Interesting how dang allows HN to turn into 4chan every single time an opportunity arises for some xenophobe to espouse their hatred for British people.

We probably have a different definition for xenophobia.

Is anything I said not factually accurate? What triggered you? Tge empire bit? The British empire was huge and controled the world at one point in time. The fact that the economy is collapsing? The fact that immigrants are treated like shift in UK?

Every country and political system has to live with the monsters they created, UK included.

> Is anything I said not factually accurate?

well, this isn't:

> The fact that the economy is collapsing?

in 2023 UK is economy predicted to grow, albeit slowly

meanwhile the Germany economy is predicted to contract

You didn't say anything unreasonable or inaccurate at all.

HN or HN mods are against British people? Have you not seen a single one of the Monty Python links I've posted?

This is an extreme case of how everyone with strong passions always feels like the community and/or mods are against them*. It's striking to what absurd lengths this principle goes. I don't mean pick on you personally—this mechanism seems to be hard-wired in all of us.

I promise you that neither the mods nor the community hate British people. Personally I love them/you, and I'm confident most of the community here ranges from love to neutral, and nowhere near hate. No doubt some nasty anti-British comments have appeared here—but that's because everything appears here. It's a large public internet forum.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Edit: it unfortunately looks like you've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly; examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36367395 (June 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34965339 (Feb 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34802872 (Feb 2023)

We have to ban accounts that post like that. I don't want to ban you, so please don't post like that!

Interesting. Why are the conditions to join the eu shit? What’s the purpose? And how does it correlate to a steady stream of convenient immigrants from within the eu towards other states within the union? And why is it always the same states that attract? During the brexit campaign no one asked why people are leaving. What causes such massive displacement of people within the eu?

It's quite naive that you don't think the EU is harmed significantly by Britain leaving. The EU would take Britain back in a heartbeat.

You seem to be making the same flawed assumption that the vast majority of british population does. The EU is not, and has never been, a project primarily driven by economic interests. It is a socio-political union, predicated on the fundamental principle of co-operation between different cultures, who regard each other as equals. But this will always be at odds with the unique superiority complex inherent in the culture of (mainly) white english people. This why UK never actually belonged in the EU and ended up causing endless friction; De Gaulle anticipated this and even blocked UK's membership several times. The reality is the EU was more relieved, than harmed by brexit.

France will never agree to the special rules the UK negotiated when they were part of the EU.

We also do not particularly keep the UK (politically speaking) close to our hearts. The Calais situation, pour contact for submarines passed to the UK (and US), etc.

Pour gouvernement is seen as weak when it comes to conflicts with the UK so politicians will need to take that into account as well.

The UK chipped in a big chunk of their budget, second to Germany. They'd probably like the money even if we are annoying.