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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.
Background: I worked with a Canadian in Australia whose mother is from Montreal and father is English speaking Canadian (I wanna assume Toronto because it's where she grew up) but her French is considerably better than most non French Canadians. She was working front of house in our restaurant/bar in Australia, 3 French backpackers came in and ordered in some slow broken English. My colleague decided to just respond in French because her French is better than their English. These Frenchmen had the audacity to audibly scoff then continue in broken English. She came back to the kitchen and complain about how rude these dickheads were being and Parisians deserve their reputation.
So, a few weeks ago in China I was retelling this story because the arrogance of the French came up, and the Yank at the table went "oh they were probably upset she was desecrating their language lol".
First, one of the Brits spoke up and goes "oh like you're doing with English?". The Yank goes on to say "oh no the average American accent sounds better than the average English, only James Bond (he meant Received Pronunciation) English sounds better, guv'na". Second, the Belgian lady at our table goes "no, really, most Parisians are dicks about other French accents"
This Yank proceeded to defend the French against actual Europeans with an anecdote about the time he went to "Noht-er Daym" in Paris 10 years ago and the people were nice. Belgian lady goes "yeah you went to a tourist location as a tourist, and it's Notruh Dam". Yankee didn't even know Belgians speak French.
Americans are a different breed. Mansplaining both English and French (a language he doesn't speak) to the English and a Belgian who has French as her first language. You can only chalk up so much to him being drunk.
Lmao it's absolutely wild innit, like I get called posh ALL the time because I have a neutral accent and Americans are like "oh you fram landaaan" and it's like sorry your only exposure to British accents is Elden ring.