[Serious] I want out

[Rev. Rye]

It can be tempting to invoke a right to return to another country, but it’s not always practical to expect it to work. Case in point, a plurality of my ancestry (40.5% to be precise), is German. And Germany, teething troubles regarding refugees and migrants aside, is actually doing pretty well. And at one point, my mother said that if the Iraq War got to the point where we reinstituted the draft, we were leaving the country (the fact that autism is a disqualifying condition aside). So, it kind of made sense to toy with the idea of looking for a backup plan for countries to move to if the US became a total shithole (yes, even worse than it is now). I looked into Germany, and it turned out that, while normally, you had to live in Germany 8 years before you became a citizen, you could speed up the process if you had sufficient ties with Germany. Unfortunately, 40.5% German blood doesn’t mean a fucking thing if all your ancestors left before the German Unification in 1871 (and I’m fairly certain the cutoff is far more recent than that, Weimar era at the very least.) And I still would have had to do a tour of duty in the Bundeswehr. To be fair, as militaries go, they are a joke, largely by choice (for understandable reasons), and my German history teacher described his time as consisting mostly of doing donuts in tanks.