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Some 8,790 Americans sought citizenship in the UK, either through registration or naturalisation in 2025, according to Home Office data published Thursday.

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[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago (1 children)

Why UK though? They want to be in the next populist shit hole?

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 1 points 17 minutes ago

They speak English in populist shit hole?

[–] Martinus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Probably not the people who are affected the most by their government.

[–] bridgeburner@lemmy.world 19 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You know the US is a real shthole when people decide to move to the UK, which also is a shthole lol

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 26 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Luckily Americans don't speak any foreign languages so rest of Europe is safe.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

Yes learn the language, come here and then watch it turn into a populist shit hole too. It's T minus two years...

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 2 hours ago (3 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] Itwasntme223@discuss.online 1 points 30 minutes ago

Please tell me this was a Wolfenstein 3D reference. lol

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Guten morgen.

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Einen großen schwarzen Kaffee, bitte.

It's the only sentence I know and, honestly, it seems to work well in most situations.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

Do you always end up with filter coffee when saying this?

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Shouldn't that be 'Kaffees'? or "Eine grosse schwarze Kafee"?

[–] spizzat2@lemmy.zip 3 points 39 minutes ago

My German is getting quite rusty, but I think I remember enough of the grammar...

The noun "Kaffee" is masculine, so normally, the nominative form would be "der Kaffee" or "ein Kaffee". However, in OP's sentence, it would be a direct object, making it use the accusative form of "den/einen Kaffee". Then, the adjective will take the same ending as the article here (though the rules are weird and complex, so that's not always the case).

Thus, "Einen grossen, schwarzen Kaffee" should be correct.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 hours ago

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.

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[–] LoremIpsumGenerator@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago

Coming back home eh?

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure that would actually be a step in the right direction.

They've been showing their ass a lot lately.

[–] quips@slrpnk.net 21 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Trust me the Americans leaving the country are not the Trumpers. Now is the time to steal the brain drain for yourself.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the original comment is talking about how the UK is pretty fascist and dystopian as well.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 points 33 minutes ago

That was indeed my point.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If you really have a reason to find out, it'd be worth coming here and seeing for yourself. And make sure to see more than London. There's a lot more to the UK than the metropolis.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I think the laws the government are passing around online Id requirements and trying to force companies to break encryption so they can have pervasive surveillance powers are very dystopian and the main thing I'm talking about. I'm sure the people and cities are very nice though, I've never been

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

What about an exchange program? Maybe right wingers fear for their lives in the U.K.

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