This thread is Poe's Law-ing the shit out of me

No, no, no. These weapons pale in comparison to basic infantry in the modern military. Not only are they way overkill for anything a law abiding citizen should ever need for recreation, they would also be useless in the case of a 2nd Amendment related coup of the corrupt government.

From my own experience as an immigrant in The Netherlands and Britain, "expat" is generally used by Americans and Brits when living abroad and pretty much nobody else no matter what their skin tone. I mean, I've seen on or two Ozzies using it but it's way rarer with them and I suspect they were just copying the Brits and Americans. The New Zeelanders I crossed paths with weren't "expats" and neither were the Canadians. Similarly I never heard any of the other Europeans immigrants there refering to themselves as "expats".

I think "expat" is more a thing of people who thing they come from a "great country", as if somehow it's a priviledge for the other country to have them there.

She has "MAGA" in her display name. Why listen for dogwhistles when there's a red alert siren?

BTW I had several teachers that described themselves as expats from the UK or US, and they were alright.

There is technically a difference in the definition, but mostly people use it exactly as you're describing.

I've really had to catch myself when I notice myself using it.

But honestly it's so expected that people can get confused when you call yourself an immigrant (and you aren't doing it to make yourself a martyr somehow).

I hate the word for the reasons you've said, but I know a lot of black Americans in Portugal that refer to themselves as expats.

Feels to me that the line is drawn along economic privilege lines rather than simply race.

Well, the Dutch are moving right. Gert Wilders is a literal fascist.

AfD in Germany then we have Norway, Italy, Finland, UK, France and on and on. They probably feel at home

Well, if this wasn't a troll account, it would probably be for work. The US has a military presence in the Netherlands, and we have a lot of corporate cross-over, especially in the tech industry, like the photo lithography involved in making CPUs. It isn't that weird.

This is s troll though

Yeah this confuses me to no end. I thought they made America great last election?

I can’t imagine going to school like that bro.

Like is it scary and you always wonder if some lunatic is going to come and shoot it up or no?

I’m an American living in the EU, and I’m surprised by that. All the other American immigrants I’ve met so far have been opposed to Trump and Republicans generally. I always figured the conservatives were likely to be buying into AmErIcA iS tHe BeSt propaganda and would thus be uninterested in moving to another country.

Spreading the plague, as insects are wont to do.

We have plenty of fascists here. It's not like the US have a monopoly. We don't quite let them run the show yet, but we're certainly working on it.

we don't give every single person the money for a ticket to a gun show

Erm, wut?

It's not JUST the guns tbh. Everyone in Switzerland has a gun and they don't shoot eachother up. American society is fucked up on multiple different levels and the guns are just adding extra fuel and oxygen to a forest fire.

Build a wall, make the USA pay for it

(Kidding, mostly.)