To my American Friends, Happy Independence Day from the country who really won the war!

[Soph0571]

Hope you have a safe and glorious time; however, as you celebrate your Independence Day, I have to insist we Brits really won the war. You see, looking back, all our religious right wing nuts headed over to the Americas for the freedom to establish a puritan land post Cromwell, where they could burn witches, condemn any free thought and lead a land based on the bible. Granted the founders were truly clear that there should be separation of church and state, but that did nothing to stop those religious loons being the arseholes they were and are. And so we really won the war, as all those nuts that could have infected British society with their loonery ended up in America instead, and the result is these religious right wing nuts holding a gun in one hand with the bible in the other, crying about having to wear masks and discriminating against pretty much everyone cause Jesus and Trump. We have our problems, but thankfully that is not one of them. Thanks America, you may have won the actual war, but thanks to the American religious right and their stooge in the White house, we won the culture war! Hehehe.

Truly though, have a great holiday

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. For this reason alone the human race owes thanks to UK

Greatest performance by the greatest rock band of all time and the greatest front-man and songwriter and singer of all time.

[Soph0571]

5. Truly stunning

My best mate at Uni's mother was his manager before he died. So many funny stories.

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. OH man you have to DISH then STORIES !!!!

Do you have any?

I saw them live, Winterland, Bohemian Rhapsody tour

[Soph0571]

10. OK but not too much

Her Mum had just got him as a client and Freddie came out of the closet toilet in their house. My friend pointed at him and said oh look mummy Freddie just came out of the closet. Mummy was not pleased!!! LOL. Of course there are better ones but not going to spill. Not my place. Told in confidence and after Freddie had died

[Eliot Rosewater]

15. Cool, i was thinking more about the band, how they worked, what they did

as their routines.

I guess when I said "dish" it implied gossip but as a fan and musician myself, they fascinate me

Adam Lambert is GREAT with them now, would love to see them again.

[irisblue]

2. Soph, may we,well the normal we, come back ?

[Soph0571]

4. Apparently there is a group in America that lobbies for America joining the Commonwealth

I think that time is past, but you never know, if Trump takes it to the end degree, anything may be possible!!!

[CanonRay]

9. Ih he wins again in November

you may get some of us back...

[Soph0571]

11. Hey Ray!!!

Hope you and the missus are still keeping safe. Give her my love

[CanonRay]

28. Same back to you two...so far so good!

[LunaSea]

3. Dear wingnuts...

Jesus is on the on one of the moons of Uranus.
And wants you all to visit him right away.
I swear.

[Skittles]

6. omg that GIF!

[Soph0571]

12. I thought it fitting

[Skittles]

18. I would have sent that to my British mum if she was still here

she LOVED that kind of decadent humor, LOL

[Dagstead Bumwood]

17. Let's pray he doesn't gain

his independence from that Speedo.

[Skittles]

19. HAHAHAHA

[MustLoveBeagles]

30. nt

[MustLoveBeagles]

33. I'm dying

[CanonRay]

8. Long live the Queen!

[Chainfire]

13. Thanks I think......

Do us a favor, take Trump for the next few months. Maybe we could take Brexit during that time. It would be good for you guys because you could see, and appreciate, what you have been missing, and good for us so that we could catch our breaths for a moment.

[Skittles]

21. to be fair

it's not like the Brits don't have their hands full with Boris

[ornotna]

14. Thanks,

Yeah baby! You did win the culture war.

[Skittles]

20. OMG STOP IT ORNOTNA

YER KILLING ME

[Soph0571]

23. Cultural hero!

[denem]

16. WWI, WWII, oh wait.

[Soph0571]

22. Yeah thanks for that

I mean you all made us give up the Empire to join defeating fascism. Cause just defeating fascism was not enough. Again we win the culture war. Just sayin'

[denem]

26. Little Richard and Chuck Berry won the culture war :)

It was Clement Attlee's government, after the war had ended, that gave up the empire. The decision to set free India, the jewel in the crown, was Britain's and Britain's alone. In contrast, France chose to cling onto Algeria and Vietnam.

[Steelrolled]

24. Great to hear!

In America we would call this a "win-win" outcome.

[Crunchy Frog]

25. We are the wretched refuse.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

27. Now we fight a different war: Which one can out right wing the other.

Y'all had Thatcher, Cameron, Osborne, Michael Gove and Boris Johnson (featuring Dominic Cummings)...to name a few.

We've had Nixon & Agnew, Reagan, 2X Bushes, Cheney, and now the Orange Shitgibbon (featuring Stephen Miller).....to name a few.

At this time, I think it's a draw.......

KY.........

[abqtommy]

29. The U.S. may have inherited the dregs of European society but no witches were burned here.

See link: https://www.history.com/news/were-witches-burned-at-the-stake-during-the-salem-witch-trials

Also Robert Heinlein covers that topic in his book Job: A Comedy Of Justice.

see link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job:_A_Comedy_of_Justice

Soph, what are we gonna do with you...

[NBachers]

31. I occasionally wonder, if we hadn't declared and won our independence, if we may not be Canada today

[First Speaker]

32. It's interesting to consider what would have happened had England won the war...

...in England itself, the Crown almost certainly would have retained more power over the next 200 years than it did in our reality. Nothing like the pre-1688 monarchy; but it would have functioned as the "executive", in a very real sense, longer than it did in the "real" world. Class differences would probably been stronger even than they were. Despite this, Britain would have moved towards democracy--but almost certainly slower than it actually did. In America, we, too, would have been more of a class-conscious society, more like Canada, with Sirs and Lords and Ladies. But also without phenomena like the Ku Klux Klan and Prohibition and the Mafia--such things simply wouldn't have been tolerated. It is likely, too, that slavery would have *probably* died out without the blood sacrifice we paid. As for the Anglo-American codominion that would have resulted...who knows. A British victory might have triggered the French Revolution even sooner, had the French devoted the resources they did to defeating the British they did in our world. But since the Brits beat Napoleon via a coalition, even with America as Bonaparte's de facto allies, it seems hard to believe it would have been *harder* with America as their allies. In such a world, with either a joint Parliament, or perhaps one in London and one in Philadelphia, America would have become an equal partner to the Mother Country quicker than it did in our world. It's even possible that a Pax Anglo-America would have risen, stronger and more enduring than the British Empire was "here". In the best-case scenario, we'd be living today in that Imperium, under a more strait-laced democracy still possessing "Victorian" values. Though of course, they'd have problems and tensions of their own...

[roamer65]

34. What we are witnessing is the death of the Anglo-American empire.

It’s in convulsions now.

[bdamomma]

35. that's

what Vlad wanted, unless we change his plan around.

[roamer65]

36. I think Putin and Xi are only accelerating the inevitable.

This was kicked into gear mainly under Ronnie Raygun and his “service economy” bullshit.

[bdamomma]

37. check this article out

about Vlad now he's putting his two cents in.

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/europe/europe-top-stories/putin-mocks-us-embassy-for-flying-rainbow-flag/ar-BB16k124?li=BBKxOg5&ocid=mailsignout

[roamer65]

40. I am an old Henry "Scoop" Jackson type anti-Russian.

I would not cry at all if Putin met his end.

[Aristus]

38. We got your religious fanatics. Australia got your common criminals.

I think Australia got the better of the bargain...

[EX500rider]

39. lol

[Polybius]

41. ...