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Replying to @gram7647 Using global instability as reason to stay in America is like refusing to leave burning building because there's smoke outside. Yes, the world has problems. Every country faces challenges. But there's massive difference between manageable problems in functioning systems and existential crises in collapsing ones. Americans use "everywhere has problems" as rationalization for staying in place that's uniquely dysfunctional among developed nations. It's false equivalence that treats all problems as equally severe when they're demonstrably not. The scale matters. The severity matters. The trend direction matters. And on every meaningful metric, America is outlier in wrong direction among peer nations. This isn't American exceptionalism in reverse where America is worst at everything. It's specific observable reality that America is only developed nation where certain catastrophic problems exist at scale they do. Other countries have political tension. America has armed militias and daily political violence. Different severity. Other countries debate healthcare policy. America has people rationing insulin and dying from preventable illnesses because can't afford treatment. Different severity. Other countries have crime. America has children practicing tactical survival in schools as normal education component. Different severity. Treating these as equivalent because "everywhere has problems" is choosing to stay in worst-case scenario because better scenarios also aren't perfect. That's not rational risk assessment. That's using imperfection elsewhere to justify accepting catastrophe here. The question isn't whether other countries are utopias. They're not. The question is whether they have specific problems that make your life materially worse than those problems would in America. For most people the answer is no, they have different problems that are significantly less severe. When Americans living abroad say they feel safer, they don't mean their country has zero crime. They mean baseline threat level dropped dramatically. When they say healthcare is better, they don't mean it's perfect. They mean it's accessible and won't bankrupt them. The comparison isn't perfection versus chaos. It's high-functioning imperfection versus low-functioning chaos. And Americans keep choosing chaos because imperfection elsewhere feels scarier than familiar disaster. Waiting for world to stabilize before leaving America is waiting for impossible condition. World will always have problems. Question is whether you're staying in place with worst versions of those problems or moving somewhere with manageable versions. The global context isn't getting calmer. But that doesn't mean every location is equally dangerous or dysfunctional. There are still massive quality of life differences between countries and refusing to acknowledge that because "everywhere has problems" is choosing to stay in worst option available. You can wait for perfect safe moment that never comes, or you can acknowledge that while nowhere is perfect, some places are objectively safer and more functional than America right now and act accordingly. Link in bio for people ready to choose manageable problems over catastrophic ones. What problem elsewhere is worse than equivalent problem in America? ๐Ÿ†˜๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

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This commenter says that she's staying in the United States because she's not confident that the whole world isn't gonna go crazy. And I get comments like this constantly. People claim that it's dangerous everywhere. Things are going to shit everywhere, and so then as a result, why not just stay in the United States? But what I want to say is that the rest of the world might be smoldering, but you guys are in a full-on engulfed fire. And it's always better to get out of the damn fire and go to the smoldering if you have a choice. And you do have a choice. You can leave because there are no other countries that are doing active shooter drills. That's you. That is exclusively you. Soda companies make only soda for America because Americans are allowed to have all the toxins. All the other countries have banned tons of toxins, which is why candy is different. Chips are different. Soda's are different. All abroad, they're different. Serials, I mean everything you can think of has less toxins abroad than it does in the United States. So you guys are receiving the worst of the worst because your government allows it. The rest of the world doesn't have to worry about going into medical debt because they get sick. The rest of the world has protections in place if they have a baby and then need to take some time off, shocker that you would want to take time off after having a baby. So when you say, you're not sure that the rest of the world is not going to go crazy, you are misinterpreting the facts and reality. The reality is the rest of the world is pretty much fine. And will things go bad later on because they're following America's lead? Who knows? But why would you want to stay in the dangerous situation now when safe situations exist? That's crazy talk. There are safer places to live than the United States because the United States is ranked 128th in terms of safety. So you can go to most places on this planet and be safer than you are in the United States, but you're choosing to accept the fact that everywhere is bad. And I find that to be very illogical. So for Americans who recognize that there is a continuum and America is on the worst side of most things that you're going to measure, I can help you move abroad. I can help you get out of that chaos and find somewhere that is much more reasonable and safer and freer and calmer and all of the things. So you do not have to be like this commenter and just think that everything is on equal footing. It is simply not there are places that you can go and be happier than the United States.

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