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Why Leaving the US Is the New American Dream [video]

by dragonbonheur on 4/19/24, 5:53 AM with 3 comments

• by 082349872349872 on 4/19/24, 6:18 AM

  Call me cynical, but I doubt anyone who needs to watch a video is actually going to emigrate. My question to distinguish dreamers from actual potential emigrants: "which embassies have you talked with?"

• by barfbagginus on 4/19/24, 8:06 AM

  The new American dream is post work, post capitalism, and the queer autonomous revolution. Be gay, automate all the things, but refuse to benefit capital or empire.

• by Terr_ on 4/19/24, 6:42 AM

  Interesting narrative... but where are the statistics to back it up? [0]

  FWIW, I ask that as an American who moved to Hong Kong for 10 years before returning some years after the handover to Chinese control.

  [0] And no, not just graphs of people who claim they'll emigrate if the Wrong Guy Gets Elected, because history shows most never will.