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17. Jesus...I live on another continent, separated by an ocean, from my family

Reply to Roc2020 (Reply #12)

Wed Mar 25, 2026, 12:12 PM

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My nephew is graduating high school in two months. My parents are aging. Neither of these things constitutes work or an emergency. Shall I board a container ship to get home? The QE2? I mean, Europeans have far better holiday schemes than Americans, but I can't exactly sit on a boat for weeks at a time to get home, and Elon's hyperlink hasn't yet come to fruition.

Trust me, if I didn't have to step foot in our godforsaken homeland ever again, I absolutely wouldn't and I'm counting the days until I have both my British and Italian passports. But I love my family and I'm not going to forgo important milestones because millions of Americans are fucking sociopaths and elected the biggest sociopath of them all. I say this as someone who doesn't own a car and eschews air travel in Europe whenever feasible. Might want to qualify your statement just a bit.

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