• BigPotato@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    How long had England been a part of the EU before it left? Maybe the whole country should bear the shame of this woman being deported. If they didn’t want it to happen, they shouldn’t have left the EU.

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      4 days ago

      Downvoted because you’re not addressing anything I said, but also that’s a complete non-sequitur. It’s not the Middle Ages anymore for us to act like the tribe owns the individual; there’s no reason the life of this woman should be upended by the foolish actions of the British voting public just because she happens to be from Britain. What Britain wants is frankly irrelevant here.

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          I’d say anyone living in America who is able to do so should be taking part in some kind of resistance because the atrocities their government commits are funded by their tax dollars. So if that American wasn’t living in America, yes I’d judge them exactly the same way.

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            2 days ago

            Americans not living in America are still required to file American taxes and pay them if they are owed. So, in this case, even an American living abroad may be financing the atrocities at home and abroad using non-US funds.

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              Americans not living in America are still required to file American taxes and pay them if they are owed.

              Which is not the case for the vast majority of people (Americans living abroad get a shitton of tax exemptions). For the ones who do owe taxes, well I’d say they should learn how to dodge their taxes.