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[–]CosmicFarmPrisoner 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

My criteria for areas to move to boiled down to two things: Is its population largely native? Does it still have a native working class?

It was the replacement of American agricultural/blue collar workers with immigrant/illegal labor and overseas industry that sealed our fate. It was the excuse to open the floodgates. That, and the white collar workers/professionals now rely on this cheap, exploitable labor along with low interest loans, and investment portfolios to pretend to be rich: rent-a-maids, pre-made food, yearly vacations, yearly wardrobes, multiple properties, a big primary residence, etc. If they tried to defy the government they would be going against everything that made their way of life possible.

 

Ex-communist Europe is a mixed bag, some like Poland are anti-abortion and misogynist…

I’m not moving to any of those places, but honestly I’m over the abortion issue, and everywhere I’ve been in Europe isn't any more misogynistic than the US. Abortion is no longer a personal issue for me anyways, as I'm sterile.

It's not that I have moral qualms about abortion; to me, humans aren't human beings until they are sapient, and forced organ donation is wrong. However, I don't see abortion provided by medical institutions staying accessible. The pro-choice side has always had weak arguments and inconsistent lines drawn. Women will need to learn how to perform them in private, or get comfortable with accidental and inexplicable infant & young child deaths going back up. Guess which course of action will be more popular.

 

Japan where old grandmas walk alone at night in big cities with no problem, although these countries are sexist.

Yes, public areas in Japan are safe for Japanese women. And yes, it's very sexist (and racist) and not as safe behind closed doors or neighborhoods as Westerners imagine. Unfortunately for Japanese women, their government has started immigration reform.

I spent some of my childhood in Japan, and I’m sad to see this happen. Living there was an ambivalent experience, but it gave me the experience of being an outsider in a first world, non-Western, homogeneous society. That, followed by moving to a diverse area, inoculated me against the ideologies that have infected so many American whites.

 

Most women are biologically submissive and this will never change…I don’t have empathy left for these women, they will always reap what they sow…

I’ve come to the realization that—barring some truly bad luck—people get what they deserve (or maybe earned is a better word?) in life. I don’t mean that in a moral sense, necessarily. I mean in an obvious cause and effect sense. If you don’t have the smarts to figure out your situation or the willpower to go against the grain, and instead check out or surround yourself with excuses and let fate overtake you, then oh well. It sucks to suck.