I have to pay the US taxes despite living outside the US, and in exchange they won’t let me renew my passport because I’m trans, so remind me why I’m paying them?

Iran about to get a poorly designed Olympic sized swimming pool in front of their capital building

You might hopefully return to reality

If only, they’ve been compromised by Trump to become his personal intimidation force

The Fart of the Meal

Are the cops the far right demonstrators

Uhh yes, yes you are. Loads. Just to give one example, le monde francophone has yaya pop (Juniore is one of my favorites)

Jail is the compromise

Where can one find secondhand gay? Asking for a friend

Glad my Fit isn’t on the list, I love that thing. It had a minor recall a while back but they fixed it free of charge when I brought it in.

A lethal combination of both malice and stupidity. The US education system is a complete failure.

A personal anecdote, I grew up in NY and was barely taught about the War of 1812. It wasn’t until I moved to Canada that I learned anything about it, at which point it became very obvious why we weren’t taught jack shit.

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Canada has better beef anyways

Oh I’ve considered it, and they just made it cheaper!

They’ve been holding them up in bureaucratic limbo, and at best you get a passport that misrepresents and endangers you anywhere you go. They refuse to process passports if they don’t believe your marker matches your ASAB, but then also say they aren’t processing gender marker changes.

At least, I’ve heard/seen enough reports that I’m not going to try it. Also, with the effort it took to change that info in the first place, I’d rather have a correct but expired passport than a wrong one

I’m trans.

They’re often used incorrectly as direct synonyms too, with no nuance as to the subtle differences between them

I’m a performance artist, far from Hollywood, and I have an alias. It’s called a stage name. It helps to keep my private and public lives separate, and it’s cooler than my legal name.

Someone’s decision to leave is theirs and theirs alone. I fully understand why people who have the means decide to stay, I also know firsthand how difficult it is to leave. Leaving is not an easy choice by any metric, and I’m not going to die in a repurposed Kmart so that the privileged majority can remain comfortable.

I left. No regrets, just a lot of grief. As a trans immigrant, the US does not and has never represented me.

Fun fact, I still have to pay US taxes but I can’t renew my US passport. What’s that about taxation without representation?