Replying to @shift_alt_delete_15 Every hour you spend attending council meetings and filing FOIA requests is an hour you're not spending living your actual life. That's the trade-off this comment is asking you to make. Permanent vigilance in exchange for basic safety and functioning infrastructure. And the worst part? It doesn't even work. You can do everything right. Attend every meeting. Submit every comment. Track every dollar. And the system will still fail you. Because individual oversight can't fix systemic collapse. You're bailing water on a sinking ship with a teaspoon. Meanwhile, your kids are growing up. Your marriage needs attention. Your mental health is deteriorating. Your one precious life is passing. And you're spending it auditing budgets and documenting patterns of neglect. I left because I realized the cost of staying wasn't just money or safety. It was time. And time is the one thing I can't get back. If you think constant legal engagement is the solution, great. You're in the right country. I chose a country where I can just live without having to lawyer my way through every interaction with the government. Link in bio if your time feels more valuable than oversight. 🆘🇺🇸
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I just wanted to address this comment that came in on one of my videos talking about leaving the United States. This comment that is definitely cut off because it's too long to fit on the screen. She is talking about how every American owes it to America and their fellow Americans to be so civically involved that we are giving up our time to go to meetings, fight legislation, be this active civic participant in a way that makes it a jaw. I just have to say my life is way more valuable than spending it doing that kind of nonsense. I did not come to this earth to fight these fake problems on a constant basis in a way that is absolutely mind-numbing because you take two steps forward and it's five steps back. And this is not what I think that anybody would think that life is meant to be. Just because you can do those things does not mean that you should do those things. And so what I would suggest for anyone who thinks that they should fight and be part of the solution, I will say I did that for 20 plus years. I did everything from working on campaigns to joining my local neighborhood council. My husband joined the local fire council. We were part of the tiniest solutions that you could possibly have within our immediate community because we thought that was the answer. That was the way that we were going to affect change where it really mattered for us. And turns out we couldn't. We tried our best, but we couldn't affect change even on those micro levels because it's too corrupt. It's too much of a mess. There's too many people with terrible ideas to just continue on with the status quo. And so therefore you should not waste your life. I fully, fully with my full chest will tell you this is a waste of your life to spend it with this kind of level of involvement in all of this stuff. It is far more valuable to yourself, your children, and future generations to simply just go have a happy life. I think one of the best things that I am doing for humanity is not just teaching Americans how they can leave the United States. It's just me personally being a happy person going to a place where I feel safe and calm and connected. That is all that I can do in this world is myself be a happy person. And if that affects happiness around me, wonderful. That's what I want. Happy people create more happy people. Not all this nonsense of we must do every little thing to be a check and balance on this government. That's a mess. Don't spend your life doing that. Please, please don't.
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