• MrSulu@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago
    1. Not really very different to the promises of great new lives made to people joining ISIS
    2. Oh the irony of becoming a migrant elsewhere whilst complaining about migrants at home.
    • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Nonono, he is not an immigrant, he is an expat. HUGE difference! Just ask the British pensioners in Spain and southern France!

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        A lot of the Brits in Spain have been leaving because the Spanish have cracked down on tax-dodging, and because Brits lost their freedom of movement in the EU when they voted for Brexit. And the expats are whining like mad about it.

        Meanwhile, I know some people who’ve moved to Spain and Portugal, learned the language, assimilated and gotten the passport, instead of living in a soulless monolingual enclave, quaffing Spanish champagne, creeping on their neighbors’ wives and cultivating their melanoma like the Costa del Sol bunch.