Galaxy brain take: a society can be reflected by the most basic of infastructure, manhole covers.
The UK is one of the few countries on this planet to use square manhole covers.
They can literally fall back into the fucking hole if you don't provide some top notch cheeky banter to it and bless the queen and sacrifice a proper buttered biscuit and a tin of kippers.
Even shit hole counties don't subject themselves to such self inflicted posh stupidity for aesthetic reasons. They use circular manhole covers because any other shape would be fucking arrogantly stupid.
Only the British are capable of such self loathing of course they blame the poor people who couldn't ever have anything to do with any decisions made because otherwise they might have to reflect on why their dumb country is the way it is.
The UK also tried to make planes with square 'windows' and they fell apart mid-flight lmao. They always have to be different to everyone else, even to their detriment, they are so insecure it's cute.
I mean it is well understood that elitism doesn't work, and does nothing except prevent actually capable people from rising to the top, but the Brits figured out the solution to that ages ago.
You go colonize another continent, go all 'for queen and country,' but never actually go back, ever.
Doesn't really change anything for her though, as she's definitely not working class, and as she is not a gypsy or Irish isn't very likely to face prejudice.
Only place she'd find adversity is dealing with old money elites.
Also what a shit take. All those Polaks, Romanians, Lithuanians, etc are not living it up in the UK because they are “white”. They would probably get more hate from the British then her
Did you misread the quote? She said the playing field is stacked against anyone that ISN’T white or IS working class. I missed the “is” the first time at first
This weirdo has ILR status -- indefinite leave to remain, a semi-permanent form of visa that means as long as you don't leave the country for two years, you can stay indefinitely.
The bizarre part about this is that status already qualifies her for British citizenship. She's been on ILR for over twelve months and lived in the UK for more than five years, so as far as I can tell she qualifies -- not like she doesn't easily have the money, either.
ILR is even a fast track. She doesn't have to take any knowledge or language tests for citizenship.
This entire drama is over a femoid that could have become a citizen at any time complaining that she can't get the bigger UK music awards because she doesn't have citizenship.
What about Japan?
Rina says she considers herself fully British and was raised here since 5 -- no idea why she would continue to hold Japanese citizenship over British if she really feels that way. Not sure why it isn't the obvious practical choice to become a British citizen. Twittercels say that isn't 'the point' however.
Isn't this an agenda post?
No, because no one here actually cares about UK immigration law, not even me. Therefore it cannot be an agenda. Fact.
I remember in a BBC post-Brexit "what the fuck happened" article, this Polish woman was crying about how it wasn't fair that she couldn't vote in the election despite not being a citizen. What fucking planet do these people live on where you get to reap benefits of citizenship without committing 100%?
Burger here, and we deal with the same bullshit regarding illegal immigrants and healthcare, welfare, social security, college, etc. Apparently people believe that western nations should just be a smorgasbord for anybody, whereas their nations should remain free and pristine.
This has been one of the strangest things I've witnessed over the last couple of decades - the leftward movement towards hyper capitalism.
Basically it's like this - part of the benefit you get for belonging to a nation, or more accurately trade as you trade some of your rights for this, is not just your right to your own labor, but your labor right to access the nations market. Since Clinton signed NAFTA in the 90's almost every left wing government in the US and Europe has been trying to strip this right from the working class.
To put it in layman terms - giving other people access to your labor market devalues the price of that labor (basic principles of supply and demand). The only people who profit from this are the capitalists who have access to cheaper labor and potentially consumers who will have access to cheaper goods (although cost savings are usually eaten up by inflation and profit taking and seldom passed on to consumers).
Open Borders is basically an AnCap position, yet it's being pitched to dumb ass left wing kids as anti-racism. Well, maybe that's not fair - they might not be totally stupid, they might just be aware of their class privilege, which is kind of even more disgusting because they talk about concern for the poor and working class out of one side of their mouth while supporting policies they know actively hurt those people and benefit themselves.
Hey man, you too can have a nervous breakdown at work, quit your job, sell all your shit and then move to another coast. Don't let your dreams be dreams.
What fucking planet do these people live on where you get to reap benefits of citizenship without committing 100%?
Counterpoint: Getting a British citizenship is basically just pissing away £1200 solely for an ability to tick a box every five years.
It's quite stupid that you can stay resident in the UK for 20 years and be treated as a de facto citizen in every regard EXCEPT voting rights, while some Indian immigrant can pretty much just turn up fresh off the boat and vote.
What world do you live in where Indian immigrants get citizenship the moment they get to UK? And those that do have to surrender their Indian citizenship first, we don't allow dual citizenship either.
They don't get a citizenship, but as members of the Commonwealth they can vote pretty much straight away as long as they have a registered place of residence.
This one girl I used to plow said as she was leaving Jaypan, her aunts essentially told her that she's not REAL Japanese for spending half her life overseas.
no idea why she would continue to hold Japanese citizenship over British if she really feels that way
Japan has a rule where if you gain citizenship to another country, you automatically give up your citizenship in Japan. According to her, she doesn't want to give up her Japanese citizenship because some of her family lives there and it would be like cutting ties to them.
Yep, but the US doesn't actively enforce the dual citizenship rules and does not require naturalized citizens to relinquish citizenship in their country of origin
Imagine being a Japanese citizen and living in the UK and acting like the UK is xenophobic, and totally just skating past the fact that japan is one of the most xenophobic places on earth. I live in japan, they don’t give a fuck about anyone or anything that isn’t Japanese. Trying making a “muh diversity“ argument in japan, literally no one gives a fuck.
Took a Japan vacation once and took the slow train to a small town outside of Mt Fuji. Walked by an older gentleman who made a tut sound and spit on the ground as I walked by.
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61 HyperIceCube 2020-07-29
This isn't even uk's fault, japan doesn't allow duel citizenship, also why the hell would anyone want to be British?
46 OceanGeese 2020-07-29
That small detail hasn't stopped her:
The working class has literally no power or status within the UK, this is some rich girl blaming peasants for something another nation did.
If that isn't a galaxy brained take then what is?
26 Naziwrecker 2020-07-29
Galaxy brain take: a society can be reflected by the most basic of infastructure, manhole covers.
The UK is one of the few countries on this planet to use square manhole covers.
They can literally fall back into the fucking hole if you don't provide some top notch cheeky banter to it and bless the queen and sacrifice a proper buttered biscuit and a tin of kippers.
Even shit hole counties don't subject themselves to such self inflicted posh stupidity for aesthetic reasons. They use circular manhole covers because any other shape would be fucking arrogantly stupid.
Only the British are capable of such self loathing of course they blame the poor people who couldn't ever have anything to do with any decisions made because otherwise they might have to reflect on why their dumb country is the way it is.
25 CockDockingMaster 2020-07-29
The UK also tried to make planes with square 'windows' and they fell apart mid-flight lmao. They always have to be different to everyone else, even to their detriment, they are so insecure it's cute.
20 Stolbinksiy 2020-07-29
If you believe that, wait until you find out about the French.
10 Mayos_side 2020-07-29
The French at least have an aesthetic. They at least have that going for them.
14 Stolbinksiy 2020-07-29
I was unaware that being pretentious and self consciously contrarian was enough to count as an aesthetic.
10 Mayos_side 2020-07-29
Vent
4 OfficialBeetroot 2020-07-29
Name one thing that makes British 'people' notable or in any way memorable
6 BigBluntsMcBongford 2020-07-29
baked beans for breakfast
4 hyphenjack 2020-07-29
...do you know what sub you’re on?
14 aqouta 2020-07-29
The French don't even have sentience.
16 OceanGeese 2020-07-29
I mean it is well understood that elitism doesn't work, and does nothing except prevent actually capable people from rising to the top, but the Brits figured out the solution to that ages ago.
You go colonize another continent, go all 'for queen and country,' but never actually go back, ever.
16 DuckSosu 2020-07-29
Pretty sure you read it wrong, plus she worded it a little oddly.
She's saying it's stacked against all non-whites + the working class (including whites). I think.
5 OceanGeese 2020-07-29
It is hardly clear, but I probably did.
Doesn't really change anything for her though, as she's definitely not working class, and as she is not a gypsy or Irish isn't very likely to face prejudice.
Only place she'd find adversity is dealing with old money elites.
7 CRYSTAL_HYPOTHESIS 2020-07-29
Posh people get acting/TV jobs because nobody wants to hear the rarted gutteral orcish of a northern monkey on the tellybox old chum
6 GhoulishBibliotheca 2020-07-29
Also what a shit take. All those Polaks, Romanians, Lithuanians, etc are not living it up in the UK because they are “white”. They would probably get more hate from the British then her
2 Noreaga 2020-07-29
Bitch can stay in Japan then where there's 0.1% white people. Did she forget Asians are the majority in the world?
1 CriticalAttempt2 2020-07-29
I was with them till the last bit.
Isn't the whole point of being working class to have the field stacked against you? Why else would anyone choose to be WC?
1 whosthatcreep 2020-07-29
She said that? Or us it in the vice Story?
1 kratoswithcappuccino 2020-07-29
Did you misread the quote? She said the playing field is stacked against anyone that ISN’T white or IS working class. I missed the “is” the first time at first
6 Qwagsoir 2020-07-29
Rather be a filthy bong than a weeb tbh
2 whosthatcreep 2020-07-29
The food THE. FOOD.
40 Crook_and_Crank 2020-07-29
Hello everyone, it's me, the Bong Defence Force!
This weirdo has ILR status -- indefinite leave to remain, a semi-permanent form of visa that means as long as you don't leave the country for two years, you can stay indefinitely.
The bizarre part about this is that status already qualifies her for British citizenship. She's been on ILR for over twelve months and lived in the UK for more than five years, so as far as I can tell she qualifies -- not like she doesn't easily have the money, either.
ILR is even a fast track. She doesn't have to take any knowledge or language tests for citizenship.
This entire drama is over a femoid that could have become a citizen at any time complaining that she can't get the bigger UK music awards because she doesn't have citizenship.
Rina says she considers herself fully British and was raised here since 5 -- no idea why she would continue to hold Japanese citizenship over British if she really feels that way. Not sure why it isn't the obvious practical choice to become a British citizen. Twittercels say that isn't 'the point' however.
No, because no one here actually cares about UK immigration law, not even me. Therefore it cannot be an agenda. Fact.
24 NJ_Escapee 2020-07-29
I remember in a BBC post-Brexit "what the fuck happened" article, this Polish woman was crying about how it wasn't fair that she couldn't vote in the election despite not being a citizen. What fucking planet do these people live on where you get to reap benefits of citizenship without committing 100%?
25 Crook_and_Crank 2020-07-29
They live on planet European Union.
Please send help it's very stupid here.
10 cmh2024 2020-07-29
Burger here, and we deal with the same bullshit regarding illegal immigrants and healthcare, welfare, social security, college, etc. Apparently people believe that western nations should just be a smorgasbord for anybody, whereas their nations should remain free and pristine.
4 VidiotGamer 2020-07-29
This has been one of the strangest things I've witnessed over the last couple of decades - the leftward movement towards hyper capitalism.
Basically it's like this - part of the benefit you get for belonging to a nation, or more accurately trade as you trade some of your rights for this, is not just your right to your own labor, but your labor right to access the nations market. Since Clinton signed NAFTA in the 90's almost every left wing government in the US and Europe has been trying to strip this right from the working class.
To put it in layman terms - giving other people access to your labor market devalues the price of that labor (basic principles of supply and demand). The only people who profit from this are the capitalists who have access to cheaper labor and potentially consumers who will have access to cheaper goods (although cost savings are usually eaten up by inflation and profit taking and seldom passed on to consumers).
Open Borders is basically an AnCap position, yet it's being pitched to dumb ass left wing kids as anti-racism. Well, maybe that's not fair - they might not be totally stupid, they might just be aware of their class privilege, which is kind of even more disgusting because they talk about concern for the poor and working class out of one side of their mouth while supporting policies they know actively hurt those people and benefit themselves.
10 fat_cox 2020-07-29
Should have learned to code
5 S-K_123 2020-07-29
The elites are the real AnCaps, lolberts are the rightoid useful idiot
3 pandeyji_ka_ladka 2020-07-29
WTF an informed opinion on arr slash drama OUUUUU
13 HyperIceCube 2020-07-29
The funniest people are the ones that want national universal healthcare and open borders. You literally can’t have both it’s an oxymoron
10 CRYSTAL_HYPOTHESIS 2020-07-29
You can have them both, for a few years at least.
7 TotesAgotes 2020-07-29
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/2020-us-election-vote-trump-campaign-a8836076.html
5 NJ_Escapee 2020-07-29
Sorry bongs, but by allowing a frog to write this, you've violated the NAP.
2 Thegrapejellyman 2020-07-29
Nice username : l
1 NJ_Escapee 2020-07-29
Hey man, you too can have a nervous breakdown at work, quit your job, sell all your shit and then move to another coast. Don't let your dreams be dreams.
1 Thegrapejellyman 2020-07-29
Sounds like an intruiging proposal however.
Oceans are overrated tbh
I'm from south Jersey so the only thing i want to see before i die is a hill.
6 PuppySlayer 2020-07-29
Counterpoint: Getting a British citizenship is basically just pissing away £1200 solely for an ability to tick a box every five years.
It's quite stupid that you can stay resident in the UK for 20 years and be treated as a de facto citizen in every regard EXCEPT voting rights, while some Indian immigrant can pretty much just turn up fresh off the boat and vote.
2 Sasanka_Of_Gauda 2020-07-29
What world do you live in where Indian immigrants get citizenship the moment they get to UK? And those that do have to surrender their Indian citizenship first, we don't allow dual citizenship either.
1 PuppySlayer 2020-07-29
They don't get a citizenship, but as members of the Commonwealth they can vote pretty much straight away as long as they have a registered place of residence.
1 Sasanka_Of_Gauda 2020-07-29
Lol Anglos are unironically retarded. And here I thought only commonwealth stuff that mattered anymore was the games.
13 KaiserIguana 2020-07-29
My uneducated guess is tax reasons.
10 Crook_and_Crank 2020-07-29
Release the Rina tax returns! Bongs have a right to know!
7 ironicshitpostr 2020-07-29
The only Bong with rights is the Queen, the rest are just there on her sufferance
3 Dad2376 2020-07-29
Based and monarchpilled
8 theworstever 2020-07-29
Because the Japs are weird.
This one girl I used to plow said as she was leaving Jaypan, her aunts essentially told her that she's not REAL Japanese for spending half her life overseas.
Or taxes.
3 fat_cox 2020-07-29
You had sex with a real anime girl?
3 theworstever 2020-07-29
They don't ejaculate milk from the nipples from orgasming. Anime lied to you.
7 bloupp 2020-07-29
Japan has a rule where if you gain citizenship to another country, you automatically give up your citizenship in Japan. According to her, she doesn't want to give up her Japanese citizenship because some of her family lives there and it would be like cutting ties to them.
5 CRYSTAL_HYPOTHESIS 2020-07-29
This is actually a very good rule and I wish other countries like the USA, UK and Israel adopted it
2 S-K_123 2020-07-29
Maybe I'm just a rtarted mutt but I think the US also prohibits dual citizenship
6 thatboyfromthehood 2020-07-29
Yep, but the US doesn't actively enforce the dual citizenship rules and does not require naturalized citizens to relinquish citizenship in their country of origin
3 CriticalAttempt2 2020-07-29
You idiots are admitting hong kongers now too aren't you? Like 3m or something?
7 Crook_and_Crank 2020-07-29
Hey, those Hong Kongers are hard workers -- we're getting them quick before the Chinese can.
3 CriticalAttempt2 2020-07-29
yeah shake up the darkie monopoly of low wage jobs
7 Lehk 2020-07-29
taking refugees from communism is honorable.
2 Stolbinksiy 2020-07-29
Hong Kongers are great, if the government insists on importing millions of foreigners we could do far worse.
3 CriticalAttempt2 2020-07-29
I agree, they're the jews of asia
2 Oh-Schmitt 2020-07-29
Japanese passports are accepted visa free in more countries than any other nations, not saying that why but I'm sure it didn't hurt to have
21 Drewbieee 2020-07-29
Imagine being a Japanese citizen and living in the UK and acting like the UK is xenophobic, and totally just skating past the fact that japan is one of the most xenophobic places on earth. I live in japan, they don’t give a fuck about anyone or anything that isn’t Japanese. Trying making a “muh diversity“ argument in japan, literally no one gives a fuck.
8 stop_this_shitpostin 2020-07-29
Took a Japan vacation once and took the slow train to a small town outside of Mt Fuji. Walked by an older gentleman who made a tut sound and spit on the ground as I walked by.
I'll never forget him, based Japanese grandpa
3 texanapocalypse33 2020-07-29
How's the pussy over there?
4 CUMNOR 2020-07-29
Sideways
2 Drewbieee 2020-07-29
Stole my joke, god damnit.
1 Drewbieee 2020-07-29
All over and free for harvest for gaijin. Sometimes attached to crazy bitches who just want to bang you cause you’re “exotic”
5 EarlCampbellsMeat 2020-07-29
Really getting their money's worth from the sponsorship just from the jjokbari tears. She has a point about the bands though.
3 ABaadPun 2020-07-29
Chavcels rejoice.
3 Duce_Guy 2020-07-29
Why would anyone complain about not being British
3 pravoslavic 2020-07-29
Lmao i got temp banned from r/popheads for saying that a japanese national with 0 British heritage isn’t british
3 donpendejo 2020-07-29
J-Pop was a mistake.
2 HannibalK 2020-07-29
She's a lock to win now.
-1 TayloTayloBookito 2020-07-29
I don’t give a fuck about any of this, but that album is my AotY so far.