Could be interesting, but most of the website is still in German.

Country with most private beaches in Europe. I believe Greece comes second with some 600 or so…

Plenty countries do not allow multiple citizenships. However, the US does allow dual citizenship. And it does allow becoming citizen of another country and renounce the US citizenship.

It seems to me your are misinformed.

https://www.usa.gov/become-us-citizen

What do you mean? American citizens can indeed change citizenship. Where did you get the idea that a US citizen can not change their citizenship?

How would even the US be able to prevent someone from becoming a citizen in another nation?

Yes, it is leaving the US behind. You go leave somewhere else and you have some paperwork to do in your original country unless you eventually decide to change citizenship.

You could decide to still stay very connected to the US, or to avoid it as much as legally possible.

I don’t see how this is much more different than moving away from any other country. Unless you change citizenship you’ll still have to deal with your country of origin.

I’m not sure what this asymmetrical set of expectations you mention is.

If an American does not want to live in America, they can go live somewhere else. They’ll still be Americans, but won’t be living in America. If they don’t want anything to do with the US, they may try to stop paying taxes in the US; however I can imagine problems with that, as possibly their passport may be revoked.

Its being american but away

I do not think it is possible to stop being from a country, unless you leave it very young. An American may change their citizenship and integrate very well into another nation, but that does not take away the fact that they are American.

Sure it’s not nice. Still, does not make it impossible to leave. Moreover, why do you say without representation? Are Americans living abroad not allowed to vote?

No, I am not American. But I do know plenty Americans living where I live.

Americans can leave but they can’t stop being american

I don’t know a single county which you can leave and by doing that you terminate your citizenship. You leave your country and get residency in another country while keeping your own citizenship. Americans can indeed do the same and get residency in another country.

I do not live in my country of birth. I have residency where I live, but still have my original citizenship. I do not want to change my citizenship, it is something I may do with time; but those processes take quite a while. This means I still have to do paperwork in my country of origin. My paperwork does not involve double taxation on my salary, but I assure you it can become quite annoying at times; often I do have to spend considerable amounts of money in order to comply with such paperwork.

The only difference I see with the US is the double taxation, which is indeed an extra difficulty, but I don’t understand why you say Americans can not move to other countries. They indeed can and they do.

If you are from New Zealand you can move to South Africa.

Yes, you can. You will face some difficulties that you will have to overcome in order to do that. Same if you’re from the US.

Moving to a new nation with a family, restricting yourself to a specific job is always going to be difficult; regardless where you are from.

I am aware of the problem with US taxation on foreign income. In fact I know many people who move away from the US while retaining a job in the US. In many places this allows them to mostly only pay taxes in the US.

However, the statement is correct in my opinion: if you don’t like your country you can leave. It is indeed not easy, but definitely possible.

I know plenty of people where I live who came with their whole family without money and without a job, now they have a job and their family living here.

Plenty people moved with one year contracts, plenty people moved with contracts of just a few months, plenty people moved with a tourist visa and then found a job.

I have met people who have done this from many different countries to many different countries. In many cases it was difficult, in others it was simpler.

I know plenty Americans who moved to other countries and live well and were able to fix any bureaucratical problem in-between.

Are you saying that US citizens are impossibilitated to move due to the double taxation? Is that such a huge problem as to make it unfeasible? It surely does not make it easier, but plenty people before you were able to.

Isn’t a 1 year work contract enough to get a residence permit in most countries?

I guess it may not be in some countries, but I reckon most of them should be fine with that.

It is unlikely to move to a new country with a 10 years contract, unless you go for a specific highly skilled position.

Is working 10 years on the same contract ever desirable? Under which conditions?

Know plenty Americans who stay 3 months in Schengen and 3 months in Ireland/Serbia. They go back and forth not to surpass the tourist visa limit indefinitely.

But that’s mostly because they want to keep working in the US remotely. Otherwise, you can just get a job elsewhere and generally it’s not to difficult to get a residency permit with a job.

I thought there were agreements regarding the fact that weapons should not be deployed to space.

It actually is a great damage to the Italian economy. American parmesan is what in Europe is deemed a counterfeit product and thus banned.

https://cookedbytaste.com/are-parmesan-cheese-fake/

https://www.inc.com/amaya-nichole/the-2-3-billion-cheese-war-why-the-eu-is-trying-to-ban-american-parmesan-around-the-world/91328801

Dear fellow Americans, please stop producing parmesan cheese. You are driving inflation in Italy and directly devaluating their currency. This may be seen as an act of economic warfare.

Messages are end to end encrypted, I believe it is by default.

Google definitely has some metadata if you use the android app, at the very least the list of your contacts.

Regarding who you talk to, maybe: messages do not necessarily go through the servers of Google, it depends whether your carrier has their own servers.

Either way, I do see this as a great advantage over Whatsapp: while this system is still mostly controlled by Google the underlying technology most definitely is designed for decentralization and I know quite a few carriers are beginning to support it.

The person went back to the smartphone in order to use WhatsApp. I feel RCS is a better option as it doesn’t strictly need Google, the reason why it is google is that google has developed the only application which supports RCS.

Can’t use WhatsApp without Meta. What’s your point?

To be fair, I recently discovered RCS messages. Very cool. I’ve been using those quite a bit recently and with many people I do not need Whatsapp anymore.

I’m not arguing that colonization after some time stops being colonization.

I’m asking why do you believe Ceuta and Melilla are examples of colonization.

I agree on the right of self determination, for what I know people from Ceuta and Melilla do not want to leave Spain.

Other parts of Spain do and it is a pity they’re not allowed, even though to be fair the Basque county is pretty much as independent as a region of a country could be and Catalunya has plenty autonomy compared to other communities in Spain.

I am not talking about Palestine, and I do not want to lead this conversation towards talking about Palestine, because the facts are significantly different. Spain did not conquer a country without any defences just for territorial expansion and genocide. Please, do not introduce irrelevant topics.

Should indigenous Americans abandon their claims? No, but completely irrelevant to what we’re talking about.