the weirdest part of the UK is that it’s seemingly the most dysfunctional country currently. Like, they had some of the biggest tech and industrial headstarts you can imagine, and somehow they managed to learn fuck all. The second their empire stopped sending them tribute, their country began a slow collapse, which we’re now seeing accelerate. I genuinely struggle to think of a worse example of how to run a country, and it’s seemingly done for no reason. The people who are destroying the country aren’t even making out like bandits, like we saw in Russia after the murder of the Soviet Union, but is done entirely for ideological reasons. And when the ideology runs into the simple material fact that their thinking is plainly wrong, they just double down and do more of the same. It’s maddening!
because we’re run by the boys from st noncingtons school for boys and men which costs 2 billion pounds a semester which for some reason isn’t friendly to those without
yeah but that’s my point. You can show the St. Noncingtons School for Boys and Men the numbers that prove that their way of doing things is obviously not working. But even when shown the data, they just double and triple down to a degree that I struggle to fathom. And I hope that you guys figure out a way to make your leaders understand it soon, since it seems my prime minister is hellbent on following in your footsteps (I believe my country is currently where you guys were in 2014, so things aren’t looking good).
That’s not what “imperialism” in the context of “imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism” means. Britain is still doing imperialism/in the imperialist stage of capitalism, it just doesn’t have an “empire” in the same sense as the Romans had an empire.
the weirdest part of the UK is that it’s seemingly the most dysfunctional country currently. Like, they had some of the biggest tech and industrial headstarts you can imagine, and somehow they managed to learn fuck all. The second their empire stopped sending them tribute, their country began a slow collapse, which we’re now seeing accelerate. I genuinely struggle to think of a worse example of how to run a country, and it’s seemingly done for no reason. The people who are destroying the country aren’t even making out like bandits, like we saw in Russia after the murder of the Soviet Union, but is done entirely for ideological reasons. And when the ideology runs into the simple material fact that their thinking is plainly wrong, they just double down and do more of the same. It’s maddening!
because we’re run by the boys from st noncingtons school for boys and men which costs 2 billion pounds a semester which for some reason isn’t friendly to those without
yeah but that’s my point. You can show the St. Noncingtons School for Boys and Men the numbers that prove that their way of doing things is obviously not working. But even when shown the data, they just double and triple down to a degree that I struggle to fathom. And I hope that you guys figure out a way to make your leaders understand it soon, since it seems my prime minister is hellbent on following in your footsteps (I believe my country is currently where you guys were in 2014, so things aren’t looking good).
because it works for them
If imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism, it stands to reason that if you take away the imperialism it’s no bueno
That’s not what “imperialism” in the context of “imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism” means. Britain is still doing imperialism/in the imperialist stage of capitalism, it just doesn’t have an “empire” in the same sense as the Romans had an empire.
I was being glib
Why would they learn anything when they had headstarts? Learning is for backward countries, who have a choice to learn or perish.
I would argue that Spain was even worse post-empire but it doubt the UK has hit rock bottom yet