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[–] Rottcodd ago
Of course I was serious.
The government would have us believe that it acts with integrity and honor.
Even a child could figure out that if the government has a problem with people choosing to renounce their citizenship, then that means that citizenship isn't all it's cracked up to be, which means that the government should figure out some way to make it more attractive.
Yet that's not what they do. They don't do a thing that even a child could figure out would be the best thing to do.
Yet the government still exists, and that much more surprisingly, still has people who support it. I guarantee that there are people - citizens - who even support this program.
It can only be that there are all too many people who don't figure out very simple truths - truths that even children could figure out.
So they need to be pointed out. Even though they're truths that even children could figure out.
[–] The_Wanderer ago
And they'll promptly ignore you. See, that's the thing; they're fully capable of figuring this shit out on their own. Whence cometh inaction, then? Simple: willful delusion. They don't WANT you to point out these things to them. They're comfortable, wrapped in their own little highly flawed world-view, fat and happy.
If you attempt to drag them out of it they will fight you kicking and screaming.
[–] Rottcodd ago
And that's part of the reason I do it.