• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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    10 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…

    • luce [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 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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        49 minutes 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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      5 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?