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I wasnt allowed to vote for Brexit. I had been strucken from the electoral role. I had left England at teh start of 2003. As soon as the Brexit vote went through I put in my application för citizenship in Sweden. At the time no one knew what was gonna happen but I figured my permanent residency permit wasnt gonna cut it anymore cause it relied on me being an EU citizen.

At the time the migration crisis was happening in Sweden. So many asylum seekers from Syria and Afghanistan so my application was low priority. It took 2 and half years from application date to getting my citizenship but now I am Swedish.

Always wondered how England would be able to fuck up my life despite me leaving the country and Brexit was a big fuck up to my life. Now a new law has come along and I am not allowed to enter England on my Swedish passport. I got citizenship in Sweden while England was still in the EU so I got dual citizenship. I have to enter England with my British passport. A British passport costs 2600kr and requires dna. A Swedish passport costs 500kr and can be picked up at a police station.

Britain is a weird place that still effects my life despite leaving 23 years ago. I have looked at renouncing citizenship but that is also an expensive affair that involves handing over my dna to the British government. I have just made the choice to not go back. I dont agree with handing over my dna to go see my country of birth.

This lady? It wasnt hard to see the writing on the wall when Brexit happened. And now the climate in Sweden has changed. I dont know if I could get citizenship with this government. I certainly couldnt pass the citizenship test. Then again I dont know a single Swedish person who could pass it either. Let alone the minimum income required for citizenship.

Its a weird time through out the West right now.

No child left behind leading to a nation without critical thinking. Guantanamo bay. Imprison who the fuck you want without consequence. Making it law to invade the ICC if any American soldier is ever held to accountability. Crashing the entire global economy by relaxing laws on banks and investors. I mean Bush was pretty awful. Trump is just dumb as bricks walking in the same path set by Bush.

I think W Bush painted the world black and white when there is nuance. You're either with us against us. Started two very unpopular wars and dragged Nato members in. Caused mass immigration to Europe from leading to the raise of people like Bannon, Trump and Farage. The entire far right really. For me, Bush was the catalyst that led us to where we are right now and is the worse president. But even I think I am wrong cause my memory doesn't go back much further.

And worse of all. Bush didn't even win. Roger Stone literally stormed the recount, Bushes brother shut the count down and the supreme court went cool, cool, cool. Been hating ever since the shocking lack of democracy in America. And the fact that some anti abortion Gun nut in some swing state determines how many of my friends will die in wars, how much petrol will cost and how much food will cost due to sheer greed of the owner class in America.

So for me. Bush 2. Trump just let the world see the corruption in day light where the others kept it in the dark.

Hitler did literally look at Border Patrol in the US and went neat. I can use these policies for my regime. Thats the comparison. These policies, when followed through to their natural conclusion, end up where Germany went. It's quite literally the canary in coal mine situation. People are saying, this is a warning.

Once asked a girl what the orange ribbon on her jacket signified. She said domestic violence. I asked for or against? Sometimes I should just not be allowed to speak.

I have found Google search to be getting progressively worse where as I can type out a question to Gemini that will return better results than Google search. It's annoying that Google search has gotten so bad and duckduckgo will return you something interesting but not relavent. So Gemini is my Google search nowadays.