He even lies about cancer stages. He just can’t help lying all the time.

Why does fucking Trump has to speak about everything everywhere all the time? Can’t poor Joe die without having a fascist monkey comment on his health?

You know, it’s great that MAGA finally shows some decency. But here’s the thing: fuck MAGA.

Blank checks and no balance.

Constitution? What’s that?

Is it that piece of paper hanging in the bathroom in Mar-a-Lago that the orange utang wipes his ass with every day?

Youtuber Johnny-come-lately gets way too much attention.

Touché.

gaudy as shit background

As Jon Stewart said yesterday, it’s what would look like inside Marie-Antoinette’s vagina.

I have no idea if the comparison is factually apt, but I find it strangely appropriate.

He certainly provides a lot of the brainpower the orange utan doesn’t have.

It’s not like it’s new either.

I mean the whole Nazi holocaust scheme was basically made legal by denying the jews were fully human. Laws that apply to humans don’t apply to subhumans, right?

Similarly, Dubya claimed the Gitmo concentration camp wasn’t a violation of the Geneva Convention because the detainees were “enemy combattants” and not prisoners of war.

It’s fascism 101, and the US has been practicing it for decades now.

Renounciation costs (or at least used to cost) a few thousand dollars. That’s money you quickly recoup by not paying any US taxes.

Besides, I don’t see why I should pay Uncle Sam anything of what I earn abroard, living abroad and working in a foreign company, not using any American services or infrastructure. The only rational Uncle Sam has to offer for extracting taxes from US citizens residing abroad is essentially “Pay up or else…” That’s a racket, pure and simple: even if it wasn’t financially sound, I don’t pay racketeers.

What other pros/cons are there?

Not being an American is a big pro. Your conscience is less dirty.

And as of Apr 14, 2025, the safety of not living in a dictatorship where the rule of law doesn’t apply anymore is also a big plus.

And while not directly linked to citizenship proper, living abroad offers many advantages: working healthcare, a decent education for your children, publc services that work… Yes, you pay a lot of taxes in Europe, but you know what you get out of it. The quality of life in Europe is much higher than in the US. And - I know it sounds weird but it’s true - you don’t need the constant background paranoia you need to live in the US. You don’t realize the paranoia is there until you leave and then it lifts from you. It’s a real thing.

But of course you can experience all that while still being an American. Not being American is mostly a matter of refusing to be associated with - and finance - an amoral society.

It was easy for me: I had dual citizenship. I simply renounced the wrong one - which cost me a pretty penny: it’s a real racket run by the US, this. But it paid for itself many times over in that I never had to pay US taxes for income I generated outside the US, which is also another US racket.

I left the US and renounced my citizenship 24 years ago, after Dubya shat out the USA Patriot Act and I knew the US would turn into a full-blown Nazi state some day.

Best thing I ever did.

It’s strange how all dictatorships have the same control freak obsessions with the same things around the world, across eras:

• Obsession with squelching science and education
• Obsession with denying basic reality and facts
• Obsession with religions and cults of various kinds
• Obsession with the population’s natality
• Obsession with people’s sex habits and the contents of their pants

Trump’s regime, being a run-of-the-mill fascist dictatorship, is no different and ticks all the boxes.

Agreed.

All I was saying was, no need to say Allegedly here. People who patronize Luigi Mangione forums have a pretty good idea who they think did it, they actually agree with what they think he did, and there isn’t much point in reminding them that Luigi is technically innocent until proven guilty.

Oh well… At least Luigi will have his day in court, unlike the poor sods who were shipped off to Salvadorian concentration camps without due process by the Trump regime. In this weird day and age, Luigi might be luckier than most in that his constitutional rights will be respected.

Allegedly

Yeah… That’s cute, but if people truly believed there was any doubt that he did it, there wouldn’t be the wave of support and enthusiasm he unwittingly created.

What is all this about listening in on calls between defendant and lawyer. Sounds very sus but im not knowledgeably enough about legal stuff to really understand it.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but due process has been thrown out the window in the United States.

Also, Mangione has committed the most terrible of all crimes: he attacked corporate America. He will be spared nothing.

My volumes are PLAIN dm-crypt encrypted (i.e. LUKS without the LUKS bells and whistles) and the key is stored on my Vivokey Flex implant.

I mount them using scripts that combine crypsetup and vivokey_pam, with the ubiquitous ACR122U RFID reader: the systemd service file calls my script, I present my implant to the reader and voila: the volume is mounted.