They're gonna be disappointed when british police arrests them for wrongthink on twitter
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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Well... at least they aren't getting shot and killed by the police.
Where are all the racists who claim that they aren't racist for wanting to deport black and brown people? You know? All those reform voters who insist its not a race thing? Why arent they kicking off about all of the americans trying to come over?
You know the US is a real shthole when people decide to move to the UK, which also is a shthole lol
I left the US for the UK well before Trump 1 and am still here. I can confidently assure you that you have no idea what you're talking about.
While it's far from perfect (nowhere is), our quality of life here is far better, and interactions with the authorities and law enforcement are far less brutal than they were in the US. And people here are friendlier. But then, I'm not living in London, which is crawling with driven, greedy assholes.
The problem with getting your info from headlines is that you don't know which sources are serving an agenda rather than reporting actual news. One thing that is wrong with the UK is that its media is just as fucked as that in the US. With the exception of a few publications (the wishy-washy LibDem Guardian, the conservative contrarian Private Eye), it's all billionaire's bullshit. And 90% of podcasters are semiliterate knobheads who just make shit up.
Having said all that, it does rain a lot, and despite massive gains over the past few decades, the food still could do with further improvement. But when I return to the US for visits, even in progressive bubbles where my friends and family live, I'm always glad to come back here. Especially when the Greens just decisibely defeated Farage in a by-election and made Starmer look like the wanker that he is.
Why UK though? They want to be in the next populist shit hole?
I can tell you, Americans who immigrate to Canada bring the stupid with them. It's like, "nice country, glad I moved here, how can we fuck it up like the USA?"
They speak English in populist shit hole?
Luckily Americans don't speak any foreign languages so rest of Europe is safe.
The ones who can afford to move are the ones that statistically be more likely to speak more than one language. Learning German myself to add to my pile.
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Or gets the ones who do speak at least one foreign language, which aren't going to be the close-minded kind that thinks everything that matters starts and stops with America, so that's also good.
Not really. Thankfully it takes a bit of brains to make the move, so the world gets the USAs best.
This is actually pretty funny. "Who speaks my language and where can i go?"
This is 100% even though for all other languages the question would be “whose language do I speak…”!
The situation over there is as bad as here. Fascism isnt confined to the americas
Coming back home eh?
I'm not sure that would actually be a step in the right direction.
They've been showing their ass a lot lately.
Trust me the Americans leaving the country are not the Trumpers. Now is the time to steal the brain drain for yourself.
Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the original comment is talking about how the UK is pretty fascist and dystopian as well.
That was indeed my point.
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Probably not the people who are affected the most by their government.
Brexit is a deal breaker for me. Any thoughts I've ever had about moving to UK for any reason went out the window when Brexit happened.
Having lived in Britain during the time of the Referendum and seen all of that shitshow first hand, I would say that Brexit is the product of British Politics having been taken over by the local version of MAGA (so, less loud and obnoxious, more posh sleaze).
This was to the point that they even had a Trump lookalike called Boris Johnson.
Plus they're only half a step behind on the bigotry, surveillance, and fascism anyway.
While that's true, they at least don't have rampant gun violence or a government para-military gunning people down in the streets
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Why the fuck would anyone want to go to the UK? It is Trumpland, but with a accent.
It's somewhat telling that you comment implies that everyone else has an accent and you don't :)
We haven't gone anywhere near being Trump land yet. And the Trump party (Reform) just got wrecked in an election yesterday.
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Having lived there, I agree that Britain is the most Fascist nation in Europe after Belarous and Russia, though theirs is the Posh Aristocratic version, so it's not as loud and obvious as "strongman" Fascism.
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