Passport bros “escaping” western countries aren’t going from one place to a better place. 99% of them are utterly confused about the cause of their newfound freedom No, it’s not LATAM or Asia or wherever that’s better. It’s being a citizen of a western country springboarding around LATAM or Asia or wherever that’s better. The being X between Y, Z and W is what’s better They’re going from one place to multiple places, including their home country They’re riding the “in between” of nation-states. The in between is the only place where freedom exists now. High-heel to snowshoe.

Decentralizing your citizenship, de facto, also has the effect of decentralizing your legal identity

There’s no more bigger step you can take in permanently increasing your freedom of movement than going from one citizenship to two.

Visa-free is morphing into effectively visa-lite. ESTA (USA). ETA (UK, AUS). ETIAS (EU in 2026) JESTA (Japan in 2030) The list and trend continues.

Five simple passport facts: 1. A passport is a legal ID 2. A passport is a travel document 3. A passport is not a citizenship 4. A passport is not necessarily only issued by countries to its own citizens 5. A passport is SOMETIMES rebuttable proof of a citizenship

Posts pretending the "Trump gold card" exists and is taking applications are always good for a nice little grifty engagement pump

What's the difference between a CITIZEN and a NATIONAL? Answering that question requires an inquiry into statehood, conquest and colonialism. To that end, I recommend anyone interested in this topic, especially in the U.S. context, check out: "How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States." by historian Daniel Immerwahr The book explores how Filipinos, Puerto Ricans, Hawaiians, and others were all U.S. nationals (but not citizens) at one point. Also why do so many Americans remain hazy, if not, outright uninformed on this point? Some of those U.S. nationals were entitled to, and GOT U.S. passports. Also that phenomenon of a "non-citizen U.S. national" still exists today for those born in American Samoa, Swains Island and U.S. Minor Outlying Islands. Those modern day U.S. nationals also get U.S. passports, despite not being U.S. citizens (another reason to be sharp in the distinction between concepts of "citizenship" and "passport"). Anyway, check out the book. #citizenship #nationality #USA #empire #colonialism

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