• maeries@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Putting american flags everywhere. What do you want to tell me with that? That you like the country? Obviously you do or else you wouldn’t live there

      • RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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        Yeah, when you live in the US, moving anywhere else isn’t as easy as packing up your things to go to a new country. We don’t have the benefit of an EU or Schengen Zone.

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      1 year ago

      Obviously you do or else you wouldn’t live there

      Very much not true. Moving to another country full time is not particularly easy for a lot of people.

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      Oh actually no most of us can’t reasonably leave. We don’t have a shengen type deal or financial security so leaving is actually quite difficult for most of us.

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        1 year ago

        I asked an American who was getting citizenship in my country if they were going to relinquish their american citizenship and was told that was pretty much unthinkable for an american.

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          Yeah I can’t imagine why I would. Like the country has its huge issues but holy fuck is our passport an amazing thing to have. It’s a thing of nobody but us will fuck with us.

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          There’s no benefit to losing American citizenship. Why would you want to renounce it?

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                The United States is one of only two countries that taxes based on citizenship, not place of residency. That means it doesn’t matter where you hang your hat — if you’re legally a U.S. citizen, you have a tax obligation to the U.S.

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                American passport is one of the few that still demand taxes even if you never been to the US for ages, look it up.

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            Taxes, Boris Johnson gave up his citizenship as he didn’t want to pay tax on a country he didn’t actively reside in. I always thought that was kind of ironic given half the reasons for independence were due to paying tax to a foreign power.

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      It takes swathes of resources to get out of this hellhole. You wanna provide about $50k and a guaranteed job / housing / transport out for me? Then I can leave.

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      1 year ago

      They do this in Europe too though (not with the US flags, obviously).

      Norway is particularly famous for flying the flag everywhere.

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        Fair, I have also seen plenty of flags in Denmark.

        As a German it weirds me out. We don’t do that kind of nationalism any more.

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          Switzerland also. People have proper flagpoles in their garden, it’s quite stange.

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        I see a good bit of flag waving in the Netherlands as well. In France though I’d be weirded out if I saw one besides on official buildings and stuff.

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          Yes, if you see a private home in France with the French flag, you’d pretty much assume the people living there are far right extremists. Normal people use the Brittany flag instead.

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      I was very pleased aghast that they had porn on TV in Europe after a certain hour when visiting in my teenage years.

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        they had softcore porn at the airport in Moscow when I visited in the mid-90s! i was a young teenager being mesmerized by tits.