People really don’t understand how big the US is and diverse it is. The best part about it is the melting pot with the worst part about it being institutional racism and sexism since it was founded by people who just thought white men would save us
Saying this as a white dude but still. Not all were bad sure I guess but a lot of em owned slaves and committed a vast amount of atrocities. That’s just history tho. I’d like to remind people in the UK I don’t blame them all for all the death destruction and sorrow that country caused
onion ass headline: "UK tumblr user still using old dr who picture is foremost expert on protest and given explicit permission to talk down to everyone else"
like i get a deranged shitty country would get a kick out of goofing on someone else being worse but we're just bigger at doing the stupid shit you already did
I don't think the sneering is helpful on either side tbh (referring to the replies to this, not you). Like both countries have a habit of taking ignorant jabs at each other when it would be more useful to acknowledge the challenges both face and try to look for resolutions together.
It's always fun to use the "Use your own words!" defense against these guys because they are utterly incapable of internalizing and communicating their own arguments. If they send you a link it's a sure sign they dont' actually believe in what they're selling.
UK people think a long distance relationship means it takes an hour by train to see your partner, they don't have a meaningful understanding of the scale of the US I don't think.
I mean if the US had high speed Chinese rail train does 268 miles per hour and are getting faster models you could totally do Austin to New York in a very feasible 6 hours
as a rule I don't really take anything the UK says seriously when it comes to politics, because it's almost universally just smug, eyerolling, sneering condescension like their own government isn't in the shitter *worse*
From what I've seen, it's even worse. At least Brandon had Lina Khan and labor board reforms. Starmer seems determined to flush the entire thing down the shitter.
def not gonna say starmer is good, but his government isn’t abducting innocent civilians and sending them to camps in other countries, or systematically dismantling the government, or purposefully collapsing the economy, etc
I feel this a lot in Canada as well. People across the pond often fail to grasp how *fucking big* North America is. Organizing here runs into the fact that we are all so spread out that it is a meaningful challenge to get a movement to catch on past the local level.
And it's not insurmountable, sure, but it is easily one of, if not, the most challenging parts of organizing here. I'd kill to get to organize in a country that could fit in just my province 15 times over.
And then in the US, you are also dealing with the fact that there are SO MANY AMERICANS. Getting that many people who are raised on the value of rugged individualism to form a cohesive belief across the board is sometimes an exercise in madness.
There are many many countries that have so many moral advantages to the US and I'm completely willing to grit my teeth while they trash Americans but the UK is not one of those countries. In no point of history has the UK been one of those countries.
What the fuck are they talking about? Sure, lots of us in the UK are doing the BDS boycott but our fucking government is still actively sending weapons to Israel.
in fact if the numbers I'm seeing from the briefest Google search are correct, US McDonalds got hit harder than UK McDonalds so this guy is absolutely full of shit
I don't know, everyone's saying the girl is British despite one of the latest posts on her blog saying she's South Asian living in South Asia, so when I saw you mentioning her being a white man too my mind was just like:
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https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/california-usa/united-kingdom
The English were such a mistake.
Please can you repost my pinned post 🙏
And quite honestly, I feel like when they say americans, they're just envisioning other white people. You know it's true.
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My beautiful friend, I beg you, we are dying of hunger and bombing, there is no refuge for us, help is in your hand, please repost to help me😭💔
Between the austerity and pandering to racists Kier ensured that whatever British fascist replaces him is going to pull some Children of Men shit.
It's like he's committed to purging anyone left of Margaret Thatcher from labor
Genuinely hate these people living here who turn their general dislike of the US into some grand social justice thing like a teenager
I would like to apply what I learned to this man.
:)
Not gonna risk trying to correct the neurotypicals though. Been there, survived that.