Ancestors

Written by Nege Q. Public :raccoon_junk: on 2025-01-20 at 17:57

Something that still lives rent-free in my head is when I saw middle-aged Brexiteers making the argument that the UK had never seen itself as part of Europe before the EU got its grubby hands on the Isle(s) after WWII. Like, never in the existence of the island did it involve itself in the affairs of the mainland, as it's its own rock and thrived in isolation only to have its might manipulated by ~Europeans~.

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Toot

Written by Nege Q. Public :raccoon_junk: on 2025-01-20 at 18:03

One of the people saying this later talked my ear off on a patio in Utrecht saying democracy ruined Turkey because the uneducated peasants took the power away from western-educated elites and that's why it didn't qualify as a European nation. Why do you care, man? You're not European.

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Descendants

Written by Nege Q. Public :raccoon_junk: on 2025-01-20 at 18:05

He then invited me to go to Amsterdam with a few people to drink absinthe at a tourist trap bar. I said no thanks, I went through that phase when I was 25 and I'd rather stick around with my friends.

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Written by Nege Q. Public :raccoon_junk: on 2025-01-20 at 18:06

He also bitched a lot about the "plandemic" and thought covid was a conspiracy. Surprise, surprise.

(also: major transphobe despite having trans "friends")

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Written by Nege Q. Public :raccoon_junk: on 2025-01-20 at 18:14

But man. Saying the British have always been isolationists to a Canadian. What a fool.

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Written by Vy on 2025-01-20 at 18:18

@theynege "The sun never sets on the British Empire" Britain??? That one?? Isolationists?!? Amazing

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Written by Nege Q. Public :raccoon_junk: on 2025-01-20 at 18:41

@shockwaver IKR???? 😂 Cognitive dissonance out the wazoo.

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