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Irritable Farmer's avatar

Linh, just apply for a NON-O immigrant visa here in Thailand. No more border runs! .. just a visit to the immigration man every quarter 😉

p.s. thank heaven for strict immigration laws in these parts 🙏

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Tom Herzog's avatar

It is interesting how landlord-tenant law has been exploited by some homeless (please let us avoid that idiotic euphemism "the unhoused" as if that somehow mitigates the misery of the situation )in an effort to obtain shelter here in America. Apparently in some states if a dwelling is unoccupied and a "squatter" moves into the property and claims it and then the rightful owner returns, say, for example, from a two week vacation, the squatter may be recognized by the law as a tenant now and the legal owner must go through legal process to evict the squatter; the rightful owner can't simply tell the squatter to leave. They have to go to court and get a notice to "pay or quit" and then a thirty day notice etc. I've seen a video (the veracity of which I can't be certain) in which the owner of a home is being arrested and put in hand cuffs for trying to remove a squatter from her home without formal legal procedure.

Another interesting phenomenon is de facto legalized shoplifting in California. I've seen videos of commercial stores being ransacked by roving groups of young thieves while security personnel simply watch and do nothing. Apparently there is a policy among some retailers in the state to let the theft of less than $1000 of merchandise to simply go. Apparently a number of retail stores have simply closed down certain outlets due to rampant shoplifting. The last time I was in Sacramento a Rite Aid pharmacy I would often shop at had closed apparently for that reason. https://www.hoover.org/research/why-shoplifting-now-de-facto-legal-california

It seems the proletariat are starting to find ways, however perverse, to fight back against a system here in The States that they recognize as increasingly unfair and unjust in which the poor and poverty are increasingly viewed by the establishment as a de facto crime. The proletariat see the unholy triumvirate of Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos with almost a trillion dollars between them while the proletariat have their food stamps cut-off without the Constitutionally required procedural Due Process of a notice and hearing. Something is indeed "rotten in [the United States of] Denmark."

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