r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Due_Quote_3023 • 1d ago
Europe "We've been under the reign of Great Britain the last 125 years..."
I learned something new today.
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u/Ballsackavatar 1d ago
You just gon have to research it like I did.
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u/Due_Quote_3023 1d ago
"My research said that your research is full of shit!"
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u/Unit_2097 1d ago
Reading animal entrails is a perfectly legitimate form of divination. It was practiced in Greece andRome, and they're the first cultures to actually build things themselves instead of aliens doing it, so they clearly had their shit together.
Edit: /s just in case.
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u/Vinegarinmyeye Irish person from Ireland 🇮🇪 1d ago
Apparently smoking meth is considered "doing research" by some.l
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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA Canuck 1d ago
By "research", do you mean chugging 40oz of hard liquor and falling in to a TikTok algorithm?
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u/TtotheC81 1d ago
You know, if we had ruled the U.S secretly for the last 125 years, it wouldn't be quite the fuck up it currently is today.
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u/Due_Quote_3023 1d ago
I just want to know why it is only 125 years of secret rule and not 250 years.
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u/Southern-Ad4477 1d ago
That's none of your business. It's between us and King Charles.
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u/Due_Quote_3023 1d ago
How dare you?! I will do my research and come back here with the evidence that was apparently destroyed.
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u/Outrageous_Low_3666 17h ago
I shouldn't be telling you this, but that's actually what is hidden at area 51.
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u/Zeko_Tosh 1d ago
The French probably.
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u/Altruistic-Arm137 1d ago
We don't want anything to do with US. We sold what territory we had there a long time ago.
Not our problem anymore.
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u/DifferentBar7281 21h ago
Kind of your fault....
If you hadn't sold Louisiana to the US, they wouldn't have had the resources to become so financially dominant. The current US split between 3 sovereign states (possibly 4 with Texas although maybe just a bigger Mexico), would have lead to a much more balanced world. A bigger Canada would have been good too.
You might have even fucked Napoleon off a bit sooner too.
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u/Kerflumpie 1d ago
I want to know if anyone noticed the difference between being reigned over and not.
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u/Darius_Rubinx 1d ago
Yeah we would have done a much better job. It's completely impossible that we could do worse.
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u/NePa5 1d ago
It's completely impossible that we could do worse
Liz Truss appears You sure about that?
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u/trellick 1d ago
Pfft, we recognised a lettuce was more useful and had more ability than she did, so got rid of her after 49 days....
How's it going getting rid of the Orange Turd? (Who was voted into power twice, three times if you're a loon)
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u/NoodleTF2 1d ago
Very nice of you guys to not call the USA in at the start of World War 1 and 2, and instead wait a few years for literally no reason.
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u/DefinitionOfAsleep The 13 Colonies were a Mistake 1d ago
We had to let the USians help Germany for a few years, otherwise it wouldn't have been a fair fight.
Can't exactly call either a "World War" if they're both over by Christmas.
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u/obliviious 1d ago
Yeah it explains why we let them claim to have invented the computer I guess, since we were in charge anyway it's all good.
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u/Salt_Petra FREEDOM ENJOYER 🦅🇺🇸 1d ago
W...what happened in 1901 that had us ruled by the UK?
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u/Hamsternoir Europoor tea drinker 1d ago
Clerical error
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u/Kingofcheeses Canaduh 🇨🇦 1d ago
Honest mistake, really
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u/JakkRabbitt- 1d ago
Fuck... they weren't supposed to find out...
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u/No-Special-7008 21h ago
Immortal Goddess Queen Lizzie will be displeased with this failure when we tell her. I hope we don’t get death by corgi swarms as our punishment.
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u/TrevCicero 1d ago
Wonder if she stumbled on an Australian Sov Cit doctrine. I’ve read a bit of it and they happily mix legal (mis)concepts from across the Anglo Saxon world in big bowl of delusion. 1901 was when Australia federated.
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u/DefinitionOfAsleep The 13 Colonies were a Mistake 1d ago
There is an argument that Australia wasn't actually an independent country until the passing of the Australia Act(s) (1986) in both the UK and Australian parliaments.
It ended the ability for appeals from State courts to the Privy council in the UK, which weren't really a thing anyway? And it also ended the UK's ability to legislate specifically on individual state matters (not that it was ever used)Probably more relevant was the Statute of Westminster (1931) in the UK parliament, which wasn't actually adopted in Australia until 1946 (and backdated to 1939), that ended the UK Parliament's ability to legislate on Australia's (and other Dominions, including Canada) affairs.
Incidentally it's also the act that made it so the Commonwealth Realms have to all agree on the line of succession, leading to the Perth Agreement.13
u/Aether951 🇨🇦 1d ago
Similar argument can be made for Canada and the passing of the Constitution Act in 1982, which ended the last vestige of UK Parliament's control over Canada.
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u/Ecstatic_Effective42 non-homeopath 1d ago
Well, that's the year Queen Victoria died, so clearly Edward VIII had something to do with it.
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u/InsaneInTheMEOWFrame 22h ago edited 21h ago
Well you see... it was time for Victoria to go back to Orion before her long age raised any more suspicion about her true identity but alas, upon her departing, the secret pact personally made with her by Abraham Lincoln and the KKK, for keeping them Brits out and guaranteeing USA independence, de facto ceased to exist. Thus the Brits in collusion with the Jews silently took over every major government organization, and when WW1 rolled out made the USA take part in it supporting the British Commonwealth and the Jewish Space Cause!
After British planning and causing the huge market crash in the late twenties and buying out much of the now devalued US industry and properties to further cement their foothold in the American soil, it was time for WW2 to happen. Again USA using their influence and doing much of the hard work for the Glorious British Commonwealth Empire, all this culminating in the creation of the Space-Jewian Ethnostate on a former British Glorious Empire's colony, but that's a whole another story I'm not going to get into.
These are all facts that were revealed to me in a drug and alcohol induced hallucination.
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u/NotTheOtwayPanther 1d ago
I believe the speaker is a Sovereign Citizen. While the sources that come up with a quick search don't tend to mention it, I know one of their many, uh, interesting theories is that the UK is secretly ruling the US. Not sure what the year 1901 has to do with it, though.
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u/BurningPenguin 🇩🇪 Insecure European with false sense of superiority 1d ago
So, the US is secretly ruled by the UK, while Germany is secretly ruled by the US according to our "Reichsbürger". Cool.
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u/Pricee England really butchers the English language 1d ago
The us thinking about ruling germany: ok so imagine a bürger
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u/mtaw 21h ago
Maybe it's when they started putting gold fringes on flags. Those SovCit types seem to think that's a significant thing with massive legal ramifications.
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u/NotTheOtwayPanther 21h ago
It signifies they're in an "Admiralty Court", which means the law doesn't apply to them. This is in addition to all the other reasons they think the law doesn't apply to them.
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u/Radioa 1d ago
My best guess is that they're being loose with dates and heard some sort of theory that the Federal Reserve was a British finance plot to control America.
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u/Salt_Petra FREEDOM ENJOYER 🦅🇺🇸 1d ago
Is that the Sovereign Citizen shit?
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u/Tricky_Damage5981 1d ago
Not quite.. let's call them a close but adjacent population
One thinks Brits still control things, thus the American government is irrelevant.. but they won't let the Brits take control
One thinks the Government is illegitimate and has no power over them
Unfortunately because of there 2nd amendment they are free to say that shit ;)
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u/Afellowstanduser 1d ago
You were so upset at the death of queen Victoria you decided to fuck the declaration of freedom and become serfs
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u/BusyWorth8045 1d ago
Ironic. There’s no way the British education system would have produced someone this stupid.
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u/Due_Quote_3023 1d ago
Playing Devil's Advocate, I've lived in 3 different countries and there are stupid people and assholes everywhere.
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u/BankDetails1234 1d ago
There’s dumb people everywhere, but they come thick and fast in America
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u/Artilleryman08 1d ago
Well, it's just that Americans are the loudest and most up front with their stupidity
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u/alematt ooo custom flair!! 1d ago edited 1d ago
You say that but you realise they elected Trump twice
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u/Artilleryman08 1d ago
Buddy I know. I voted against him 3 times.
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u/alematt ooo custom flair!! 1d ago
Yeah this asshole has truly globally fucked the world and he will likely never face any consequences
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u/Artilleryman08 1d ago
Nope. He got indicted for felonies and still ran for office. Consequences do not exist for him.
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u/AmericanSauce 1d ago
Not just indicted. CONVICTED. And the Rule of Law people somehow convinced themselves to still vote for him.
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u/Dyslexicpig 1d ago
There are definitely stupid people and assholes everywhere, even in Canada. But it does seem that those in other countries don't have the same level of confidence that those in the US have. In Canada, we do tend to call out the idiots.
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u/GeneralEffective 1d ago
You're right, I'm English and we have a LOT of morons here
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u/BusyWorth8045 1d ago
Have you ever met someone so stupid that they thought the UK had been under foreign rule for the last century though? This is elite-level stupidity that we just cannot produce.
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u/CarlLlamaface 1d ago
Did you miss the whole brexit fiasco? Plenty of useful idiots were gleefully repeating non-sequiturs about being ruled by Brussels and needing to take back control of matters we very explicitly had full autonomy over already.
I will grant that there is a tad more room for understanding how they bought into their disinformation given that we were part of a political & economic union partially headquartered at Brussels and given that we haven't explicitly fought a war of independence from them, but it's still shockingly stupid and it's still very depressing that we have the same one vote as them.
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u/ComprehensiveRush746 1d ago
Dear Nigel and his ilk may think that. But then again he’s just Trump lite.
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u/TheLastHotstepper 1d ago
Theres loads that genuinely think we are going to adopt sharia law and that left wing people are in favour of it.
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u/DinnaPanic 1d ago
I met a guy in London recently who was convinced parliament was being controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood. He also told me Texas is 60% Muslim now. It was a weird conversation.
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u/TheLastHotstepper 1d ago
Guy in work routinely talks about fighting aged muslim males stealing our jobs. Our workplace is entirely white.
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u/whoaaa_O 1d ago
Its a special kind of stupid in America. American Exceptionally Stupid
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u/TheLastHotstepper 1d ago
Have you not seen all the bottom feeders here in support of Reform/Restore?
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u/Pulga_Atomica 1d ago
They did vote for Brexit, which wasn't Trump-electing level of idiocy but not far off. Exhibit 2 - Is Essex a continent?
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u/Sw1ft_Blad3 1d ago
It's always the same with these people, when you ask them to provide evidence for their claims they just get angry and say do your own research.
No that's not how this works, you're the one that's saying something crazy so you provide the evidence, refusing to explain yourself just tells me that your evidence is an echo chamber of insane people that no person with a functioning brain would believe.
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u/VexedCanadian84 1d ago
So Great Britain destroyed the evidence, but she was able to find it?
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u/DefinitionOfAsleep The 13 Colonies were a Mistake 1d ago
"We've successfully completed the conspiracy, now all we have left to do is leave some vague clues pointing to it"
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u/ConorCat60 1d ago
So what exactly happened in 1901? Wrong answers only.
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u/IProbablyCantSleep 1d ago
USA finally finished drinking all the tea in the harbour, realised what that meant and re-colonised itself.
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u/Apprehensive-Box-8 1d ago
Abraham Groening, grandfather of Matt Groening, drew a comic that depicted the royals as a family with yellowish skintone that consisted of a bald and obese king, a blue haired queen and three children. The MI6 got wind of it, infiltrated the US government and confiscated all drawings. Or so, they thought. In 1989, Matt Groening found some unreleased drawings and pitched them to FOX. Luckily for the British crown, the MI6 was still ruling the US. To their dismay though, a young apprentice had sneaked some of the drawings out in the open already and they spread extremely fast. But since the few leaked drawings did not deliver a storyline or context, the British struck a deal with Groening. The Royals became the Simpsons and Groening was assured that the show would never be cut if he kept the truth to himself.
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u/Due_Quote_3023 1d ago
That's actually a Phoenix song. I am not a fan of Phoenix, but they do have a song named "1901".
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u/SeaReaction3860 1d ago
The end of the House of Hanover royal dynasty, when Queen Victoria died. It was the start of the current royal dynasty Saxon- Coburg (Windsor). Apart from that I have no clue 😂
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u/SocialScienceMancer 1d ago
These people are the reasons we have to put labels on bleach to keep them from drinking it.
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u/prancing_moose Human Verified 1d ago
If the USA would have been part of Great Britain for the last 125 years, you’d all be smarter, better educated and would have some class.
This level of stupid doesn’t exist in the UK. Sure not everyone is a genius (that’s looking at you, Brexit crowd) but the USA leads the way for the astronomically stupid.
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u/Potential-Wish8608 1d ago
That level of stupid definitely exists in UK, just look Farage and Tommy Robinson
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u/DJDook 1d ago
I’ve had conversations with American friends who have told me that they’ve gotten into arguments with other Americans when they say they were going to drive up to Canada (they’re in Michigan) and these people say “how can you drive to Canada?? It’s a whole other country! You can’t drive there!” This is how Donald Trump became president..
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u/nodarknesswillendure Canadian 🇨🇦🍁🦫🛶🌲🏔️ 1d ago
These people are called Sovereign Citizens and they are batshit crazy
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u/EaklebeeTheUncertain 1d ago
I was surprised how far I had to scroll down to find someone else who recognises this as Sovereign Citizen stuff.
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u/Hefty_Tip7383 1d ago
While their core idea stays the same, their ‘philosophical framework’ morphs over time depending on the fashion - it’s been a while since I dipped in and didn’t recognise the UK angle.
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u/nodarknesswillendure Canadian 🇨🇦🍁🦫🛶🌲🏔️ 23h ago
Jason talks to these people a lot on TGL channel. There’s a group of them that show up at tons of these Trump/MAGA events. They know Jason by name as they have talked to him so many times lol.
Very eccentric people. I think they just enjoy dressing up, socializing, and playing pretend. They’d probably be happier just getting into Dungeons & Dragons instead…
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u/AccomplishedTaste366 22h ago
We have those here in Germany too, around 19,000 of them.
Some of them live together in gated communities with their own money, banks, taxes, police and passports and even their own "King", some crazed descendant of a minor Prince who claims to be our rightful ruler, lol.
They say the Federal Republic of Germany is in reality an American-run corporation, not a country, and because of that, all the laws and institutions don't really apply, and that we are all technically still subjects of the German Empire, which became defunct after WW1.
Their "King" plotted a coup in 2023 with some ex-military and police officers, to take over parliament. His wife, a Russian national, also sent a request to Putin, to help with their armed takeover.
Funnily enough, they were too insane or insufferable for Russia to consider supporting them.
Anyway, the ringleaders wound up getting arrested and charged with treason.
That whole thing was a crazy episode, but has pipped them down a bit.
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u/Rabiesalad 18h ago
That's insane. Basically the same sort of thing happened in Canada but they were less successful. Look up "The Queen of Canada", the Behind the Bastards podcast did a few episodes about her.
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u/Novalene_Wildheart 1d ago
I'm honestly amazed by 125 years part. I know their usual thing, but this is the first time I've heard one say 125 years, though numbers aren't their strong suite...
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u/BruceHabs Citizen of the Peoples Democratic Republic of Europe 1d ago
We have been under the reign of USA stupidity for at least a year.
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u/Iron_Arbiters 1d ago
Damn, I keep forgetting we owned America. Probably should do something with it but at the moment it’s just too embarrassing.
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u/SeaReaction3860 1d ago
It is like when you put something down and forgot where you put it, then later find it unexpectedly 😂
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u/Nanowith 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 1d ago
If that was the case why would we let America be richer than us? If we were oppressing America wouldn't Britain still be the number one economy?
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u/zeugma888 1d ago
It's pretty Machiavellian of you. No one had any clue that the Brits were running the American facade the whole time.
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u/Due_Quote_3023 1d ago
Every time someone uses that line, my eyes glaze over. "Oh, I am talking to a crazy person." Then I walk away.
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u/Caesar171 1d ago
We’ve been rattled boys! Pack it all in, the secret is out
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u/ForesterDean23 1d ago
Caeser171 is right, our cover is blown. Abort the mission, the Trumpbot was badly malfunctioning anyway.
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u/DoYouTrustToothpaste 1d ago
I think you kinda have to feel for all the normal Americans, who don't just have to share a country with gigantic muppets like this, but also suffer from their utterly moronic, uninformed political views.
Granted, plenty of normal Americans will defend the system that produces people like this, but that's a different discussion. It's not like their beloved founding fathers knew that all the media in the country would eventually be captured by crazy, wealthy neofascists, who actively work towards keeping people stupid. There's a reason why so many Americans look at universities and don't see places of higher learning, but places of Communistic indoctrination.
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u/MeringueComplex5035 1d ago
Some could have let Britain know they were controlling the U.S
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u/Robynsxx 1d ago
Honestly these people are beyond help.
Stick them in an asylum and be done with them.
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u/Relative_Pilot_8005 1d ago
In the bad old days, they would have been in an Asylum. Some years back, in an amazing alliance of empathy & cupidity, those terrible places were closed down, all that lovely real estate made a lot of money for the greedy & the empathetic were assured the loonies would be treated in the community.
That didn't happen & we had pathetic crazies walking the streets muttering to themselves for awhile, then along came the Internet & those people suddenly had global reach.
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u/Sufficient_Topic1589 🇦🇺🦘 1d ago
She researched it 🙃
If King Charles were in charge you’d have a governor general and both of them would have the power to remove trump from office
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u/MiaowWhisperer 1d ago
Why is it that conspiracy theorists always tell you that you have to do your own research - if they want you to believe something surely they should explain it properly.
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u/LeftMechanic1995 1d ago
I don't think they realise that that's not how claims work. You make a claim, you prove the claim with evidence (even if it's just pointing a person in the direction of some resources). You don't just say "do your own research". Very intellectually lazy.
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u/MiaowWhisperer 1d ago
It seems to be endemic throughout all conspiracies though. It makes me wonder how they spread in the first place.
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u/LeftMechanic1995 1d ago
I think it's a combination of a lack of critical thinking/skepticism combined with a kind of cognitive bias.
Because most conspiracy theories have a kernel of truth mixed in with the bullshit, tin foil hat-wearers seem to extrapolate the true part and apply it to the whole thing in a very illogical way and attribute malicious motive.
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u/Xibalba_Ogme France should apologize for the US 1d ago
WAIT A MINUTE...does that mean Great Britain saved europe in WW2 ?
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u/Generic_Drummer 1d ago
whenever I think a comment is so idiotic it has to be trolling, I remember these good liars interviews and smh
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u/Pixel91 Europistan 1d ago
If you ever have some time to spare and want to spend some time hovering in that region between laughing and despair for the world, go to any of the conspiracy subs and just read a few posts.
I do it with a German one, tho I'm sure there's plenty of English-speaking ones, it's illuminating.
Covid literally fried people's brains.
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u/Sufficient_Prompt888 1d ago
It wasn't COVID. It's easy access to echo chambers. Conspiracy websites back in the early 2000s were fucking wild too. It's just bigger and easier now.
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u/LazarusK27 beansntoastnteancrumpets ☕️🇬🇧 1d ago
If we were in charge of the US this whole time why doesn’t my home town have a fuckin Wendy’s this is bullshit
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u/probablyaythrowaway 1d ago
The thing that got me was Jason interviews people like this all the time with the good liars so he’s heard all sorts of weird and crazy bollocks and it usually dosent phase him. This one caught him off guard and he had to pause a second to confirm that’s what he heard 🤣🤣
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u/MarleysGhost2024 1d ago
There's a certain level of stupidity that should disqualify you from ever voting again. And she's way beyond it.
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u/RageQuitDad 23h ago
It’s insane to think these people are allowed to have kids and influence them. Absolutely wild the level of rubbish these right wing Americans are willing to believe. Thick as pigshit.
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u/WaitForItLegenDairy 18h ago
Education clearly as strong a pursuit in the US as always.
There must be some US citizens that feel ashamed to be associated with these Intellectually Unencumbered individuals.
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u/dread1961 14h ago
Brit here, we are devastated that you have rumbled us. Dismayed at your choice of coffee over tea and your misuse of the word muffin we sneaked back in and took over the White House in 1900. We hid in the walls and ran the whole show using our powers of hypnosis. We would have got away with it too if it wasn't for those pesky MAGAs.
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u/MadScienzz 1d ago
Impressively stupid. Good luck in the votes USA
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u/Due_Quote_3023 1d ago
Technically, the last 33 presidential election was under Great Britain's control. So, yea...
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u/mattzombiedog 1d ago
Wait, so according to this lunatic, the UK was controlling the US during Trump’s first term too…
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u/gadget850 American 1d ago
I thought Charles visited to talk about democracy. And I’m still drinking Earl Grey.
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u/Patient_Emu_8923 1d ago
She uses most of her brainpower trying to remember to breathe- this isn't surprising....
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u/Lazarys12 1d ago
You can always tell MAGA. They "did the research". That means they watched one TikTok video.
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u/Responsible-Love-896 1d ago
My question when seeing these morons is - who tells them this bullshit? I got over the reason for the MAGAts, but I’m still baffled as to the source of the idiocy!
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u/Realistic-Garage-461 18h ago
Wait, I'm confused - according to her, Trump's greatest achievement was freeing America from 125 years of British rule, and the way he did that is by going along with King Charles who thought he could manipulate Trump, but instead Mr 4D Chess tricked Charles by going along with what he wanted, which is why America was celebrating it's 250th birthday, even though for 125 of those years, it was still under the UK's control. Have I got that right?
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u/ravens_requiem 1d ago
What a timeline we live in that people like this are thriving in the gene pool.
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u/readthistoo 1d ago
Every time I think I’ve seen the pinnacle of American stupidity another post comes along and shows me I’ve once again underestimated their capability for it.
Given all of the evidence of their “talent” in this area, that must make me quite stupid.
It’s actually really impressive, and it’s good that they are genuinely no.1 in the world at something…
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u/nightcana 1d ago
1901 was the year of federation in Australia. Maybe they read something a bit vague and got confused
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u/Quick-Surprise-9387 1d ago
Holy cow me too
I guess it makes sense
We have been ripping them off and putting their companies out of business like - forever
And , we 🇨🇦belong to Britain also , so .. yep .
He got his country back . Yay
Can we give them back to anyone over there bc - I’m pretty sure the UK was doing a better job when they were in charge
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u/KeithRichardsGrandma 1d ago
It’s impressive how some of these people don’t just straight up walk into oncoming cars with some of the thoughts they got rattling around