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Re:Half a million UK workers drop out of workforce, citing l... by mixtur2021 on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:47PM (#33553878)
This is such a total hit piece with all the right bingo hot words and themes: Brexit, "Island mentality", "Not European", "Sun has set on Britannia", "Pirate roots" (?) to name a few. Total poisonous bile.
Re:Half a million UK workers drop out of workforce, citing l... by niteshade on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:46PM (#33554693)
One could argue over semantics, but the overall analysis is largely correct in my view (as a British born-and-bred citizen). Is there something you particularly disagree with?
Re:Half a million UK workers drop out of workforce, citing l... by mixtur2021 on Thursday November 10, 2022 @06:16PM (#33555018)
The vitriol in the position. Possessing such a negative exaggerated view point is not healthy and doesn't help discourse. UK has challenges yes, but it has a lot of good to offer too. This is an unhealthy and nasty take to denigrate an entire country, worse if it's your own too.
Re:Half a million UK workers drop out of workforce, citing l... by Melting_Harps on Thursday November 10, 2022 @09:14PM (#33556530)
> The vitriol in the position.

My rhetoric and vocabulary aside, the fact remains the UK is a cautionary tale for the only remaining super-power who the World has come to resent in my Life-time due to it's atrocious track record on civil liberties domestically and empire adventurism abroad. I think the parallels are incredibly apt and are getting more dangerous as the World has descended into Authoritarian-fascism seen around this time last century.

Also, I identify as an anarcho-capitalist with staunch crypto-anarchist values and I think we've been pigeon-holed as right wing extremist/terrorists given our views so being called a left-wing doomerist is a new one. But given how the US and UK have treated Julian Assange, someone from our community, one can sort of guess why you'd call me/us that.

Just so it's clear I was pro-Brexit, but not for the reasons you may think; Nigel Farage is the very definition of the opportunist and useful idiots that makes up the UK (all of them really) political system, as is the whole system with it's reshuffling of PMs and crashing of the GBP and pension system to serve the elites with tax exemption while the populace suffers the most.