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Provided that any assets remain in the USA then just go. Also stay gone. Also no whining.
Most of Alex Jones's assets are already going to the Sandy Hook families. He can leave once he's paid up.
Kick out Steven Seagal to vatnikland too.
it will really suck to live in that country for quite a while it seems
Please go. You have my blessing!
I wonder how happy Putin would be when they get this guy that is known for spreading misinformation against the government trough a whole country.
He'll have lots of competition here. Won't be anything as big.
But his competition is pro Russia. And it seems like it's second nature to him to hate on his government.
DO IT!
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.
PLEASE GOD TAKE THEM, GET THEM THE FUCK OUT OF THIS COUNTRY.
PLEASE GOD take him up on his offer
Can someone spread around some guides on how to apply an everything. The crocodile tears would be incredible!
It's Russia, the whole idea of a howto guide to dealing with bureaucracy that works is, ahem, contradictory to its essence.
Most of them are going to give up before getting here. Sadly. It would be interesting to watch.
So they are seeking asylum in another country? Like, to move there permanently?
Huh.
Na na na naaa
Na na na naaa
Hey, hey, hey
GOOD-BYE
Hope they like their new trucks.
Maybe they'll get the dumbest of the dumbasses to go over there, but the just average dumbasses aren't too dumb to see that the standard of living in Russia is cold dog shit.
Hell yeah even has the tiny useless bed like modern US trucks
Dude that truck is sick, I’d be happy to drive it
no uh, you wouldn't be happy to drive a Russian vehicle unless you like awful rides and literally death. There are no airbags or any modern safety features other than the seatbelt lol
Me too but my masculinity isn't tied to the car I drive, because that would be cringe. But for Republicans, this might as well be Darfur.
Didn’t a conservative family already try living in Russia recently and found out it wasn’t all like a better version of America?
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.
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.
I'd laugh but that sounds like 8 kids had their lives ruined by some idiots.
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.
Shhhhh, don’t tell them
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
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
They wouldn't dare! They don't have the guts!
I can see it now, they go to Russia and expect all Russians to speak English.
Russia: You're in Russia! Speak Russian! You don't like it, go back to where you came from! Conservatives: How dare you!
Someone create a GoFundMe so we can buy him tickets.
Today’s surprise: I actually find myself grateful to Putin. GTFO, weirdos.
