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  • ccunning@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    25 days ago

    Don’t forget to renounce your citizenship so you can’t come back don’t have to pay taxes…

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      24 days ago

      I say that as a Russian (EDIT: citizen), let them do it. The squeal they’ll raise when they realize what they’ve gotten into is going to make life here interesting in a good way for some time.

  • renrenPDX@lemmy.worldEnglish
    75·
    24 days ago

    Didn’t a conservative family already try living in Russia recently and found out it wasn’t all like a better version of America?

    • Sway@lemmy.worldEnglish
      56·
      24 days ago

      There was a homophobic family from here in Sasktachewan (the Feenstra’s), who sold their family farm and dragged their 8 kids to Russia to escape the “far leftist” and “lgbtq ideology” here in Canada. Guess it didn’t work out too well for them since they had their bank accounts frozen (possibly assets seized) and then proceeded to speak ill of Russia (including they don’t speak English there) only to have to publicly apologize and eat their words.

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        24 days ago

        Guess it didn’t work out too well for them since they had their bank accounts frozen (possibly assets seized)

        There’s that funny, but sad thing about laws and how not to break them - a lot of it in daily life depends on instinct, like “how not to make your Windows 98 installation hang”. And those instincts, the aesthetics of what you should and shouldn’t do, are very different between USA and Russia.

        Fraud aside.

        and then proceeded to speak ill of Russia (including they don’t speak English there)

        LOL. What did they expect, “traditional values” are usually less demanding in terms of knowing foreign languages.

        I mean, there was some farmer guy on YouTube who actually managed to move to Russia, create a business and all, who also learned Russian on a good level, but that fact alone (learning a new language on a fluent level being an adult) shows him to be a very unusual person. And I don’t remember any “traditional values” being among his reasons.

        to escape the “far leftist” and “lgbtq ideology” here in Canada

        The stronger your country and civilization group are, the harder it is to see past internal discourse towards outside reality.

        So I’m not surprised that Americans and Europeans might often see their daily news as the absolute truth and be hostile to people trying to tell them otherwise. As with, for example, demonized Iran (not that theocracy is good, it’s just that in foreign policy it’s a better country that Russia, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, China, …).

        For such people the internal discourse is that Russia is somehow related to their political views. While in reality it’s anything but “traditional” in the American sense.

      • Nurgus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        24 days ago

        I’d laugh but that sounds like 8 kids had their lives ruined by some idiots.

        • Sway@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          24 days ago

          Yeah, I feel horrible for those kids. His wife also at least seems to have at least realized what a mistake they had made. Her husband though, has done nothing but double down on staying in Russia.

  • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
    105·
    25 days ago

    So uh, I appreciate everyone’s sentiment, but this would actually make our problems worse. Living in Russia does not prevent you from running a propaganda network, though sanctions might possibly interfere with supplements sales.

    What living in Russia definitely does do, though, is prevent our legal system from reaching you with any form of consequences. Many of our fiercest propaganda foes do live safely in Russia where we just cannot reach them very easily, and they are still a major problem. A lot of the fake local “news” websites, for instance, are run by one single American expat, living in Russia. He just remakes them when they get taken down, he’s made hundreds, all spreading a mix of copied real news and standard Russian propaganda.

    Things aren’t always as simple as they seem. Most things, actually.

    • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      131·
      25 days ago

      If Alex Jones actually goes to Russia to live, I have $100 saying that within 6 months he’ll be “asked” to do war correspondent shit and will wind up like that katsap whose face was all mangled and had to stop a civvie car to get a ride to the hospital.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
      142·
      25 days ago

      Oh no! Ukrainian partisans infiltrated their compound and gunned them all down after they became valid targets as official propaganda apparatchik!

      Shame.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    25 days ago

    Please idiots, flee to that hellscape. There you might realize how full of shit you all are.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    24 days ago

    I’d be soooooo triggered if they accepted. And remember, the US is the only country that taxes citizens on foreign earnings. So you’ll have to renounce your citizenship

    • psmgx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      24 days ago

      They nail you like 1600 to renounce that citizenship too.

      Unless you plan on going back to the US there is no real concern about the tax man. Alex Jones is on the hook for millions from the court rulings about Sandy Hook, so fucking off to RUS is a viable option in that sense. Turn it all into BTC and flee

  • rayyy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    25 days ago

    Good, he can go to Ruzzia and produce more, “entertainment for idiots”, there.

      • Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        19·
        25 days ago

        Nah, Putin isn’t that dumb, Alex Jones will get set up nice somewhere he can pump out propaganda and get more rubes to come to Russia, the rubes will die in the trenches.