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   Alisdair Calder McGregor (a_c_mcgregor@topspicy.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 04:17:43 JST Alisdair Calder McGregor

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   • Charlie Stross

   @cstross A friend of mine who has visited the US extensively once told me that he believed the fundamental issue with the US is that it's a very very conformist society with a founding myth of rebellion, and the tension between the two is the core cultural disconnect.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 04:17:44 JST Charlie Stross

     US Politics in a nutshell:

     The US forked British Monarchy™ in 1776, but froze the dev branch with Constitution 1.0, so didn't bother to backport any of the subsequent bugfixes and security patches (1831, 1918, 1938, etc.) from the main British branch.

     Anyway, you've got a bunch of British Monarchy™ users who instinctively want to tug the forelock but don't have anyone to tug it *at* and it upsets them because homebrew is no good—it takes 700 years of inbreeding to roll your own nobility.