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If I received a message like this, I would buy a plane ticket to a safe country and would apply for asylum immediately, and I would use the letter as a basis for the asylum application. It seems like a really strong basis for the application.
Define safe here, the only places I can think are Australia or New Zealand. The rest of the world is heavily messed up and falling head over hills for right wing sirens.
Australian here, we aren't always fantastic either. NZ seems good, but they've had some weird shit going on from time to time as well. I'd probably go with them though.
Which one has the giant spiders the size of your head? I choose the other place.
The giant spiders are Australian. I mean, it's Australia, everything has two health bars. That said, there is a harmless but creepy-crawly-looking giant grasshopper-looking thing called a giant wētā that - like actual grasshoppers - likes to live in and lay its' eggs in people's backyards. Here, educate yourself!
If you hate bugs, I'd recommend heading to South America (make sure to check local political stability of each of the nations) and staying in a city, or heading to northern Canada and buying a tiny shack to ride this all out away from everyone else. Japan is a possibility but... fucking murder hornets. Literally in Tokyo suburbs.
Bruh. I’m looking to generally reduce my stress. Do you have pictures of cats that look like their owners?
Fair enough, but if you're on the internet post-2017 looking to reduce your stress, you're in the wrong parts of the internet. Find a forum that's been around since well before then on your hobbies (niche hobbies like old fandoms tend to have the best results), other than that social media killed the internet.
Both, but the ones in NZ aren't poisonous, at least.
So the two safest places left on earth also both have giant ass spiders where half will kill your ass and the other half will just traumatize you. Got it 🫠
To be fair the giant spiders are generally not venomous, they are fast as fuck though.
So you are alive when they start to eat you....
Fortunately, no. But they will probably eat the harmless giant grasshopper-things (wela) that also live in New Zealand backyards.
There's also giant crickets in Africa, and several giant beetles in Japan. I swear I don't remember where I learned all this, I've never even been to New Zealand or Australia or any of the other places (aside from South America).
I dunno, those giant spiders might prove a good deterrent should the likes of the not so dapper Don decide to come take the place by force.
So long as they don’t put flies in my ice cream, I think we can forge a lasting peace with the spiders
Canada's doing ok. There's a 75% chance that the next prime minister will be liberal, but our conservatives are also less crazy than Trump. Most Canadians hate Trump right now, so both sides are pretty much required to oppose Trump.
The US might invade us, but that's true for a bunch of countries right now.
And hopefully we are all in agreement to vote ~smol pp~ into retirement.
I don't like all of ~smol pp~'s policies, but at least they tell it like it is, you know? After ~big pp~'s growing scandal and flaccid campaign promises, I just want someone who has the stamina to keep this country erect for at least the next 3 years.
You’re conservatives also is very Pro-Canada too, and before they were very Pro-Donald.. until he started threatening Canada.
There's this island full of penguins...
Great! Show me a country that will willingly take in someone who's disabled, financially support them, and house them and I'll fly there tomorrow -- oh and they'll need to cover the cost of the plane ticket too. I'm terrified of what's coming for me as a "parasite" being on disability, Medicaid/Medicare, and HUD housing but I don't have the finances to move elsewhere.