One thing I keep harping on as an American angry and ashamed of my country's legacy is that the British don't get to talk shit because the USA is one of the primary things they gave the world US and UK hegemony aren't separate things and never have beenhttps://twitter.com/cstross/status/1269993282039316481 …
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a hardcore British Americophile, has Holmes say he longs for the day "Our brother nations will quell the long-dead grudge stoked by one mad king" and "the world will be united under a quartering of the Union Jack and Stars and Stripes"
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I mean, he was basically right, but it's not a good thing, and it didn't turn out the way he probably hoped it would
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