This has become particularly evident with Argentina discourse but I feel like a lot of Latin Americans in general struggle to handle the contradiction of being continuously oppressed by colonizing powers while also being descended from colonizers
@PeersJulie45689@ScouseJayne@PunishedRWR Doesn't negate what I'm saying -- "it can be done" + an example of someone who's done it, doesn't mean it's not much harder than it used to be.
For all we know, he could've had help from others. Often the case for young buyers.
It's blatantly clear it's harder now. See BBC News
@ScouseJayne@PeersJulie45689@PunishedRWR There's infinitely many graphs like that out there, it's such a widely established fact. If you don't believe me, go and construct it directly from ONS data. But it's not worth my time
@WharfyWife@PeersJulie45689@PunishedRWR It's understandably very frustrating to have people saying "we did it, you just aren't trying hard enough" when the circumstances are just not the same. & then you get told they are
It's surely not hard to say "yea, we had our struggles, but I appreciate it's even harder now"
@WharfyWife@PeersJulie45689@PunishedRWR I am making more than my parents did but I'm still worse off than they were, in the sense that, a few years of saving up and being sensible was enough to buy a house back then. If I do the same, even on more money, it would take much much longer to have even a sniff of a flat
@ScouseJayne@PeersJulie45689@PunishedRWR Other cities with good jobs (Manchester Newcastle Liverpool Birmingham Leeds Edinburgh etc) also aren't cheap
Again, house prices have risen so so so much more than salaries, and people don't want to accept that reality even when shown with the evidence
@ScouseJayne@PeersJulie45689@PunishedRWR Looks like it's probably median, but it applies to the mean too. (Obviously it's not the mode?!)
Interest rate point is wildly overstated + plenty of other things against us, e.g. paying for uni
And again, if you want to be aspirational, most highest-paying jobs are in London +
@slphrrr@Schilted@besslilburne@hodge_stick I definitely see that point but when we say the same about the quality of British meat and vegetables people say it's complete bollocks
@hvsperus I would be very surprised if it isn't the same elsewhere too. There's nothing about it that's inherently British.
In relative terms we're one of the less misogynistic countries and it still happens here, I imagine it happens most places
Maybe less so in places with less drinking?
@barquilloillo No, they're quote tweeting a tweet that's mocking it for not being nice. So they're saying it is nice. You can't just ignore what was being said before that 🤣
@railroadwrath@fleurqts Basicamente lo que han hecho los argentinos con la invasión de Los Falklands. Y verdaderamente tengo simpatía, no debería haber sido tantas muertes, y nunca quiero que haya la muerte. Pero fue la culpa de la dictadura que tuvisteis.
Es casi la única que el RU no es el malo
@__paradisev@fleurvantess poblaciones implantadas, has dado cuenta del hecho de que describa Argentina también. Vamos a volver Argentina a la población indígena o no?
@__paradisev@fleurvantess Nadie *fue* nativa, porque no había nadie allí. Invadimos a los pinguïnos o qué? Pero seguro que la gente de hoy es nativa. Y los nativos escogen ser británicos.
Una población de argentinos habría sido 'implantada' por tu lógica. No había nadie allí.
Y si quieres hablar sobre...
@ScouseJayne@PeersJulie45689@PunishedRWR Unfortunately I'm numerically and economically literate... if you don't want to address the facts, you're just ignorant.