• NoLemurs@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I feel like every story I hear out of the UK lately is some weird combination of stupid and vaguely dystopian.

    Are things ok over there?

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      5 minutes ago

      I don’t feel like any progress has been made in the past 25 years. Progress in some areas is offset by complete fuck ups in other areas

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      8 hours ago

      Bruh… Orwell literally wrote about how authoritarian the British government was in the 50s. Of course 1984 was highly exaggerated at that point, but the point still stands.

      No, the world’s former premier colonizer is not okay. All that shit they did is turning inwards, just like in US. Not saying the common person deserves is, unlike weird tankies fetishizing suffering of the west as some kind of karmaic justice. The Global South is still suffering too. No one is having a good time.