• @[email protected]
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    231 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

    • Flying Squid
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      451 year ago

      Obviously you do or else you wouldn’t live there

      Don’t make such assumptions.

      • @RGB3x3
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        61 year ago

        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.

    • @[email protected]
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      151 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.

    • @captainlezbian
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      101 year ago

      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.

      • @BluetreefrogM
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        51 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.

        • @captainlezbian
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          51 year ago

          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.

          • @BluetreefrogM
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            71 year ago

            Not having to pay tax in the US when you don’t live or work there.

              • @BluetreefrogM
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                11 year ago

                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.

              • @[email protected]
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                01 year ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            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.

    • @PunnyName
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      91 year ago

      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.

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

      Norway is particularly famous for flying the flag everywhere.

      • Turun
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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.

        • Kalash
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          21 year ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          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.

    • Flying Squid
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      41 year ago

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

      • BOMBS
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        31 year ago

        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.

    • @kozel
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      21 year ago

      I’ve been to european countries where they do this too.