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‘I don’t want to be part of a dictatorship’: the Americans queueing up to renounce their citizenship (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 months ago by arbilp3@aussie.zone to c/worldnews@aussie.zone

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There's a lot I didn't know about the process. It'd be interesting to get the view of US members of this community.

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[–] The_Sasswagon@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

Its super strange, I'd run across it pretty frequently from weird super hostile nationalistic youtube comments in the past few years (flag of st George/american flag punisher kind of profile pics, nationality doesn't seem relevant), but rarely anywhere else until recently on Lemmy. I always imagined it had been common in Australia for a while but recently it seems to have broken containment.

Kind of a self own if used seriously, though. I can't imagine anyone but a little kid using rhyming slang to try to be hurtful.