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Musk wants Yankistan to "liberate" the UK. (www.msn.com)
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[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago

I'd like to add to this, last time Americans were deployed in Britain properly (WW2), they were made to watch training videos about how they need to be less racist.

They then tried to stop black soldiers going into the British pubs anyway, so some Brits started barring US soldiers from their pubs unless they were black.

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago

some Brits started barring US soldiers from their pubs unless they were black.

heartbreaking

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 month ago

Imagine being so racist you need the Brits to tell you to cool it

[-] Aradina@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

A similar thing happened in Australia, culminating in the Battle of Brisbane

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Satan: “whoa, that’s a little evil even for ME!”

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In a lot of ways, Britain did the first 'woke' capitalism. Ending the slave trade on their own terms has turned out to be a two hundred year masterstroke in letting themselves off the hook, while retaining control over all their colonies (for a good extra century)

Then the war happens - all they had to be was less racist than Hitler, and they needed manpower anyway, so they enlist the whole commonwealth into their ranks.

Post war, they encourage immigration to Britain not only to rebuild the country, as the classic Windrush narrative goes, but also because if they don't, the commonwealth will side with the various communist revolutions going on. Winston Churchill is even quoted to have said so.

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago

anakin-padme-1 We're liberating Great Britain.

anakin-padme-2 By eliminating the monarchy, right?

anakin-padme-3

anakin-padme-4 By eliminating the monarchy, right?

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 month ago

They will loot the monarchy and install it in Washington like they always secretly wanted.

[-] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Wait, does this mean we are turning into the code gayass timeline?

I want my mech to be pink

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago

No, it's like with Cyberpunk, no cool things like VR, AV's or cyborgisations, only bad ones like climate crisis and widespread poverty. Same with this, no mechs, only Charles and William.

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

I had the same idea

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

uh oh

he's made me ready to die for my country

the first ounce of patriotism I've felt in years

rule Britannia

you can take my childhood alcoholism from my cold dead hands

[-] RaisedFistJoker@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago

the us invading the uk would be really good for convincing people the west is a set of us client states rather than independent democracies

[-] Eco@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago

i will die before i see an american flag flying over staines or milton keynes

[-] Lerios@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

i don't rate much about this country but the ability to have the odd drink at when you're 8 is certainly one upside. having to wait til 21 is mad.

[-] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

In certain US states (most of them?), it's legal for people under 21 to drink alcohol with parental supervision. Ironically, being exposed to Old Milwaukee Lite piss-water when I was about 7 made me stay away from booze until I was 21.

[-] Lerios@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

yeah genuinely - i feel like associating vodka with my mother/family events much more strongly than Cool Fun Parties definitely helped dull the lustre of going wild when i turned 18, and "underage" drinking made sure i knew my limits by the time i went out into the world on my own. its good for the soul and that's why the average amerikkkan is Like That 😔🙏

[-] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

same.. except i was 17 when started drinking which was at least 2 years after my friends began pestering me to drink with them

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Yeah but the functional drinking age is actually much lower, like the first time I got drunk with friends we were 12

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

You sound like you're from Wisconsin. I guess we're not so different after all.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago

General Cornwallis after I use time travel to convince him of the importance of not losing the revolutionary war against the 13 Colonies:

"So you're telling me that in 250 years some sort of baron of horseless carriages and goldless money will convince the Colonists to invade Mother England?"

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Mexico, (edit: because I forgot) Canada (), Greenland, and now UK. It's giving Fourth Reich

[-] Crucible@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago

Man in the High Castle but instead of the world split between Nazis and Imperial Japan it's split between the US and Israel

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 month ago

Well played

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

Who's the third wheel?

[-] CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

Trump also talked about making Canada the 51st state.

[-] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Here's how Irish Reunification can still happen in 2025:

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anti-thatcher-actionsolidarityi-love-killing-people

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

Ah fuck it, if America is gonna point its military brutality at someone England’s probably the third one I’d want it pointed at.

There are only two countries that I would support the US trying to invade, Israel and Saudi Arabia. England I don’t support it but I’m less opposed than if it was any other country.

[-] TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago

How do you feel about the rest of the U.K. and NI?

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago

leading a dozen Yankee dogs into a field of punji traps by placing signs to free healthcare and donuts along their patrol route

[-] RaisedFistJoker@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

timmy-pray

[-] Gorb@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If brits can agree on anything its hating americans... Too fucking noisy and don't queue properly

[-] DeathToBritain@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

so uh I guess I'm gonna end up meeting a bunch of you on opposite sides of the battlefield then? we gonna make any plans? drinks or something?

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

KKK chapter gets into stabbing match over argument on who’s the most racist.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Santa heard my prayers.

ANGLOSPHERE INTRA-FACTIONAL WAR NOW!! lets-fucking-go

I want King Charles and the Nonce Family to be the new underground hole meme.

[-] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Critical support for the US restarting the troubles

[-] Aradina@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

Uncritical support to the Bloke's Resistance Army in their struggle against US imperialism

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

They can be the 53rd state

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