re: UK Residents shocked at how poor they are compared to Americans

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In all seriousness, what does the UK produce and give to the world?

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Historically? Almost everything we value - the Industrial Revolution, a brilliant canon of literature, the antecedent institutions that led to the American Revolution, governmental institutions spread throughout the world, a huge part in the ending of slavery.

Currently? Kier Starmer, rape gangs and spensive lectricity.

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I saw a video of someone walking around the UK and it's shocking how they destroyed it is . It's like one big downtown LA now. The guy filming was scared to death to be filming because he knows that if they see him walking around with a camera filming, he might get his throat slit

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Okay, this is complete fake news. Sorry.

I have a house in England. There is no place in the UK where I can’t walk around filming. Zero such places.

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This is why they did not want the US doing anything with Iran. Iran was a cash cow for the banking, insurance cartels.

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I’m not disagreeing with this, but I’m inclined to. I don’t think the UK had much motivation to protect Iran. I think their reasons for not supporting the US had zero to do with insurance and were mostly this:

1. They expected chaos to ensue which would drive up oil prices.
2. They have severe fiscal problems and don’t want the added expense.
3. They have a lot of Muslim voters and they are pandering to them.
4. Iran bribes their politicians to encourage illegal immigration, so they (Iran) already have their hooks in them.

I've been to England and Ireland once. My take? America is the land of plenty. Europe is the land of scarcity .

In all seriousness, they had to morph into a trade and service economy because natural resources are limited.

Have you read “Guns, Germs, and Steel”…?

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I keep telling gloom and doom populists this every time they start to melt claiming that the United States is ruined.

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You must be talking about a different board. All the doom and gloom here comes from the people who call populists cultists for not being doom and gloom enough.

It wasn't populists predicting WW3, mass inflation, or $10 gas. It's not the populists ignoring everything Trump does domestically just so they can say nothing is being done. It's not the populists complaining that tax breaks increase spending. It's not the populists complaining about the External Revenue Service.

Watching the Brit Reacts videos is nice because at least someone appreciates this country. The left hates it, and the right does nothing but complain.

For many years it was awesome music. Not so much these days.

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I've lived in Europe and I've lived in Mississippi. If you put a gun to my head and made me choose it wouldn't be Mississippi.

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Powerman

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fricking idiot

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They're monetizing our narcisism.

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Maybe.

Maybe America is fricking awesome and way better than their shitholes, and conservative Americans already know this.

I've never been to Europe but I've been to (and lived for a number of years) on a couple of other continents, and was always glad to have been born in, raised in, and live in the United States of America.