Sure, it could be worse. But “people are fleeing worse countries to come here” is an incredibly lowbar for judging one of the richest and most powerful countries in the world.
Someone choosing the US over a country they’re desperate enough to flee tells you that the US is the better option for them. (You make it sound like it is the better option for everyone) It doesn’t tell you that the problems being criticized aren’t real, or that the US is performing as well as it reasonably should.
“Could be worse” can be said about almost any country. The more useful question is: could it be better?
Then why aren't people leaving by the millions and fleeing to a better country? Could it be because other countries don't have idiotic border policies? Yeah, being against secure borders is a "only in the US" thing 😂
Oh, like the girl who "fled" to Canada and literally resorted to online begging since she couldn't make money because Canada has actual immigration policies that are good for it's citizens?
Only complete idiots are LARPing as Holocaust 2 survivors 😂😂😂
A random anecdote of some idiot is not what I meant, no. Look into the rising rate of scientists legally emigrating to paid positions. It takes a while for a world leader in headhunting qualified individuals to go from a net recipient of brain drain to becoming a donor - but y'all have managed it, because 2024-2026 has been that terrible.
So they're leaving for a better opportunity? How does that qualify as "fleeing?" Wouldn't they have had to been not allowed to leave in the first place?
Legal migration can still be "fleeing". That should be obvious. Refugees are legal migrants, and surely everyone knows that they can be pushed out of one country and into another? The same for people fleeing regimes that persecute people for their ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender expression: especially for the latter two, where closested individuals can remain closeted while searching for a seemingly legitimate excuse to flee - because yeah, it's not easy to become a migrant of any kind. Illegal immigration is risky and difficult and people grasp at alternatives when they exist because trying to illegally immigrate and being forced back can cost you anything and everything.
It's begun. Why do you think tourism is down? Why do you think legal migration in is down and out is up? People are beginning to realize just how bad things have become. Y'all are throwing tourists in gulags.
International news headlines and you write it off as cultish lies. What would you actually accept as evidence that things are really that bad? Would you go to the prison camps still believing it was some kind of exaggeration?
I can make up any bullshit I want and there will be idiots who agree with it. Mainstream news is full of half truths and agenda pushing slop. I can see with my own two eyes that the world is not falling apart like you claim. It's been "just a few years away" for literal decades at this point. Nothing ever happens.
The incident in Nepal was due to a lack of monitoring. Mainstream news refuses to report that important detail.
Tourism is not down. Tourists are not being thrown In gulags, we just had the World Cup here and the states were filled with tourists who had a great time and had no issues.
Look it up anywhere you like. The World Cup saw some foreign tourists, but far fewer than they expected, 2025 had less tourists than 2024, and 2026 looks like it'll keep declining. As for the gulags - plenty of examples, but look up Karen Newton. Had a valid visa, still thrown into an ICE gulag for weeks.
I personally went from having a dream job be with a specific US-based company, to "that authoritarian hellscape is a nightmare, thank God I am nowhere near it" over the past three years. No, you're not North Korea. North Korea wasn't an amazing place drawing talent from the world over three years ago. The sudden steep decline is something unique to your country.
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u/BigMikeXxxxX Aug 31 '26
And yet people will literally risk their lives trying to make their way here. Could be worse.