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I'd love to leave. I desperately want to. But I have no marketable skills (too broke to attend college out of high school, am trying now but still have 2 1/2 years to go, so too long), I'm terrifyingly broke, have a weird-ass employment history from years of undiagnosed mental illness and just recently diagnosed ADHD, and I never learned a second language because shitty education and I don't pick up languages well from those programs that claim to teach you. If I could go, I've have gone already, but nowhere worth going wants me and I get it. I know I'm a loser. I'm stuck on this ship while the cool kids are leaving in the life boats. And yes, I vote, but what does it matter?
Imagine your situation, but 10 times worse. Now you see why people try to cross the border.
Amen. You'll never hear me whining about that. Anyone desperate enough to risk their life to cross the border has to be escaping hell. I used to live in an area with a lot of immigrants and some refugees and my job put me in contact with them frequently and I never saw any reason to have a problem with any of them. Despite what the media says, they were no worse than any other person, and a lot of them were good people who were clearly doing their best.
You're on the ship with a lot of us buddy. We get through this together.
Sorry to hear of your situation. That kinda sucks.
Vote anyway.
There are people trying to convince you that your vote doesn't matter. if it didn't matter they wouldn't bother trying to convince you.
Exactly this. Gonna use this argument more often.