#some blunt bullshit 'haha beans on toast yucky you all eat eels bland food ahaha' shit

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I legitimately think working class folks of english-speaking former imperial nations could all speak to each other and do some real good if we could stop being cunts and treating each other as 'valid targets'.

Like, it honestly feels like instead of unlearning nationalistic type social violence (my nation better than yours because x y or z reason haha sucks to be you foreigner, American exceptionalism type shit), many folks just switched to looking for a people that 'deserve it'. And of course for Americans that seems to be the various folks in the United Kingdom, along with to a lesser extent Canada and Australia. Have all these nations done bad things/colonised/been generally atrocious? yes. Are the white people who live in these countries beneficiaries of this colonisation whether they asked to be or not, and need to analyse their own privilege? yes.

But fuck me, finding a 'valid target' to unload your bitterness on is not a way forward, lads. the working class in the United Kingdom is fuckin starving over here, facing increasingly tightened anti-protest laws, and that's not to mention the struggling minorities and trans folks all across the board suffering under over a decade of conservative rulership which we didn't vote for, because the Tories have been repeatedly supplanting their failed leaders with other ones over and over in this sordid daisy chain of inept over-wealthy evil cunts. And if you're part of Wales, Scotland, Northen Ireland? Good fucking luck being heard. We're unable to get anything done because we're lashed to the prow of a boat helmed by indifferent English voters who couldn't give a fuck about anywhere they can't physically see.

Could have done without seeing that 72k notes post that's Americans making jokes about British people complaining about how mocking our dialects and food is classist. Especially since it's pretty disingenuous to act like this is somehow a valid reaction to the few arseholes who make jokes/ comments about school shootings.

That can be bad and terrible, and is, but you don't have to make British working class leftists (trying to tell you to stop adding fuel to the fire here in our country) out to be whiny little dicks.

I think working class British and American people have a lot more in common than we'd like to think, but this fucking sucks.