• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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      19 hours ago

      I genuinely don’t get why hating the UK has become so popular recently. Like, sure we have our problems, but it’s not that bad…

      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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        7 hours ago

        UK export neoliberalisn,evagelicals and that traitor against all human Boris,UK will not be allowed to live that down for 100 year. UK stop having shit ideas.

      • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
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        9 hours ago

        Have you not lived through the political shit show we’ve had? Brexit, COVID scandals, Boris Johnson, Farage, stagnating wages, poor productivity, inflation, high energy prices, NHS in crisis, housing shit show…and there’s no end in sight. Think the UK hasn’t been doing that badly is quite a willful refusal to see how we compare to the rest of the world and where we could have been if we functioned better.

      • luce [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        12 hours ago

        randomly choosing a random outgroup to collectively hate on is funny sometimes (see: the fr🤮nch) Genuinely there is no other reason. sometimes people will create justifications/other explanations for it but really its just absurdist humor with a pinch of tribalism.

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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          10 hours ago

          Look we made a bunch of overblown jokes against the French for a while…

          …then they got BASED organizing ferociously for their workers’ rights…

          …Then we stopped joking so much…

          …and now they’re not doing so hot again.

          I think there’s a causative effect here. Should the jokes continue in order to spur them to greatness once more, even if only out of spite?

      • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.works
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        14 hours ago

        Is it recently, though? As far as I can remember, specifically England has been the US of Europe. Or you mean the UK as a whole?