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Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 15, 2026

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My past (albeit limited) research on the topic has indicated that there's probably no country on Earth that lets welfare-dependent schizophrenics immigrate. But (just to double check), if one were to have to flee America (say, come 2029), which countries would be the best shot?

Without savings, the ability to claim us benefits abroad, ancestry, or changing that disabled status, nobody. Ireland would take you if you were irish. Paraguay and portugal if you had even moderate savings. Plenty of places if you're self supporting. You're probably stuck in the US if you can't find any paying task you can do.

You're probably not going to find one without tracing ancestral roots and learning the relevant language. You're not really looking for someone that wants you, nobody does assuming you aren't working and have no assets. You're looking for someone who can't turn you away.

If you have any Jewish ancestors, you might be able to gin up Aliyah to Israel. In some cases I've heard stories of people pulling it off despite not being halachically Jewish, just having a Jewish grandfather or something like that. I'm not sure you have enough runway to convert convincingly in that time.

In some cases I've heard stories of people pulling it off despite not being halachically Jewish, just having a Jewish grandfather or something like that.

Under current laws, Jewish grandparents are enough if you don't belong to another religion (or shut up about it if you do, they have no real way to check if you're not a church official). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Return If you do, you probably still qualify to live in Israel, but getting citizenship would be more complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Rufeisen

Proper Orthodox conversion would work too, but a sham one probably won't - they are not born yesterday and all the tricks that can be tried had been already tried.

Proper Orthodox conversion would work too, but a sham one probably won't - they are not born yesterday and all the tricks that can be tried had been already tried.

Maybe I'm overly confident, but I assume any Mottizen would have the verbal skill to appear sincere and comprehend the necessary information, if sufficiently determined. Leaving aside that a lot of us might be so wildly personally unpleasant that we would be rejected on other grounds.

Let us engage with this low (but not zero) probability scenario realistically.

If these fears come true, if big boog comes for real and US of A turn into some combination of Syria, Somalia, Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe and Chernobyl exclusion zone, then whole world's economy and international order (with its arcane system of passports, visas and residency permits) goes straight to the toilet. US passport and US dollar would be as useful as Tsarist passport and rouble was about 1920. No one in this world is going to welcome any refugees or send any humanitarian aid.

If you see this future as highly probable and want to escape it, you need to act now, you need to leave ASAP and gain some sort of legal existence elsewhere far from North American continent (and any current or potential war zone) before the hammer falls and all doors shut.

I mean, if the US government is cleansing red tribers in Alaska of all places, then it's not a civil war anymore- the blue have already won so convincingly that there's no real civil disturbance.

Yea, it is about year 1923.

If you have truly passive income, then Costa Rica and Paraguay welcome you and your social security check.

If the Big Woke Cleanse comes, first thing they'd do is debank you. So no SSI check for deplorables. The Party will find a better use for that money.

you and your social security check.

Assumes the SSI checks still keep coming, despite living in a foreign country after having fled a Democrat "de-Nazification" program gone democidal. (Especially if I still need a representative payee then.)

And SSI pays less than the minimum pension amount ($1000 US/mo) for the Costa Rican "Pensionado Program" (let alone the $2500 US/mo for the Rentista Program).

Wait how do you live off of that? IIRC you live on your own, right?

No country particularly wants somebody it’s paying pensions for itself, although Russia is very happy to take you into the army(hope you like дедовсчина) and plenty of third world countries don't have the capacity to exclude you if you just fly in and hang around(do you speak Swahili?), they’re not cutting you a check.

hope you like дедовсчина

It's дедовщина and that's for young recruits in the peacetime army. What you'd get in the current army is way, way, way worse (but probably won't last long - people who don't know anybody and can't contribute much to their unit materially or otherwise are the first to be used in the infamous "meat assaults").

although Russia is very happy to take you into the army(hope you like дедовсчина)

Not when you are a diagnosed schizophrenic.

Paraguay would welcome you, and if you have $1k in rents or jobs from somewhere you could live quite well.

Paraguay would welcome you,

According to a cursory search, part of the process for getting even two-year temporary residency (apparently, permanent residency requires a minimum investment of $70,000?) is a "Paraguayan medical certificate," a document confirming one is in good physical and mental health. Wouldn't schizophrenia be an issue for that?

You could probably come to Argentina, but the welfare you get here, if any, would probably be significantly less than what you get in Alaska.

You could probably come to Argentina

Hasn't Milei tightened up residency requirements?

Plus, with a quick cursory search, I'm not seeing for which of these visas I'd qualify.

I mean, if we are serious about the idea of de-Nazification actually happening, Argentina does have historical precedent...

Hasn't Milei tightened up residency requirements?

Yeah, but in practice it's just for the browns (and occasionally the Russians).

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