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[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 days 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...

[-] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 days ago

Brexit, probably. That lost a lot of international respect.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

And the US is on track to beat that record.

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago

I think we already did reputation wise. Economically, give it a bit longer cause I think we're playing great depression 2: techie boogaloo.

[-] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago

Have you not lived through the political shit show we've had? Brexit, COVID scandals, Boris Johnson, Farage, stagnating wages, poor productivity, inflation, high energy prices, NHS in crisis, housing shit show.....and there's no end in sight. Think the UK hasn't been doing that badly is quite a willful refusal to see how we compare to the rest of the world and where we could have been if we functioned better.

[-] luce 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

randomly choosing a random outgroup to collectively hate must be ironically funny sometimes(see: jokes about 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. edit: i should add though, usually this type of humor is meant to be ironic by most of its participants. the more i think about it, the more it seems this is more rude than funny.

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[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days 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?

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Economically it's definitely not doing well. Politically it's been a shitshow but many countries have. I definitely hate the situation but not the people/culture/(country) as such.

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