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Bernardo de La Paz

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2. People with smarts & get-up-and-go leave despotic hellholes. Sheeple stay

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Wed Mar 9, 2022, 02:17 PM

Mar 2022

Of course it is not so simply divided, because many brave people do stay to fight the authoritarians.

Also, many intelligent people who would like to leave can't (economic situation for example) or won't (ailing parents for example).

But migrant people built the US while other places drained out.

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