Yep, it’s pretty difficult.

If you have spare money tho, and like the cold, anyone is free to move to Svalbard, which Norway owns. They have internet. It’s easier to get housing tho if you start a business which, to be fair, there’s technically very little competition there.

Otherwise honestly at this point there’s some decent South America countries you can go to, and aren’t run by neo Nazis like the states are now.

If you know Spanish. If you know French, you can probably get to France more easily through South American France (/j)

More like hopefully I’m wrong. I don’t think I am, but I hope to be.

You sure it wasn’t a chlorhexidine mouthwash?

Possibly true, but also a lot of the reports for issues caused by cocaine use lump cocaine with all of its derivatives, including things like crack cocaine. Rarely is pure cocaine affordably sold in the black market.

It would be as fair as combining statistics for oxycodone and tramadol.

I don’t think cocaine is as dangerous as it’s usually thought of from what I’ve read. Still dangerous enough to be age restricted and regulated for sure, but also in the right doses about as harmful as cigarettes (except cigarettes also harm those nearby)

And the risk of alcohol and cars dramatically increases your risk of death and yet…

Just wanted to point out, of the three you mentioned, cocaine is still used in medicine, especially in dentistry. You may in fact even have used an analog yourself that’s pretty common: Lidocaine

I burnt out long ago when I saw Democrats being full rightwing and most Americans being “enlightened centrists” doing shit. For me the tipping point was the Supreme Court stealing the election from Al Gore.

But I think what was most frustrating of all was the years of being called am extremist by most when pointing out the Democrats weren’t stopping fascism and later that Trump would be the end of democracy during his first term. I remember so many fucking people saying that taking out Trump by any means possible was “extreme”, only to see some of those same people now wish for the exact same damn thing when it’s much more difficult to do so.

I’m glad I left that country years ago. Ultimately the reason there’s a lack of unions, justice, and more there is because it’s a country full of broken people, ruled by broken people.

Many immigrants thought it was great simply because they weren’t being actively hunted to be killed or no longer dealt with unaffordable food (like my parents). They came from even worse countries at the time and when the USA wasn’t that bad, so they keep quiet and just try to live on, and just accept injustice because it’s all they’ve ever known. And the natively born there either are deluged with propaganda so they never pull the wool out of their eyes and never taught to think critically or are systematically broken down into poverty, injustice, and violence so they lose hope.

I don’t think Americans will do what’s right, even when only one path is now left open. But maybe I’m wrong, and like the old quote they’ll do the right thing at the last moment when they realize they have no more choices.

Either way, it doesn’t directly affect me anymore. I tried fighting back, but a small group can’t fix a broken people. Maybe completely shattering them is what’s needed instead.

In the meantime, I’ll keep helping those seeking help where I can, especially the 🟦🌸⬜🌸🟦 seeking to leave to safety.

Imagine saying that with a straight face with one side has just declared they want to very actively partake in the genocide and just do the job themselves.

This is like saying giving a murderer a knife is the same as going in with a machine gun yourself.