Britannia RULEs The Waves : 196

[-] [email protected] 81 points 7 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] 25 points 7 months ago

The UK is really a dead country huh?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

He said while clearly expressing his geopolitical opinions for others to perceive on lemmy

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I live in the UK and everything I have said is from personal experience.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 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.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

The UK is also on track to be economically weaker than fucking Poland.

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[-] [email protected] 54 points 7 months ago

Hillarious! Just for a few seconds I wondered if this was real!

[-] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Governments use memes as a format to spawn propaganda. wouldnt rely on em too much in any case

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

So does 4chan

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

is that a joke? cuz that sounds hella interesting... the weirder the conspiracies the tastier the popcorn!

[-] [email protected] 84 points 7 months ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 22 points 7 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? 😛

[-] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 7 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] 5 points 7 months ago

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

Something something knapsack problem, dynamic programming, something something

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

This just sounds like playing a Paradox game, now

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Who else is going to send letters to Eminem?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Signed truly yours, your biggest fan, Kazakhstan.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Britannia waives the RULEs.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Ok your royal highness lets get you to bed

[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Alexander is ready for his interview Mr. Carlson

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 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.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You ate the onion, my dude

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

so many things are onion flavored nowadays it's kinda hard to notice when you get a real one.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Oh well, my comment about monarchy in general and (cavalier) King Charles (spaniel) in particular is still correct 🤷

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I see the old man wants round 2.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

[ Heart of Oak intensifies ]

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

COME CHEER UP ME LADS

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

TIS TO GLORY WE STEER

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

The UK - nah they are too weak and small. But I could see a world where a U.S. leader claims that they are the successor state to the british empire and thus have the right to reclaim the land.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I mean, why not? We already exist on stolen land, and our border policy with Mexico is fueled by colonialism.

Note so I'm not misunderstood

Just to be clear, I'm being satirical and don't really think we should extend our colonial arm even further, but it's important to realize that we already pretty much do this.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Let's not forget that the royal family is actually of German descendance.

Before we attribute the empire to the US we should ask the Reichbürger (literally empirce-citizens, kinda like sovereign citizens, but they believe in Monarchy) of Germany if they have a suitable leader for the empire.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I mean if you go back 300 years, but then if you go back 1000-1300 then most of England & Scotland starts to look pretty German (Anglo-Saxons, Norse), with England getting significant French & Scandinavian (Norman = French Norse) influence after and tenuously Austrian (Celts) before that... The native British people were completely wiped out at least twice before that, so frankly all sorts of European nations *could* have a claim if Putin rules applied

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Putin should have became a history teacher, he might enjoy that more

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

History teachers can turn into far-right politicians quite quickly, though.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Even before clicking on the link I was like, oh yeah, like Bernd Höcke.

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