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[FallacyofUrist]

What even is humanity.

Why do we do these things and think these words.

Every day I learn something new about humanity that makes me either proud to be a part of this glorious hairless ape species or sad to be part of a species of idiots.

[Criptfeind]

At least she's not one of those lizard conspiracy people. You have a 1 in 25 chance of dating a Reptilian Agenda believer*. BTW you'd be tempted to dismiss the 4% of American adults that believe in shape-shifting lizards running the government as people lying or making it up, the worrying data point is that it's heavily skewed along party lines with 5% of Romney voters and 2% of Obama voters saying they believe it in a 2012 poll. If it's just people having a laugh it shouldn't heavily skew on party lines like that, because Romney voters weren't especially well-known for their zany sense of humor.

* EDIT: if you have dated 15 different people you have even odds that one of them believes in the Reptilian Overlords.

Too be fair though, if your sense of humor includes telling people you believe in the lizard people, it might also include saying that you voted for Romney.

[Kagus]

I know a fellow who said it was "entirely possible" that the British royal family was in fact lizards in disguise, because "we don't know what goes on inside there".

Then again, he does work for a psychic hotline because he legitimately believes that he can contact the dead. Plus the usual crystals 'n' things. Hangs out with a chap who has a very interesting theory regarding pyramids.

Not a Tory though, so there's that.


TODAY: I am a terrific failure and everything I do is wrong. But at least I can eat Oreo chocolate bars.

In a way I'm kinda glad I couldn't take my weekly pub visit yesterday, because I'm gonna need it a lot more today than I did yesterday.

[LordBaal]

I... Don't know what to do. Or better said I know what to do, the rigth thing to do, but I'm afraid doing so could potentially endanger my child immediate future. I guess I could dip in our savings again, it's almost 130$ which is plenty for a couple of months but then there's no money to get away.

[Kagus]

Principles are a terrible burden to deal with.

[Doomblade187]

I... Don't know what to do. Or better said I know what to do, the rigth thing to do, but I'm afraid doing so could potentially endanger my child immediate future. I guess I could dip in our savings again, it's almost 130$ which is plenty for a couple of months but then there's no money to get away.

If you are still attempting to make the exit, then I suspect the card would assist you. And maybe you would need it to exit. It sounds like you can't exit if you don't get the card.

[ChairmanPoo]

I... Don't know what to do. Or better said I know what to do, the rigth thing to do, but I'm afraid doing so could potentially endanger my child immediate future. I guess I could dip in our savings again, it's almost 130$ which is plenty for a couple of months but then there's no money to get away.

Stop talking bullshit about the right thing to do. The right thing to do is caring for your family and yourself, anything else is just pride.  You won't be either the first nor the last person paying lip service to some party, religion, or ideology  while believing something else altogether. So swallow your ego, say whatever they want you to say, and then sort your things out and leave.

[SaberToothTiger]

It may sound harsh but I doubt starving your kids and potentially dooming them to a hellish life in a collapsing country is morally superior to bending the knee for now

[Dunamisdeos]

If you can leave, do so.

If you cannot, you have to choose whether the risk of your children growing up to legitimately join the bad guys is worth it. If I lived under a cartoonishly evil regime that uses denial of basic services/goods coupled with public propaganda to methodically indoctrinate my children, I am not sure what I would pick. I'm not sure anyone here is even qualified to advise you, really.

However, if pride is keeping you from accepting assistance in leaving (and I'm not saying it is, mind you) then my solution for those sorts of things would be to imagine explaining to your adult children why you didn't leave when you had the chance. If you don't have anything to say to grown-up junior, then the right choice is clear. What's possible to do is of course another matter.

[Descan]

"We burn the present for the sake of a brighter future and act surprised when all it holds is ash."

Don't burn your present, man. Get the card and get out of there.

[Hanslanda]

I would tentatively agree that getting the card might be wise, but also beware the effect it may have when you can leave. IIRC the regime there is Communist or Neo-Socialist or whatever it's called these days. I suspect that being associated with it could possibly hurt your ability to enter some countries.

The US especially. We're judgy that way.

[dragdeler]

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[Gentlefish]

Could always ditch the card as soon as you're out of the country. You're a victim of circumstance after all, no-one should judge you too harshly on what you did to get out.

[KittyTac]

Could always ditch the card as soon as you're out of the country. You're a victim of circumstance after all, no-one should judge you too harshly on what you did to get out.

+1.

[LordBaal]

Thanks for the encouragement and even insults, all of it show you care.

I cooled my head and decided to proceed first to the work ministry to get legal assistance because there's a presidential decree of... "working immobility", dunno how to translate it for you guys, it means no body can be fired in the "'cause I wanna" basis, unless it's for something really wrong like stealing, industrial sabotage or murdering a coworker or something along those lines.

I think the worst that can happen is I refuse to get that fucking card, have to endure 3 months without the extra payment (and maybe the manager being an asshole, but that's snafu), then there will be no excuse for them to not pay me full salary since the government said they'll pay for it only 3 months... of course they have lied before, and still haven't even said how exactly they are paying the difference, there's even rumors that they'll do it with that petro scam or something along those lines....

Hey, my life isn't boring at least. If I get to old age I'll probably could write up some darn fun memories.