Darwin was an Englishman so I feel like every year the whole UK gets an honorary Darwin Awardhttps://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1325902896597241861 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
My most unexpectedly-uncontroversial opinion is that, for all of America’s faults, we are still distinctively better than England, and it + Australia are the only countries who are never allowed to make fun of us
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I would not go so far as to say we are *better* than England, but since America is just England 2.0 there is nothing bad about America that isn't in some way England's fault if you just go back a bit
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The book Albion's Seed was about this thesis Arguing that all of America's distinctly dysfunctional flavors of white people are just descendants of subcultures they had in England, that became the exaggerated worst versions of themselves when they all got their own states
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Like we all know Massachusetts got started because England's fundie wackjobs left to found their own colony where they could do as much Jesus shit as they wanted but the argument is they were all like that in some way
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The Deep South is where English aristocrats went to aristocrat as hard as they could, upgrading to having completely isolated estates where they literally owned everyone who worked for them
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The Mid-Atlantic states is where the new breed of merchant princes went to practice unrestrained capitalism, where first they built New York and then they built Wall Street
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Etc, etc America is where English culture flanderized itself, so to speak
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