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@Hypolite Petovan part of the axis of the good ©

What is the right word, hypocrisy isn't it? I lost faith in the US some years ago. After loving to be there, have had many friends there, wanting to work there, agreeing to move to upstate NY for my company and now being banned to go without a visa (as a German citizen) because I worked for GE in Iran some years ago. Well, lost faith in that country, not just because of this, but of all the bad things they did in the same time.

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Hypolite Petovan

I keep saying that I moved to New York rather than to the United States. I had no special affinity with the US even before 2001 and the War on Terror and the Second Irak War, but I have enjoyed living in New York City better than I ever had in Paris, so given the opportunity I jumped ship. I do not seek naturalization though. It probably will make more sense for my kid to ask for it when he's 18 since he's entitled to it by birth by a weird remnant of a lost political age.
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@Hypolite Petovan yes, New York City is / was pretty different, hope it stays that way. For the US citizenship do not forget that this will force you/your kid to pay taxes there, even if you don't live there. Getting rid if the passport is also kind of complicated. Also if you have a US citizenship nowadays you are not able to open any savings account in many EU countries, big problem for a guy I know, he can not use the tax benefits for retirement savings accounts, as banks do not take any US clients anymore due to taxation problems.
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Well I hope we get through this and things get better before I die. At 61, I'm not holding my breath though. Still, ever see those videos where they put beads or salt or something on a vibrating membrane and tune it through different frequencies, at low frequencies you get a certain pattern, simplistic, then they raise it and it turns into chaos and then some more and it re-organizes itself into a more complex pattern? Well I think societies go through something similar and right now we're at that point of chaos but I hope a higher order will emerge.
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Societies evolve through a power struggle between the people who have and the people who don't. History shows greed inevitably precipitates the fall of the associated cultures, but it also kills a lot of people in the process, so while I'm hoping for better, I know transitions are bloody and I'm not eager for the slaughter, especially since I would probably be spared through no merit of my own.
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