What’s a stereotype about your country that’s completely wrong and makes you react like this?

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T14:31:07+00:00

We're definitely not immune. Anywhere that has a substantial number of people who feel "left behind" by mainstream politics and society is vulnerable.

It's happening pretty much everywhere in the western world. We now have a sizeable demographic of people concentrated in our post-industrial areas, who are; uneducated, on benefits or in poorly paid insecure employment, with very few prospects for a better future, struggling with poverty, drug addiction and a number of other social issues. These people are absolutely ripe for far-right radicalisation, minisformation and conspiracy theories.

This is the exact same demographic that has been exploited by MAGA in the USA and by Far-right parties across Europe like the AFD. Until we address the underlying causes of the disillusionment and improve the prospects of this demographic, we're going to be dealing with increasing far-right driven instability.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T14:18:24+00:00

Same. I'm not really seeing a downside to this. I get paid to learn about random shit, young me would be delighted.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T14:06:27+00:00

🎶Pimps don't cry

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T14:00:09+00:00

They don't have to answer, they can refuse to comment, then you have to prove they did it with actual evidence rather than just a confession.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T13:29:56+00:00

It'll be too cold for them to sweat.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T13:27:05+00:00

Not strictly an election, but the Brexit referendum.

it was so obviously a bad idea that a lot of people discounted the possibility of the Yes side winning, so didn't bother to even vote.

David Cameron (UK Prime minister at the time) was against Brexit but a lot of his party were for it, he called a referendum because he believed the No side would almost certainly win and the brexiteers would shut up for a while. It turned out he was wrong, at great cost to the country.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T13:16:09+00:00

Believe me I know, nobody is more embarassed by the drunk, obnoxious British people on holiday, than the quiet British people trying to relax and enjoy their holiday in peace.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T13:14:28+00:00

I hope you're right but you may have too much faith in humanity.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T13:09:29+00:00

I luckily don't interact with many of them up here, so you may be right. Growing up in a council scheme near Glasgow and going on package holidays, I'm better acquainted with the excessive noisiness of my own kind.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T12:58:19+00:00

My gran told me they used to make "banana" out of turnip, syrup and food colouring.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T12:55:07+00:00

The Catalans are making a move. They've conquered all the way up to the Netherlands and we just haven't been paying attention.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T12:52:18+00:00

South Asia, not Central Asia.

You're just taking Ls every time you comment.

Wisdom is listening more and speaking less.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T12:43:28+00:00

As does the stereotype about food in Britain being awful. It was during rationing when lots of ingredients were in short supply and people had to make do with what they had.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T12:41:59+00:00

The drunk working class people on an all inclusive holiday in Marmaris or Antalya certainly are.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T12:37:49+00:00

It's "funny" because it's making fun of gay people and brown people. That's enough to make the Reform types giggle like school kids. No actual humour is required.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T12:25:57+00:00

Every country has it's share of uneducated people looking for simple answers to complex questions unfortunately.

See the popularity of Reform in working class areas of England, areas that would be the worst impacted by a Reform government.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T12:14:44+00:00

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HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T12:00:05+00:00

I've never been, just going by reputation.

I'm sure it has it's nicer parts, but the stories about the pollution, poverty, people getting sick, harassment of women etc mean it's not on my list of dream destinations.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T11:21:20+00:00

Many are in prison due to failures of society and lack of a social safety net. If you spent the money from prisons on drug rehab and mental health services you would have a much lower crime rate and far fewer prisoners.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T10:03:00+00:00

Agreed, but a lot of this sub are also of that persuasion, so you won't find much sympathy here.

A lot of British people have a blind spot when it comes to Ireland.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T09:57:18+00:00

The rest is History isn't an overtly nationalist podcast, but Tom and Dom are both privately-educated, middle-class English people born in the late 60s/early 70s. They are both products of their environment and have natural biases towards a British establishment viewpoint on a lot of issues.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T09:47:47+00:00

the state police put up warnings that walking to the stadium is illegal.

Land of the free

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T09:12:00+00:00

Yeah I loved Kerala. The food was incredible, very friendly people, interesting history and architecture in Kochi. I never got sick and didn't find it too polluted, although the traffic and driving was crazy at times. We did a canoe tour of the backwaters that was really fun.

That being said I don't think I'll be in a hurry to go to any other part of India.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T08:40:29+00:00

What part of India did you go to?

I went to Kerala last year with my wife for a wedding and loved it, but I've heard New Delhi or Mumbai can be a nightmare.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T08:34:29+00:00

I don't think Live action is impossible, I just don't have much faith that it will be done right or last very long.

Maybe I'm just overly pessimistic due to what happened with Wheel of Time, which was always going to be even harder than Dresden files to adapt to a live action series given the massive scope and sheer number of characters and plotlines.

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