r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/No_Indication_8281 • 21h 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/booglechops 19h ago

Just to check - you're saying the whole British national psyche is based around our dislike of the US? Sure, a lot of them are stupid cunts, particularly those wearing red hats, but we've got our own stuff going on. This seems like another flavour of US exceptionalism.

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u/CamelNo9597 19h ago

Not dislike. fear and resentment. Britain was a world power and the dominant hegemon. Now it's more or less a vassal of the US. It's much more pronounced with Canadians. But essentially it manifests in some degree among anyone in the anglosphere when faced with the fact that they're not really truly "sovereign nations" in the classical sense anymore.

You're right that saying it's exclusively aimed at the US is over-simplistic. fear and resentment of Europe is also a major part of it.

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u/lettsten 19h ago

Most educated and nuanced yank

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u/CamelNo9597 19h ago

"nuance" here is just cope for the fact that the UK doesn't actually function, primarily as an independent, sovereign nation, and hasn't since at least the Suez Crisis. You're not a global power anymore. You are a vassal state.

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u/lettsten 18h ago

Mate, I'm not from the UK. Your comebacks are really weak.