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He is very incorrect

This to me encapsulates the American "progressive" liberals illiteracy regarding politics and they're inability to recognise that other countries however adjacent in the imperial core just do not operate in the same wacky way US politics does.

Hearing someone so embarrassingly mischaracterise several UK cities with a rich political history down to "nooaaww the inner cities aaaarrrr liberull but the suburbs are conservative" and then just misrepresent or flatly get wrong the political landscape currently is just wild given his confidence.

My dude the incredibly down trodden satellite housing to a large city you keep circling back to is not rich and conservative you fucking dolt.

Progressivism = china town and liberalism

That's it, that was his whole spiel was

"this city is progressive, i mean they have china town.... liberalism"

THATS IT!!

This is someone thinks they are a socialist and knows what privatisation is but their understanding of even liberalism is "liberalism = progressive social justice" so like lmao.

And before anyone shakes their torches at me, this dudes is literally mansplaining this to this disinterested women about a country he isn't from, about policies he doesn't understand.

Wine cellar liberal thinking he can problem shoot a system he's not involved in or aware of.

Wild. My family should have never left Cork.

  • Verenata
    hexagon
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    18 hours ago

    I so wanted to be like "lmao that's fucking wrong" but like woman travelling on her own. Not the time to be calling yankees out fr fr.

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      14 hours ago

      Extremely understandable.

      I absolutely could not have resisted telling them how wrong they were, but then I've got the cultural armour of being older, white, large, and very northern when I feel the need to go i-think-that hasan-stfu

      • Verenata
        hexagon
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        13 hours ago

        Aaaaaaaa how northern?

        Are we a "why aye man" northern or a "ack i canny do that kid" northern?

        • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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          13 hours ago

          Not going to get specific, but let's just say...

          • Typing = 5% northern (occassional flourishes, but mostly trained out of me)
          • Phone voice = 20% northern (Americans ask what that accent is, Southerners think I'm "broad")
          • Annoyed phone voice = 40% northern (Americans don't know what's happening, Southerners say "umm" nervously a lot)
          • Everyday casual conversation = 60% northern (a mixture of northern slang and tones will pleasantly confuse even the occassional midlands-lower-northerner)
          • Friendly drunken conversation = 80% northern (some statements are just noises, others are long with frequent asides to explain what the hell I'm saying to most people not from the main two places I've lived)
          • Annoyed drunken conversation = 100% northern (seems to distress and confuse people even if I soften the edges, gets reactions as though someone had stumbled across a bear without knowing what it was)
          • Verenata
            hexagon
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            13 hours ago

            Lmao preach!!!!

            I'm a little posh southern girl to my friends until I get mad and then my roots come out lmao.

              • Verenata
                hexagon
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                8 hours ago

                Omg I love it!!!