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He enjoys eating shitty food

Seriously the food here sucks lol.

big chunk of that is Mormons. More Trump supporters than i thought too.

Mormonism is the only religion I'm straight up bigoted against and everything new I learn about them just reinforces my prejudice

The word trump, incidentally, is defined by NAOB as

1. {DIALEKTALT|DIALECTAL} {tung,|heavy,} {svær|enormous} {kar|fellow}
2. {MUNTLIG|SPOKEN} {tverr,|contrarian,} {vrang|difficult} {mann|man} {eller|or} {gutt;|boy;} {vriompeis|fogey}
3. {DIALEKTALT|DIALECTAL} {børsekolbe;|butt of a rifle;} {geværkolbe|gunstock}

Of course, this word is not pronounced like Norwegians pronounce the name Trump ("Trømp"), but it is still a little funny.

For me I can't really hide my American accent and I'm not fluent in Norwegian yet.

A strat I've seen a lot of people use in that situation is to just pretend they're Canadian, but I couldn't do that, frankly. I guess I just don't like making that part of myself invisible.

It just gets really annoying because I don't want to talk about politics every five goddamn seconds.

Absolutely, absolutely. I think I might have a higher tolerance for talking politics than most people, but Norwegians' fondness of hounding Yankees with political question after political question is one of the things that led me to develop my own current theories about the interplay of Europe and Seppoland. Like the reason why Americans in Norway get these questions is ultimately because Norwegians can on a deep level sense that their country is entirely beholden to the whims of another country whose policies they have no say in, but without any actual theory to make sense of this situation, this sort of deep-seated insecurity about the New Master's actions basically turns into an obsession with Seppoland's politics — and in turn Americans in Norway are turned into "fetishes" of the current vassal relationship, if that makes sense.

Seppoland, naturally, benefits from this arrangement: if anyone who tries to resign from settlerism is soon met with crowds of people who act Deeply Weirdly about the ex-settler's background, leading the ex-settler to feel frustrated and alienated, like they just can't fit in and can't carve out a life outside of the settler-colonial paradigm, then resigning from settlerism is made all the more difficult. This "McAfeeization" of settlerism becomes especially important during crises of the colonial system, where settlers' loyalty to the project cannot be so readily bought with "treats".

This is at least my current understanding.

A Norwegian trump supporter tried to Amerisplain me last night and I about lost it.

Jesus Christ, tell me about it. Young men are turning increasingly rightward, so there's a lot more Norwegian Redcaps than there used to be, and they are painful. Just completely disconnected from reality and their own interests. They lick boots that even liberals wouldn't lick, and Norwegian liberals fucking love to lick boots, so that's saying something.

Oh good god, the whole point of wanting to emigrate is THEY’RE the people I’m trying to get away from.

Pog!

Legit though, the only difference between expat and immigrant more often than not is just vibes, and the vibes are more often than not just

I'm willing to give people some leeway, but anyone who self-describes as an expat still immediately gets a raised eyebrow from me as probably having some chauvy brainworms

Iirc you can stop paying taxes but literally only if you give up your US citizenship entirely. But to do that, you have to book an in-person appointment with feds where you convince them to give you permission. And I'm pretty sure there are no laws or procedures they have to follow; it's just vibes-based whether or not they let you go.