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  • Visa’s will be an issue in Vietnam. Uness you plan to live there full time (somehow??), learning Vietnamese probably isn’t worth it as it’s the only place that speaks it (unlike say Spanish or French)

    Next door in Camboida, you can stay as long as you want. T visa and just extend. Philippines is mostly easier, English is widely used but its sea locked, and it’s one of the most disater prone places on the planet and while the islands are amazing, travel is a bitch. Thailand is difficult with visas as well. Malaysia I know nothig of. Laos is an interestig place but super poor.

    None of these places give you the same rights as citizens and they’re all either very difficult, or very expensive to gain permenant resident status or citizenship.





  • Any of these solutions are similar to someone coming into my home and telling me how to raise my own kids.

    I’m not aware of any country in the world that doesn’t do that ?

    Australia has cumpolsory education for children, doesn’t allow smoking, doesn’t allow alcohol consumption, doesn’t allow children to drive, doesnt allow them to participate in porn, doesn’t allow them to have sex, enforces vaccination and a litany of other directives that over ride parental choice.

    Many of the above are considerd harmful for children, like a swathe of experts say about chikdrens exposure to social media.

    Some places in the US you are arrested for child endangerment for allowing your child to walk to school and the US continues to condone regularly shooting their children in the 1000s…

    What I, some random on Lemmy thinks should be irrelevant, this should not be a “do your own research and go with your gut” sort of nonsense, thats what gives us RFK Jr.

    What a majority of clinical experts do think is important. I was just pointing out the blantant flaw in your argument.












  • You’d need a majority in Congress and a super majorty in the Senate to be successful. Both houses currently support Trump. He was impeached twice in his first term but not removed because of a lack of a Senate super majority.

    He’s still very popular, many peooke are disappointed bevase he’s not more aggressive.

    An example, reading some comments in the FT about the No Kings protest and many of the comments said Trump should arrest all the protestors for being commie traitors

    US Politics is absurdist theatre for the rest of the world


  • Mistake ? No, the laws of nature will prevail, we’ll be gone eventually and life will prosper. We thrived for >100k years, in the last couple thousand most of us have made everything worse. Muchof that was ignorance so it’s somewhat understandable but since the 1970s we’ve been well aware.

    It is bemusing to see a species self aware enough to understand it’s destroying it’s own home and literally do everything it can to make it worae.

    Nature has time, billions of years. Inequality is our greatest act of stupidity, from that leads all the other stupidity (nation states, agriculture, roads etal) eg you can’t have 5 billion people driving cars, so no one drives cars, you can’t have 8 billion people flying so no one can etc). Eventually we’ll drown under a pile of our own waste. Climate change is I think the solution to the human problem (the collapse of “civilisation” not human extinction). before pollution etc but perhaps nuclear annihilation will do us in before cliamte change does ?