years. In the U.S. and other fading western nation states.
*as they lose power