\nI mean, the British did spend three centuries trying to genocide my ancestors and all, but they didn’t succeed and seem to have stopped trying. And it sure is convenient that we all speak their language now.
And you can hate on America all you want for literally anything else, but postwar Britain becoming a vassal state to the former British colony my great-*grandparents fled to will never not be funny to me. Hard not to read the American reception of the British monarchy as essentially “Oh, how quaint, those posh little vassals of ours have still got themselves a king, that’s adorable.” I still think they should kill him though.
I do like how America’s all gruff like “hon hon hon, our founding involved freeing ourselves from a king, so anti-monarchism is a key part of our national traditions”, and then look at the UK and be like “but not this one, this one’s quaint and charming” when like, that one was the one!
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