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   Ro (are0h@ubiqueros.com)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 01:40:02 JST Ro

   I've been quiet for the past week because I've been on the road. I'll talk about where I'm going later, but I've decided to leave the US because my growing disgust with this country has been a dominant theme for the last few months.
   
   I lived overseas a few years ago, and that experience really put how despicable the US is in sharp focus. When I came back to deal with family issues, I knew I wouldn't stay, but I decided to live in Cali for a bit and got comfortable.
   
   This past year has made it clear that I need to escape the US for a while. Between the absurdity of finding employment, unprovoked violence from law enforcement, and now, white vigilantes carrying hate crimes every other day, I need to get back to my plan of leaving the US for good.
   
   I love traveling, so being back out on the road has been refreshing, but the larger context is that I can't ignore my growing repugnance with the place of my birth.
   
   So I'm making some changes.

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     Ro (are0h@ubiqueros.com)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 01:39:59 JST Ro

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     I don't want anything to do with the fiction of the American Dream.
     
     I'm absolutely nauseated by the way hate and discrimination have been normalized to the point people in the US really believe 'that's just how people are.'
     
     I hate having to constantly justify myself to people who do not have a fourth of the talent and experience I have simply because I do not look like them.
     
     I detest the idea of my resources being used to further the murderous US regime across the globe.
     
     I'm tired of being disgusted all the time.

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     Ro (are0h@ubiqueros.com)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 01:40:00 JST Ro

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     And to be frank, I've been looking into plausible ways to give up my US citizenship.
     
     I've been checked out from the American experience for a while, and I don't want anything to do with how this country operates, especially when it comes to using my tax money to 1. violently oppress people who look like me and 2. contribute to constant conflicts globally that terrorize Black and Brown people.
     
     I'll never deny that I'm an American by birth, but I've considered myself a citizen of the world for a long time, and that perspective is just directly opposed to what the US is and has been since it was created.
     
     But I know I just need to cut the cord with the US.
     
     This has never been a healthy place for me, and I want to give people like me options for their well-being.

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