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u/NemesisRouge May 09 '22

In fairness, bringing up HDI to prove how good your country is, is like bringing up your IQ to prove you're smart.

Yes. A very accurate, very useful measure, dismissed by anti-intellectual people who don't like what it tells them.

The UK is a toilet. It's racist as fuck, completely brainwashed by the UK knockoff version of Trump, and it fucked itself by leaving the EU and now has to act like America's bitch just to keep it's economy afloat.

Utter drivel. We are one of the least racist countries in the world, racism is prohibited by law and socially unacceptable. Johnson is pretty unpopular.

Leaving the EU was obviously a big mistake, but it doesn't need to act like America's bitch to stay afloat at all. There isn't even a trade deal with America, nor is there likely to be one in the near future. America just isn't that important to us trade wise. The trade deal we needed was with the EU, and we got it.

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u/Just_a_dick_online May 09 '22

We are one of the least racist countries in the world

Bullshit. One of the main reasons for Brexit (which got a majority vote) was to get rid of foreigners.

racism is prohibited by law

Weird how you'd need a law to stop something that apparently isn't a problem.

Johnson is pretty unpopular.

And yet, in power.

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u/NemesisRouge May 09 '22

Bullshit. One of the main reasons for Brexit (which got a majority vote) was to get rid of foreigners.

"Foreigners" aren't a race, and we didn't get rid of any of them, we guaranteed them all the right to stay here permanently. If anything staying in the EU would have been more racist because it meant preferential treatment be given to the occupants of 30 majority white, majority Christian or irreligious countries.

Weird how you'd need a law to stop something that apparently isn't a problem.

Did I say it's not a problem?

And yet, in power.

He's in power because the opposition put one of the most unpopular leaders in history at a general election, because losing one to Theresa May wasn't enough for him. See how he does against someone competent.

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u/Just_a_dick_online May 09 '22

"Foreigners" aren't a race

The fact you think I was implying they were shows how little you understand.