What games have you been streaming?

Well, it is a name invented by Shakespeare so it has excellent dramatic flair.

Absolutely. I think people also get away with it because they can tell themselves that “smart” is a positive portrayal. Same thing that happens in stereotypes of Jews.

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It isn’t. I guess I’m just… surprised sometimes at the difference between how the people in the other democratic contexts I’m most familiar with—American, French, Israeli—are all seemingly far more likely to be politically engaged than the British people I know.

Sorry, Britain, not the UK, especially since 1066 was long before the union of those crowns and the Glorious Revolution was when England, Scotland, and Ireland were still legally separate kingdoms, even if de facto not.

I think you’re right. I think there’s a prevailing narrative of the UK as unconquerable (since 1066 and please ignore William III occupying London with Dutch troops) and, because of this, incapable of being oppressed. There’s no founding revolution like in many countries.

In a lot of World War II-period media, the Japanese have an infiltrator role (often with comparisons to rats) that plays to anti-immigration sentiment at the time and of course manifested in Japanese-American interment. I think that engine of history is still running under the hood sometimes.

I promise I won’t tell anyone if you decide to salt your saltines.

Homie, I dunno how else to say this except that you have the coziest eye contact.

It’s kinda sad to see.

I know a lot of British people just on account of teaching English in Europe. They’re most of the people at the office for that. And I feel like the baseline political consciousness is just so low. I feel like I follow their politics better than most of them.

There’s barely household-name figures that fought for rights in Britain to the same extent an American can at least name-drop Martin Luther King, Jr. Maybe Florence Nightingale as a go-to suffragette but she’s not nearly as big and really primarily known for other things.

I wonder if English history leads to rights being taken for granted. Aside from the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution, England (sorry, we know which is normative country for setting discourse standards in the UK) has never really had a recent rebellion that overturned the government.

Incredible cozy vibes there!

Nah. You leave funny comments.

Tantalus in Tartarus over there sounds like.

Yeah, I think also a lot of that is taboos that were unbroken. Like Trump was the first ever to try to meaningfully disrupt the transfer of power and he has been far more open with things you’re not supposed to say. All the people in the office played within certain confines that are disrupted.