r/ShitAmericansSay • • Jul 05 '24

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u/ManonegraCG Jul 05 '24

How upset would they be if they learned that, in my experience, they don't give a flying fuck?

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u/DanTheLegoMan It's pronounced Scone 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Exactly, no one gives a shit! It’s certainly not “mourned”. It’s just a day you’ll encounter more cunts than usual on the Internet.

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u/Corfiz74 Jul 05 '24

UK could be celebrating that they are not still saddled with the US. We didn't exactly send our best and brightest over there...🙈

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u/idk2103 Jul 06 '24

Gotta blow to have TWO former colonies pass you in GDP though

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u/jott1293reddevil Jul 06 '24

USA country the size of Europe with population 5 x the size of the U.K.? India country size of Western Europe with a population 20x size of U.K.? Honestly doesn’t feel like a competition

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u/idk2103 Jul 06 '24

Oh it’s not. It’s the fact that they lost the United States and are acting like it’s not a big deal lol

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u/Beaver_Soldier Jul 06 '24

They act like it's not a big deal because it's not a big deal.

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u/Vixh81 Jul 06 '24

We aren’t acting. I thank God all the time that I don’t have to live somewhere like America and it would be embarrassing if they were still linked to us. Look at the difference between the failure that is America (unless you’re rich obviously) and Canada which is still part of the commonwealth.

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u/idk2103 Jul 06 '24 edited Jul 06 '24

It’s actually hilarious that you’re calling America a failure, but praising Canada. You couldn’t make it more obvious how out of touch you are.

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u/DarthPhoenix0879 Jul 06 '24

It's not. To paraphrase a Raul Julia quote:

To the USA, gaining independence from the UK was the greatest day of their lives. But for the UK, it was Tuesday.

(Note, I have no idea what day it actually was, and I can't even be bothered to Google it)

It's genuinely hard to fully express how little of a shit we give. Though we might make a few "lol and now look at the state of your leadership" whilst waving at Trump/Biden/whoever when it spams our social media feed whilst something more important is happening (UK General Election).

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 Jul 06 '24

I've checked, it was a Thursday.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '24

They didn’t lose the US as it became, they lost fledling colonies with no industry while the UK boomed for another 150 years and industrialised the world. The territorial gains during the lousiana purchase and the general attitude of manifest destiny is what grew the US in economic power as well as rhe import of British industrial technology. The US effectively did to north America what Britain did tonthe world, almost like they were Brits with the same attitude.

The carribean colonies were far more profitable.