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[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 107 points 6 days ago

I've got a friend trying to move from the United States to England to escape our current shit show, and I've been telling him that England tends to do what America does, just with a posh accent to give it an air of legitimacy.

[-] huppakee@feddit.nl 38 points 6 days ago

If you think they do it with a posh accent you've not been to England lol

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 days ago

in US english posh is a synonym for british

/s (½)

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That doesn't scan. Posh Spice would by association be British Spice, and everyone knows that doesn't exist

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago

What Americans think of as a British accent is an accent that does in fact not exist. Literally no one speaks like that, it's just playing into the stereotype at this point.

But we can't make movies with genuine accents because Americans wouldn't be able to understand it.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

I'm mainly thinking of Tony Blair making the same case for invading Iraq that George W. Bush was, just with the accent.

[-] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 12 points 6 days ago

Nowhere is truly safe at this point. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 6 points 6 days ago

I'm currently working out moving to Jamaica. Got a friend there to help, but he says it ain't all sunshine and cheap pot like the movies.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 30 points 6 days ago

I'm not LGBT but I usually use that as a guideline of "is this a good place to be?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Jamaica

And its not looking great.

Pick somewhere else.

[-] SloppyJoe@toast.ooo 16 points 6 days ago

Super simple and smart way to sort places that care about human rights. Thanks for sharing.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

At a certain time (around 2000) I'd count the number of women/men outside (like 20 to 40 year olds), very telling about the insecurity in a city.

[-] Nalivai@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Oh, as not great as they are, they aren't even close to being as bad as US.

[-] Kage520@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

I think he is saying they are following the same path, just a few steps behind. So if the US is running over a cliff, the UK will probably consider that a blazed trail and head in that direction too.

So yeah, the US sped up. Doesn't mean the UK isn't trying to follow.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Modern history, maybe not, but historically, the British Empire was the worst.

[-] Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Historically no one was strictly speaking good.

[-] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago

At this point, leaving England for America is the saner choice...

I mean unless you're brown, then ICE will just lock you away if you try

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago

I don't know, we locked up an extremely white new Zealander for 3 weeks at the border recently...

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago

And several white Canadians. There are likely dozens more locked in captivity that the media hasn’t reported on.

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

And don’t forget when the US coast card kidnapped a Canadian fisherman from Canadian waters and then jailed him in the US.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

They drove across the border to arrest a Quebec fisherman and then sunk his boat and kidnapped him and detained him. Americans are terrorists.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Nah. It's not great here but that's like leaving the frying pan and jumping into a volcano that's actively erupting. ICE aren't just racist, they get off on hurting people and they're really not bothered who they are.

In some ways they're very progressive. They abduct and abuse everyone equally.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

In some ways they’re very progressive. They abduct and abuse everyone equally.

💀

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

They've got better Healthcare (for now). Other than that, yeah I don't think they're doing much better. In a lot of ways they're worse. It could be argued either way which is worse, depending on your opinions on a few things.

[-] bignate31@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

eh, we've got pubs and chips.

oh also went back to the States last week and was appalled that a pint can cost upwards of $10 when a decade ago it was only $6 (London prices have stayed around £6-7). throw on the whole tip racketeering insanity and I'd much rather be in England.

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