Americans Are Renouncing Citizenship at a Record Pace

1  2017-11-02 by edc_svr_wxf_qaz

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This, but unironically.

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Meh, I'd renounce mine if I had the ability to tbh. I literally changed my location on all of my forum accounts because I don't want anyone knowing I live in a country that elected Donald Trump.

This, but ironically

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Imagine being this much of a loser where you literally admit you are too poor/not successful enough to move to another country as a badge of pride.

Uh it has nothing to do with being poor and everything to do with the fact my entire family lives here.

If you truly saw the modern us as a fascist dystopia similar to nazi Germany you would’ve evacuated your whole family now.

When, at any point, did I say the US was a fascist dystopia similar to Nazi Germany?

Trump and his herd of retards are proto-fascists at best, and Trump isn't competent enough to be a fascist leader.

Yet still competent enough to beat the most qualified presidential candidate ever plus 16 Republicans. I’m not a trump supporter btw I’m just a foaming at the mouth retard like your or TD.

Why do you think being competent is a requirement to win a Republican primary?

Being competent in that primary was a serious disadvantage. Trump was a protest vote, they voted for the most incompetent, hilariously stupid person they could vote for because they wanted to "stick it to the establishment."

These people are perpetually enraged.

I mean I voted in the republican primary and I voted for the candidate who I thought would be most competent and push more conservative policies In the White House (actually 2nd cause walker dropped out before my primary). I can see why people voted for trump in the primaries though. The republican leadership in the senate and House has proven themselves to be incompetent (outside Rubio, who I voted for) so I can understand them voting for someone with. O track record (trump) over people with shit track records.

I don't know how to break this to you, but if you actually vote based on competence you're a minority within the GOP at this point.

It's basically become a party of white identity politics at this point and not one about conservative values.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-end-of-a-republican-party/

This is a pretty good article talking about the transition.

“Every once in a while, somebody would come with a Confederate flag and people would stand there and point at it and call them ‘liberal plants’ and things like that,” he said.

In that way, the tea party wasn’t new. Something real has been percolating over the past decade in the Republican base when it comes to race and identity. When looking at the change in the county-by-county vote from 2000 to 2012, one of the most predictive variables for a place becoming more Republican has been the number of people ethnically identifying as “American,” not whether or not a person believes in smaller government or lower taxes. States such as Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, where a plurality of people identified in the 2000 Census as “American,” are among those that have trended the most Republican since 2000.

Howe’s theory for the racial animus of Trump supporters boils down to simple attrition: “Everybody who was reasonable seems to have gone home in 2012,” he said. Romney’s loss in 2012 discouraged many of the once-energized fiscal conservative activists.

“This isn’t the most artful way to say it, but it’s like, where do you go when the only people who seem to agree with you on taxes hate black people?” Howe laughed ruefully. “I think what you do is you say, ‘Well, I may lose but I can’t align myself with them.’”

But instead, Howe said, he made moral compromises he regrets.

“There are some things that I don’t have core values about, that I can be negotiable on, compromise on. But then there are other things that I can’t budge on,” he said. “I think I thought I had to budge on some things: ‘Yeah, this guy talking to me right now just said he agrees with my taxes and also we need to get that Kenyan out of office.’ Why did I stand there and say, ‘Yeah’? You know? I shouldn’t have done that. I should’ve said, ‘Wait, what? No, that’s stupid. You’re stupid. Don’t be stupid.’”

When I spoke with Tim Miller, Jeb Bush’s former communications director, soon after Trump won the Indiana primary and the nomination, he wasn’t sure what the party might look like after November, much less four or eight years down the line.

There were potential paths back to a more mainstream party line, he theorized, including an economic downturn during a Clinton presidency, making Republicans more appealing by comparison. Miller wasn’t much comforted by that, though.

“I think another very real potential right now — why it’s important that people in the party speak out against Donald Trump and against Trumpism — is that the Republican Party moves to a period of minority status,” he said. “Where it’s essentially a party that’s driven by white grievances and by white — not racial politics, but a set of white identity politics.”

The only reason it’s a party of white identity politics is because of the democrats becoming more about identity politics post 2010 than about shit like reeeing at Wall Street for the recession. If you draw party lines on identity politics you shouldn’t be surprised when the people you exclude band together under the common umbrella of being shit on by you. It doesn’t really apply to me because I’ve voted conservative since I turned 18 but even if campaigning has been reduced to identity politics policies are not 100 percent identity politics like taxes, foreign policy, entitlements etc... for example the rhetoric around Castro’s retarded hud policies that were easily my biggest grievance with last administration was based on identity politics but the actual policy wasn’t a white vs brown thing but a middle class vs section 8 thing.

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TRUMP

What's your point?

How is this drama? It's just a bloomberg article.

Yeah because the US is the only country that makes its citizens pay income tax even if they don't live here. Many rich people renounce citizenship when moving to another country to avoid taxes.