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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Dec 2020

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      The US is worse by the numbers and yet the US is the UK's fault Like, what the US is is the UK's colonists sent to do their dirty work they couldn't stomach directly - genocide and slavery - while they still profited from it And in a sense that's more contemptible https://twitter.com/innesmck/status/1340591238001664000 …

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Dec 2020

      The American Revolution, in the end, was hardly an admirable cause - it ended up being the US's elites going "If we're gonna be doing all this slavery and genocide we're keeping the goddamn money" - and yet seen in this light how can you not feel great contempt for the UK

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Dec 2020

      Generations of wealthy Brits sitting in their green little island sipping their tea and making wry jokes about their charmingly antiquated folkways while the greatest human suffering ever imagined in history occurs over three centuries across five continents to pay for their shit

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Dec 2020

      Orwell diagnosed this, writing in the 40s, as a Brit who was very defensive of English culture in his way and yet tried to be realistically self deprecating about it, especially in comparison to America

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Dec 2020

      That as someone who'd been abroad as an agent of Empire in India he thought he recognized the ugliness in American culture, the crassness and viciousness that permeated US society and media from his POV, the casual, arrogant cruelty

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Dec 2020

          America was born in blood, raised in it, soaked in it, and Americans were never very far from the places that blood had been spilled and never went long without seeing the blood on their hands While Britain went to all this effort to hide the blood, flee from it, wall it away

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Dec 2020

          And for that Americans held an ancient hatred and contempt for their parent country, and you couldn't even blame them Like Orwell quitting his job as a cop in India full of self-loathing and self-pity and then came to despise the people back home even more

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Dec 2020

          "Anyone else can judge me but not you I did it FOR YOU, you stupid old man"

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Dec 2020

          Like fuck I'm so sick of Brits going off about how they have the NHS because they're a smarter, more rational and compassionate society than the US Americans are a subspecies of people who are just too stupid and greedy to see that it's the right thing to do Seriously fuck you

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        6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Dec 2020

          No, you know what the difference is? The UK passed socialized medicine because they felt they could pay for it from the profits of colonial exploitation abroad for a population of mostly white people in Britain The NHS was bought with the spoils of Empire

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        7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Dec 2020

          The US has very substantial ethnic minority populations consisting of the descendants of people who were enslaved and trafficked here and people from whom the land was seized Socialized medicine would be redistribution of wealth from colonizers to colonized So they said no

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        8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Dec 2020

          The thing they did instead of socialized or single-payer medicine, employer-provided group health insurance, they did specifically because that's LIKE socialized health care but something you can limit to a subset of the population

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        9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Dec 2020

          Everyone who, say, worked at Ford could be treated *as though* they lived in a social democracy with a welfare safety net, they could gatekeep Black people from working there and pretend they didn't exist, and in the prosperity of the 50s they thought that could last forever

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        10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Dec 2020

          It's race It's always race, which is to say it's always the legacy of colonization, genocide and slavery, which is something that Brits get to pretend doesn't affect them because they did it and turned around and walked away

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        11. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Dec 2020

          NHS would've been a much harder sell to the British voting populace if it applied to the whole population of India too, wouldn't it? Or the former possessions in the Caribbean? Or if the AmRev hadn't happened and you had to pay for healthcare for Black people in Alabama

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        12. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Dec 2020

          But no, they divested from Empire when it got too troublesome and expensive, kept the money, went into retirement and tried to pretend they've always been one of the nice countries Cracking their shitty jokes "Indigenous studies? Well here English history IS indigenous", har har

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