This made me think about a thought I had on my morning walk:

Being governed by the US is like being in a toxic relationship where your partner uses their distrust in you as an excuse to eventually control and manipulate every single thing you do. And they gaslight you into thinking it’s justified, necessary even. The government literally needs to know how much money you make and how and when. And how much time you spend outside of the country and where you go, who you communicate with and the conversations you have. It also tries to make you believe you are a failure for not meeting its expectation of running on the hamster wheel that it created — eating trash, medicating yourself, buying things you don’t need, working 40 hours a week. And just like in a toxic relationship, it’s so hard to see when you’re in it. It’s not until you take a real giant step outside of it and observe what is truly happening that you realize the gravity of it.

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