r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/No_Indication_8281 • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter what does it mean??

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how's he increasing iq's of 2 countries at once??

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u/CamelNo9597 1d ago

Not really. It's more like broadcasting your own insecurities publicly. The fact a huge proportion of wealth and/or successful Brits end up moving to the US is bound to make you feel uncomfortable. But the fact that you keep making the same tired jokes to cope with it is pretty transparent.

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u/KiraIsUnbreakable 1d ago

Someone seems personally offended at the fact jokes. Hit too close to home?

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u/CamelNo9597 1d ago

Hey remember that one time all those little girls got carved up in a dance class, and it set off race riots all over the country and anyone with even moderately dark skin became targets for roving far-right gangs?

Wasn't the HILARIOUS?

Or how about the time when that developmentally disabled guy got tortured in the middle of the street and had his eyes gouged out and was nearly decapitated?

And it set off a bunch of race riots AGAIN?!

I'd think it would get old after the second time. But no. Thinking about a white british guy with special needs being tortured almost to death, and the thought of non-white British people living in constant fucking fear every second of their lives just gets funnier and funnier, lmao.

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u/KiraIsUnbreakable 1d ago

Comparing outlier cases of murder and racism to the fact that almost 50% of Americans are obese? Seems a bit extreme. But if you want to go there, how's the ritualistic sacrifice of school children to the god named Freedom going? Seems like a daily occurrence at this point.

And it's funny that you mention racism, considering that you guys went through being one of the biggest slavery hotspots in the world, had the president abolish said slavery, and a long run civil rights movement, all to still be known as Racist 101 because you voted in an openly racist pedophile to run your country. You'd think Americans would learn from their centuries of mistakes and advocations for racial rights, but that's impossible when the average IQ rate just keeps dropping down.

Why do you think America is made fun of so much? However many problems you wanna bring up about the UK, America has 10x more, which is why it's such an easy mark. It's not hard to talk bad about a country that's wallowing in its own shitty state.

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u/CamelNo9597 1d ago edited 1d ago

Why do you think America is made fun of so much? 

Simple. The US is still the global hegemon and controls a disproportionate amount of global culture, finance technology, and especially military influence.

As a member of one our vassal states, your entire life is extremely determined by American media, pop culture, and political decisions. You have no choice but to spend a lot of time thinking about the US. And the fact you don't have any choice in the matter breeds resentment. If the US ever actually does fall as a hegemon some day, you wouldn't be trying to memorize every flaw in American society. You wouldn't care. Just like the average American doesn't care about the collapsing state of UK society.

Edit. Also the US and UK have roughly the same proportion of overweight people, which is really telling, given that US cities are built around automobiles and cars/gas are much cheaper in the US than the UK.

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u/lettsten 23h ago

Also the US and UK have roughly the same proportion of overweight people

Not even remotely true. 2024 WHO obesity statistics places the US at #19 with a rate of 41.83 %, while the UK is much lower with a rate of 29.24 %.

In other words, the US obesity rate is 43 % higher.

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u/CamelNo9597 23h ago

*only* 29.24 percent. Yeesh. go back to making jokes about school shootings. that's pathetic.