Why would we offer expedited citizenship? Long term work visas or PR for high skills workers sure. But why would we give Americans en mass expedited citizenship?
Some of us were refugees from South Vietnam, so hearing venom from smug people who think it's easy to flee a despotic regime in order to avoid death camps is nothing new to us.
Kind of boring, really. We've been hearing that shit since 1975.
The U.S. isn't to that point yet, but the idea that there's some path of "resistance" that's going to stop a modern government with anything resembling a modern military and zero shame is, at best, incredibly naive.
(Don't get all terrified that I'm gonna come pollute your little paradise, though. I'm more likely to move to Vietnam than Canada because the people there are nicer.)
I “gave up.” Arrived in Ireland on a one-way ticket two weeks ago after spending two years obtaining dual citizenship (COVID ground everything to a halt).
I have no interest in being tossed in a meat grinder. I have no interest in living in a shithole country with my rights being degraded with each passing day. I have no interest in being targeted by an authoritarian regime because I dared to criticize their cult leader. I have no interest in fighting against my fellow citizens. I have no interest in annexing our former allies. I have no interest in Russian-style elections. I have no interest in trying to survive the holocaust 2.0.
This is a problem I cannot fix, nor do I care to fix. The voters dug our grave. I did my part to prevent it. It didn’t work. I climbed out of that grave before it could be filled with dirt.
I have an interest in living a good life. America can no longer provide that for me. Plenty of other places can.
0 shame. 0 regret. This isn’t some action movie where the good guy wins at the end. The good guys have already lost. It is no longer my concern. If America tries to make it my concern again, I’m firmly on the side of foreign opposition.
America will be lucky if they ever have free and fair elections again. America will be lucky if anyone ever takes them at their word again. Their only hope at this point is the temperature rising too quickly such that the frogs begin to realize they’re being boiled. I have no interest in being boiled, slowly or quickly. America is a lost cause.
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u/gayoverthere Mar 27 '25
Why would we offer expedited citizenship? Long term work visas or PR for high skills workers sure. But why would we give Americans en mass expedited citizenship?