Know what’s funny? The way politics is going, this could happen but with whoever becomes PM after Sunak because HOO BOY SHIT’S GETTING REALLY FUCKING WILD HERE.
Like the current PM made a transphobic Jibe to the Leader of the opposition WHILE THE MOTHER OF A MURDERED TRANSGENDER TEENAGER WAS IN THE FUCKING GALLERY and refused to apologize. Not to long ago we had a scheme to make kids sing this fucking bullshit in schools because people identify with their home nation more than the UK, not to mention all the absolute horseshit that regularly comes out of the UK.
The UK was never a nation state to begin with. it’s traditions are are shallow as bathwater, mainly based around the Empire, which people are quickly realising is a bad thing. It’s four, some would even say five nations poorly stapled together with little interplay between the cultures. Each nation sees itself as it’s own thing with it’s own politics, identity, culture, ideologies, and even languages.
The UK is about as much a nation state as Yugoslavia was.
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Hillarious! Just for a few seconds I wondered if this was real!
Stop it meme creators! You were my only reliable news source. Now you are ruining it with fake memes.
Governments use memes as a format to spawn propaganda. wouldnt rely on em too much in any case
is that a joke? cuz that sounds hella interesting… the weirder the conspiracies the tastier the popcorn!
I think it’s a joke on the Putin thing. Like OK, a historical border doesn’t justify a present day war. Even the leader of Mongolia was riffing on this. Should Mongolia reclaim all of it’s former land Asia?
Should Mongolia reclaim all of it’s former land Asia?
I mean, it would make cartographer a somewhat easier job… Do we really need to have all those -stans anyway? 😛
I kinda want to see what the fewest countries you could cover the whole world with is if you took everything at its historical peak territory. So like post-WW1 British empire, Mongol empire just before Chinggis died, Umayyad caliphate when it stretched from Iran to Spain, Roman Empire under Trajan etc etc. How many do we need to fill in the whole map? And what’s the smallest country that we need in order to do so?
If the TV Show The Crown is the slightest accurate, I could definitely imagine King Charles making this exact joke TBH.
