Britain Sucks
POSTED BY: Wulfenstar
UPDATED: Sunday, July 5, 2026 16:21
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
I guess that's the real difference between us Citizen. I disagree with that assessment of the posters here. But if it makes you feel better by putting others down and flaunting your so-called intellect, then by all means carry on.
Believe me, comparing myself favourably to the witless self important morons, who immediately begin shouting insults the moment someone disagrees with them because they're incapable of accepting other view points or even forming a logical argument, is neither 'putting them down' nor building myself up. If anything it's relatively a compliment.
Oh I see. So by saying this :
Originally posted by citizen:
"... but you see most of the American's on this board are too stupid, ignorant and insular to comment on anything that happens outside of their own State with any accuracy..."
you were actually complimenting us stupid, ignorant American posters. Thanks for clearing that up.
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Oh I see. So by saying this :
Originally posted by citizen:
"... but you see most of the American's on this board are too stupid, ignorant and insular to comment on anything that happens outside of their own State with any accuracy..."
you were actually complimenting us stupid, ignorant American posters. Thanks for clearing that up.
Relatively speaking, yes. I mean if I was truthful about some of the posters here, I'd have to be much more eviscerating.
I mean, you really do have to doubt the intellect of someone who's very best shot is "I'm rubber, you're glue":
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Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Good description of yourself there, Shitizen.
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
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Friend Citizen...your last 2 posts have really exposed some basic truths about the RWED. What the fuck are any of us doing in here? We each only preach to our own choirs. We don't convince or convert anyone. We all just like to shoot our holes off, because we can. This place is like a bad experiment in mental masterbation.
This place must end.
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Again, Shitizen, go back to drinking your tea.
Or at least fix the problems in your own glass house before you think to toss your comments at American problems.
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Friend Citizen...your last 2 posts have really exposed some basic truths about the RWED. What the fuck are any of us doing in here? We each only preach to our own choirs. We don't convince or convert anyone. We all just like to shoot our holes off, because we can. This place is like a bad experiment in mental masterbation.
This place must end.
Actually I'm yanking your chain as much as anything, but really you started it, so there. I'm fairly confident that, whatever my faults, not listening to people I disagree with certainly isn't one of them.
Having said that though, when a citizen of the currently only Imperial super power with the biggest gap between rich and poor, lowest social mobility, and amongst the lowest scores in social freedoms among developed nations, who just started a thread titled "Britain Sucks" says:
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Or at least fix the problems in your own glass house before you think to toss your comments at American problems.
I do tend to switch off...
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
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This is why I have a modicum of respect for Fredfirma.
At least hes doing something.
Not just bitching.
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Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Again, Shitizen, go back to drinking your tea.
Or at least fix the problems in your own glass house before you think to toss your comments at American problems.
Clarify something for me:
Who was it that started this thread entitled "Britain Sucks"?
So have you fixed all the problems in your own country before tossing off comments about British problems?
Hypocrite much?
This world is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel.
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Mikey, I don't think Wulf is malicious, just inexperienced, and still struggling against a not fully shedded set of the misperceptions foisted upon us all by mass media and the public education system.
But credit where credit is due, how many folk actually try to smash the way out of their own plastic bubbles, to reach ugly truths it's so much easier to ignore, deny and insulate ones self from ?
And yes, he comes off rather badly, makes an ass of himself a bit here and there, and catches some chops busting for it, not all of which is undeserved - but you and I are assholes too you know.
Seriously, he does have a point about Britain becoming such a surveillance state, and the whole somewhat ridiculous fear and banning of anything that could concievably be used as a weapon.
That IS, to the point it's gone, is going, more than a bit disturbing, and in a distant sort of way offensive to the american spirit, sure.
But they AIN'T americans, they are a different culture underneath all the surface similarities, and at *this* point in time their Gov't has a somewhat more effective set of checks and balances than ours does - especially in the immediate wake of the abysmal failures of our own.
I wouldn't say they "suck" though, just that they are making some bitter mistakes that history shows will bite them on the ass, just like Chavez is making quite a few of his own by not giving thought to the fact that whoever comes after him is likely going to abuse the excess powers he has usurped to improve the lot of his country and it's people.
Americans in particular are notorious for the mistake of not understanding the actions of other folk in their own country's cultural context, and this does seem to work both ways as most folk from other countries think of us as insane for actually preferring to risk violence and danger in exchange for a greater portion of such rarely used freedoms.
Citizen has concerns about a bunch of cowboy maniacs so closely culturally, politically and economically tied to his own country, and probably more than a few concerns about his own Gov't but to his mind that's more his business than ours.
Some of us have concerns about a bunch of nanny state wanna-be socialists so closely culturally, politically and economically tied to our own country, and probably more than a few concerns about our own Gov't to our mind more our business than his.
But frankly, we got one stinkin planet in all the universe right now, and all of us live on it - long as others live the way THEY want and don't come over here shoving it on us, we can sneer it at from a nice vague distance without undue concern.
It's when somebody goes into the land of another and tries to force their way of life onto another people that EVERYONE has cause for concern, and to be brutally honest right now two countries on this stupid little mudball are the worst for it, and the other one is just a technical bully kicking a weaker country no one seems to really give a shit about...
So yeah, for us to bitch about the way other folk in some other country live their lives and run their governments is a bit out of sorts, especially while trying to shove the american way down the throats of two other countries on a bayonet.
In the context of that, running down someone else's culture while standing in the country doing that shoving - dude, that's like wandering around a redneck variant of oktoberfest wearing a kick me sign, the results are a foregone conclusion.
I have concerns too, but the problem of ridiculous levels (in the opintion of an american) of surveillance and weapon laws in Britain... fuck, man... that's for the BRITISH to solve, don't we got enough problems here ?
I say we focus our efforts HERE and show folks WHY it's such a terrible idea and do the american thing... I don't mean the usual american hypocrisy of saying one thing and doin something else neither, I mean the american SPIRIT, the thing that encouraged the French to build the statue of liberty and send it to us.
I say we smash that shit flat HE
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Britain's biggest problem is that it's STILL trying to conform to the US model. It's become the love child Maggie and Ronnie never had. Britain would have been better off if the two had just gotten room and fucked each other instead of the country.
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