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Yep, but why would you want to live in the US now? Just look at it.

Stay with us, mate.

Where do you live, where the government either isn't cooperating with the US or its allies or else doing its own spying and censorship, and isn't a corrupt, money-hungry beast? I might just pack my own bags and go myself. Assuming there are jobs for foreigners.

IMO the US is with China a step ahead everybody else Russia included. They also have the resources for this and control over the main companies spearheading these developments. Couple with a shadow federal government with absolute power, and the most sedated, naive, "cooperative" and docile population in existence.

It's really a scary place to live. Surely IT jobs do pay well there though.

Just because the United States happens to be better at it at the moment, doesn't mean other governments aren't complicit or wouldn't jump at the chance for total information awareness themselves.

It's a good reason to avoid the US now.

In the long term, we're all dead.

In case no one told you the US is awesome. There's more to a country than its government.

I've been there and although it has its things, the fear of the government, its agencies and police pretty much ruin it for me.

Last time I visited the airport experience was atrocious, enough to keep me outside of the US forever if I can help it.

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