• @[email protected]
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    789 months ago

    Know what’s funny? The way politics is going, this could happen but with whoever becomes PM after Sunak because HOO BOY SHIT’S GETTING REALLY FUCKING WILD HERE.

    Like the current PM made a transphobic Jibe to the Leader of the opposition WHILE THE MOTHER OF A MURDERED TRANSGENDER TEENAGER WAS IN THE FUCKING GALLERY and refused to apologize. Not to long ago we had a scheme to make kids sing this fucking bullshit in schools because people identify with their home nation more than the UK, not to mention all the absolute horseshit that regularly comes out of the UK.

      • @[email protected]
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        The UK was never a nation state to begin with. it’s traditions are are shallow as bathwater, mainly based around the Empire, which people are quickly realising is a bad thing. It’s four, some would even say five nations poorly stapled together with little interplay between the cultures. Each nation sees itself as it’s own thing with it’s own politics, identity, culture, ideologies, and even languages.

        The UK is about as much a nation state as Yugoslavia was.

        • @gmtom
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          189 months ago

          This comment is why you shouldnt get your geopolitical information from websites like Lemmy.

            • @gmtom
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              39 months ago

              Well then I suggest you put the phone down from time to time and go out and experience our country from time to time.

                • @gmtom
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                  29 months ago

                  You went to Wales and asked people if they though they should get their geopolitical opinions from Lemmy and they said yes?

              • @Reddfugee42
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                29 months ago

                From time to time.

                Time after time

                Time after time…

                (time after time)

        • @shneancy
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          19 months ago

          oh how the turns tabled

  • @bigFab
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    429 months ago

    Stop it meme creators! You were my only reliable news source. Now you are ruining it with fake memes.

  • Janet
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    is that a joke? cuz that sounds hella interesting… the weirder the conspiracies the tastier the popcorn!

    • @[email protected]
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      I think it’s a joke on the Putin thing. Like OK, a historical border doesn’t justify a present day war. Even the leader of Mongolia was riffing on this. Should Mongolia reclaim all of it’s former land Asia?

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        229 months ago

        Should Mongolia reclaim all of it’s former land Asia?

        I mean, it would make cartographer a somewhat easier job… Do we really need to have all those -stans anyway? 😛

        • Skua
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          I kinda want to see what the fewest countries you could cover the whole world with is if you took everything at its historical peak territory. So like post-WW1 British empire, Mongol empire just before Chinggis died, Umayyad caliphate when it stretched from Iran to Spain, Roman Empire under Trajan etc etc. How many do we need to fill in the whole map? And what’s the smallest country that we need in order to do so?

          • @gibmiser
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            179 months ago

            OK, but to make this interesting the countries you pick must have 100% of their peak territory, and it cannot overlap with another country.

            Good luck.

            • @[email protected]
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              59 months ago

              This sounds like a problem that would be covered in an algorithms class.

              Something something knapsack problem, dynamic programming, something something

              • Skua
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                I feel like overlaps should be allowed otherwise certain regions (Iraq and its surroundings come to mind) will make it impossible

            • Skua
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              79 months ago

              Please, nobody look at my combined hours played on those games

    • Lem Jukes
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      Yes this is 100% a satirical post mocking Putin for essentially using the same justification for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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    See, I’m not a fan of the royal family, but I’m pretty sure Charles would never talk to that cunt for a second, and for that I give him a tiny shred of respect.

  • @joneskind
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    If the TV Show The Crown is the slightest accurate, I could definitely imagine King Charles making this exact joke TBH.

  • @[email protected]
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    England is slipping back into being the cultural backwater they were in the early/mid medieval period. Scotland, northern Ireland and Wales should jump ship sooner rather than later.

  • @[email protected]
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    149 months ago

    my favorite genre of british person: the ones who think they aren’t just as annoying as the americans

  • @samus12345
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    Britannia waives the RULEs.

  • THCDenton
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    109 months ago

    Ok your royal highness lets get you to bed

  • Dr. Coomer
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    79 months ago

    I see the old man wants round 2.

  • @Viking_Hippie
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    49 months ago

    This is why cousins shouldn’t marry and why heads of state shouldn’t be whichever inbred result plops out of the royal vagina first.