biden [he/him]

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Cake day: May 26th, 2021

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  • You can see this along countries and cultures too; westerners are usually way more stingy than people in the global south. Middle Easterners, North Africans, South Asians, Latin Americans, etc. will constantly try to do favors for family, friends, acquaintances. Muslims will randomly offer and insist on giving people free gifts or food. I’ve heard Swedish people tell guests to wait in the other room while their family eats dinner.




  • Large amount of frustration with Londoners being condescending to them while the parts of the country they live in suffer from underinvestment

    What does that have to do with the EU though? Hasn’t the UK become significantly poorer and had greater inequality since Brexit? I was seeing a lot of leftists saying Brexit would only make the UK more of a neoliberal hell and it certainly has

    Britain will never be respected in Europe because we aren’t on the continent and thus we’re better not being part of any pan european movement

    Idk Ireland’s pretty well respected in the EU and they have pretty overwhelming 90+% support for maintaining EU membership. But I guess it’s more British people (especially English) being seen as the Americans of Europe

    Also Poland wanted out of the EU too at the time

    Did they? I mean, far-right parties seemed to endorse it but only 22% of the population actually supported leave, higher than now but still a clear minority