Good thing they have four armed goons for a fucking 12 year old.

It’s fucking wild to me how so many people willingly signed over their privacy so blatantly.

It’s always a grift.

He was a socialist. Because a capitalist could never be kind.

It’s so bizarre seeing people capitulate to toddler tantrums. We’re all being held hostage by an ipad kid.

I seriously cannot picture this happening. More of Trump’s dementia addled Twitter rambling. Even the puppets pulling his strings wouldn’t want this.

I mean, crazier shit has happened, but I see the US going full Handmaid’s Tale long before I see them invading a self-governed nation full of almost exclusively white people.

My money would be on Russia making that play before the US.

Just took a look at Costa Rica’s residency requirements:

• Pensionado (Retiree): $1,000+/month pension.
• Rentista (Fixed Income): $2,500+/month from investments/business.
• Investor: $150,000+ investment in real estate, stocks, etc.
• Nómada Digital (Digital Nomad): $3,000+/month income from foreign sources.

Sigh…

I do think “digital nomad” options are fairly new for a number of countries and that may be my best bet. My field doesn’t really have virtual jobs, but my wife’s does.

That has been what I’ve found. Over 35, no degree, no savings? lol get fucked.

Best I’ve been able to find is Uruguay, but languages have always been really hard for me.

My parents refused to buy me this shit so I just haunted thrift stores for shit other parents made their kids get rid of.

How did you find a pic of me in high school??

Good. Fuck 'em.

The wild thing is the American southwest. California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas . . . all of that was literally Mexico.

People drew imaginary lines and said “You’re an American citizen if you’re born here, but not if you’re born there”. When it’s the same goddamned people.

We call Dine people in El Paso Navajo Native Americans. We call the exact same ethnic group 20 miles south in Cuidad Mexican foreigners.

nazi is when nationalism?

Literally yes.

I’ve never been banned, but I’ve gotten a “warning” just for reporting numerous posts a person made threatening trans people.

I knew I needed to move on.

Don’t want to hear a single motherfucker say we can’t afford social safety nets in this country with how much they’re throwing at the Gestapo.

I think this misses how horrifically expensive this avenue would be. I’m not trying to dismiss that this is a viable avenue for some people, but those people have more financial, social, physical, and mental capital than the majority of trans persons.

When you are given a route to asylum, you have protections and can apply for assistance. You can’t do that as a tourist.

So many of us live paycheck to paycheck and, if we sold everything that won’t fit in a suitcase, we could barely afford the plane ticket.

We have to make day-by-day analyses and weigh the options. Right now, I’m choosing a semi-stable roof over my head and saving every penny I can manage. My only alternative at this point is to choose homelessness in a foreign country, hoping that I don’t get deported back here with no means to rebuild what I’ve lost.

Being homeless and marginalized in the US is not a viable option. I’ve literally done that before.

I have disabilities, too. Being trans, older, disabled, and poor is shit. It sucks being seen as the “undesirables” globally.

How you doin’?

No, fellow comrade. I am an authentic human being. I enjoy chewing and touching grass.

I wish I could afford to flee to California. It’s night and day from this shithole state I’m stuck in.

I’d still prefer to be out of the US entirely.