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4. I can see that's where this is headed. My own family tradition is to flee.
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 01:58 PM
Aug 2025

We are exploring options. My daughter has already started the process to get, ironically, Austrian citizenship. Yes, the easiest path to citizenship to escape fascism is in the land my grandparents had to flee because of fascism.

While people are obsessing over Netanyahu's stupid overreach in Gaza, we are living the reality of what it means to be Jewish -- having to flee from one place to the next because we are never welcome for too long....

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No kidding. It's hard to see a path out of this. unblock Aug 2025 #1
Which leads to my suggestion elsewhere that patriotic Americans Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #2
I can see that's where this is headed. My own family tradition is to flee. unblock Aug 2025 #4
Australia huh, I never thought about that. Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #5
*Austria (nt) Qutzupalotl Aug 2025 #6
Austria has an easy path for holocaust survivors, and children and grandchildren unblock Aug 2025 #15
Sunday JustAnotherGen Aug 2025 #7
Yes good point thank you, people need to get training once they exercise this right Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #14
Going by your figures - ICE is a huge militarized force - but aimed at the American heartland. erronis Aug 2025 #10
exactly 4catsmom Aug 2025 #12
When i was on a dating site a year ago Hornedfrog2000 Aug 2025 #23
American SS North Coast Lawyer Aug 2025 #22
I cannot stress JustAnotherGen Aug 2025 #3
We are renewing our passports AverageOldGuy Aug 2025 #8
Green Beret Officer's Brat JustAnotherGen Aug 2025 #9
It's getting pretty clear that we are going to have to physically fight these people in order to protect ourselves, hadEnuf Aug 2025 #13
Until long after they are gone, these pendejos Will be openly despised everywhere. Magoo48 Aug 2025 #11
They already are. unblock Aug 2025 #16
All I know is it was mos from the end of WWII... IrishAfricanAmerican Aug 2025 #17
I Believe This! BBbats Aug 2025 #18
Should good people sign up to work for ice to sabotage it Lucky Luciano Aug 2025 #19
Why not, whatever works. Magoo48 Aug 2025 #24
Agree, this is not just about undocumanted immigrants. These are VERY DARK times. LymphocyteLover Aug 2025 #20
Brown Shirts. speak easy Aug 2025 #21
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