For immigrants who are immigrants not by choice, their life choices are often shaped by western powers’ military and foreign policy decisions, sometimes having a home that isn’t perfect is the best that they can do.

That’s assuming people want to come to the ‘bastion of freedom’ that the U.S. believes it is, when no one really believes that anymore. (I would say the ‘migrants at the southern border’ are also doing it out of desperation for relative stability, not ‘freedom’)

@skinnylatte People have some wild, wild ideas about how easy it is to leave places and/or go elsewhere.

Even the "I'm gonna move to Canada!" statements made famous 20+ years ago in the US... it's so fucking hard to move to Canada. It's SO HARD TO LEAVE THE US. It's SO HARD TO ENTER THE US. None of this shit is easy. You have shockingly little agency in any of it.

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It's also bizarre reckoning on American's parts given they only really inflect upon the supposed self governance seldom, are functionally detached from decision making between those inflections, only have supposed recourse in ejecting bad actors but not undoing their mandates and policies, and so on and so on and so on, where...yeah, the day to day life isn't exactly that different and the special days where it is just contribute to self deluding farce of differences.

@skinnylatte the boots 🥺 so cute

@skinnylatte THE BOOTS. 🥺 🥰

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My poodle back in the day refused to walk with this gear on. You had to put am umbrella over her.

@skinnylatte whatever she is, she’s beautiful 😻

@skinnylatte Also a certified cutie :Blobhaj_Ani_Hearts:

@skinnylatte Don’t matter what you call it, it will be defiantly “Not Amused!”

@skinnylatte I love the sky color, really feels like flim

@skinnylatte Just lovely.

@skinnylatte Another amazing one!