• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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      10 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…

      • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.works
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        10 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?

      • luce [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        8 days 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.