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Faine Greenwood

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it’s frightening to consider how much harder it’s become to escape regimes that actively want to kill you since WWII, which really seems like the exact wrong lesson the world should have learned

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Particularly since a lot of folks died then who wouldn't have if we'd just been decent human beings and let all the refugees in

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Jessica's avatar Jessica @afunkyfennec.bsky.social
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The nation state and nationalism is a huge problem.

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Peter Hurley 's avatar Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social
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It is dispiriting, but not a surprising consequence of the pressure of economic migration being so strong combined with the physical cost and difficulty coming down so much.

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⏱📋David Steinberg⏱📋's avatar ⏱📋David Steinberg⏱📋 @zzyzx.bsky.social
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Yeah. It’s only gotten worse since then. Talking with friends who legitimately moved to Canada and seeing how hard that was was eye opening. Of course that also assumes that there’s somewhere better to live.

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Paisley P. Peinforte's avatar Paisley P. Peinforte @p3.paisleypeinforte.co.uk
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Sadly that's become the point. They want the right to trap you in a box forever and all time and subject you to their whims with impunity.

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Nothings Monstered's avatar Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
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B. Traven's novel The Death Ship always sticks in my head for being about the moment of transition. A little earlier than what you're talking about, but it's about sailors on a merchant ship who don't have papers and so can't be anywhere.

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