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Cake day: March 9th, 2025

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  • Hm. I’ve seen her paperwork mentioned a few times, maybe they’ve stopped writing it because they think everyone knows now. I remember getting so annoyed at “DNA, the building blocks of life” but it really was new information to a lot of people. Honestly, the paperwork issue is what terrifies me. I had that same “paperwork” style issue maybe 20 years ago, and I’m so glad they just denied me entry.

    I haven’t had any recent interactions, but if your family is white US citizens, I doubt there will be a problem. If they are pending on any immigration status, I would suggest they contact a lawyer before crossing the border.







  • Um. This isn’t really an outlier leadership anymore. It’s happened twice, and the vote in favor of it got bigger rather than smaller. Trump campaigned on doing this, and his vote share increased. A large proportion of Americans clearly want America First and America Alone, and maybe they don’t understand the consequences of that, but that’s what they want. I’m not saying the US is going to collapse, way too big of a bet to make, but to say no one will surpass the US in the near term… I dunno. I think you might be getting caught in American exceptionalism.

    I think the world is reorienting itself. It’s going to be very painful for us, but we’ll get through it. And America will rattle its sabers and dream of Empire.


  • Even if the new country is a convenient tax haven, does the new country have educated population, large workforce, good infrastructure, good rule of law?

    Does the US? Rule of law is failing. Larger workforces exist elsewhere. The education system is being systematically defunded. The infrastructure has been falling apart for years and I’m pretty sure the money for rebuilding was stopped in Feb.







  • The motivation is what I really want to know. Given that it was just some random person, I can only hope she figured they’d never find him? So many crimes go unsolved, it’s surprising they found this random man with a truck— unless she actually remembered his license plate or something, but that would indicate it was a lot less random. Maybe this wasn’t as random as she’s saying, maybe she got in a road rage incident with him…

    I guess it’s because I’m not the kind of person who’d do this, but I just don’t understand why someone would. If you want the social media “clout,” presumably for a gofundme or something, you don’t need to go to the police about it. Even if you thought you had to, a super vague report would probably lead to a cold case that would waste everyone’s time, but at least no one would go to jail. If you were truly mentally ill and delusional, you probably wouldn’t admit even to yourself that it didn’t happen.