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The COVID-19 Protests Made Me Fall Out Of Love With America
*Braces for the “Then just leave!” comments*
If only everyone knew. I’ve actually been living in the Philippines for the past two years. I have “left.”
Why has it come to this, though? Why do I now have so much distaste towards the country that I grew up in?
The recent protesting in America was one of the final straws. I didn’t much care that people were protesting, even though it was extremely dangerous of them to do so and only putting themselves at risk.
It was the reason they were protesting that made me do a double-take.
What’s that sign that person’s holding?
Is that a — is that a guy saying he wants a haircut?
Then I watched the Facebook Lives. One lady boasted “We’re here in downtown San Diego doing a prostest!”
She couldn’t even say “protest” correctly.
Then she said “It’s real!” almost like she thought she was one of the cool kids and wanted to shove it in everyone’s faces that she was standing up to tyranny.
The tyranny of not being able to get a haircut.
How did I even see this train wreck in the first place? Well, my Filipino friends shared that live video. They shared it. Not…
