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[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@fancy_disgrace @edfsf59832 @defectator @boomhotdog2 Significantly lower than the turnout for the independence referendum that followed it, which has the ~80% turnout of every general election of that era, the 59% turnout of 56 was 15 to 20% pts lower than any of these.

[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@fancy_disgrace @edfsf59832 @defectator @boomhotdog2 Malta usually has the highest voter turnouts in the world for a non-compulsory nation. The turnout/vote was swayed by the false promise that the UK would rebuild Malta if they voted to be a part of it, and almost half of the population boycotted it.

[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@fancy_disgrace @edfsf59832 @defectator @boomhotdog2 For further reading on the near exact 50?/50 political split over British influence on the island this is a good start

https://t.co/btLcNmxjr1

[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@fancy_disgrace @edfsf59832 @defectator @boomhotdog2 False. The referendum was widely boycotted and never seen as legitimate. It was only a way to get the British to honour their commitment of restoring Malta after the damage of WW2. They never did and the Maltese people requested independence immediately after.

[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@rconde123 @LadyDemosthenes Is it though? As a European it seems like a huge portion of your most popular art and culture internationally is in genres pioneered by Black Americans. It seems like they are under represented politically compared to their cultural impact.

[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@RNDTHOT @ShamashAran @LadyDemosthenes Maybe more intuitively: If you have a fake coin that lands on heads 20% of the time, and you flip it 40 times you would expect to get heads 8 times.

[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@RNDTHOT @ShamashAran @LadyDemosthenes If for simplicity we say the chance was 0% in 1868 and 42% today, and assumed a linear shift over that time, then the average chance is 21%, and over 39 elections statistically US on average should be on the 8th non-white US president.

[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@devusnullus @mirrorreversed You were in the racist white parts of Italy, of course it was boring. That's like going to a white part of the US and expecting to find something of value.

[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@P_K_Pearl @Empireaesth You were still funding and arming the Nazis when the UK did turned the tide of WW2.

[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@HalfTangible What if they're the same person.

[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@GunnerTas UK is a happier place than the US. Unfortunately it is also somewhat Reddit.

[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@RachelleEhzcwb @Awright874 @LadyDemosthenes Romani are one group. Irish Travellers also use the term gypsies but are not Romani.

[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@ShamashAran @LadyDemosthenes If that were true why has every US president except 1 been a white man. All except 3 were protestants.

[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@noncrediblepeer @LadyDemosthenes That is exactly what you're doing by denying the deep systematic racism that is clearly still not a solved problem in US politics compared to elsewhere. Why has every US president except 1 been a white man? Why can't you elect Native Americans?

[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@devusnullus @arctotherium42 Theres no single British accent. The West Midlands Black Country accent is more certainly the closest accent in the world to old English pronunciations though.

[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@arctotherium42 For reference my PFP is Engels, who spent a big portion of his younger life in Salford, UK, and met Marx there, their theories were built partly on British trade unionism and inspired by the plight of the British working class and their response.

[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@arctotherium42 Actually correcting myself, saying the UK went more European is wrong, the use of socialist theory to fix the deep issues with laissez faire capitalism originates from Manchester, the UK just abandoned this in the 80s and that's why we consider that more European now.

[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@YarilFoxEren @unionpaneurope @arctotherium42 Neoliberalism. Thatcher, Reagan, Hawke, etc, deregulated the markets, sold off public assets, normalised housing speculation, outsourced everything to China. That's why the whole Anglosphere lost its industry, ruined their housing markets, public services and economic stability.

[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@mendo5an @arctotherium42 From 1890 to 1970 yes, from 1980s to now, very much no, UK sold off and privatised almost everything and deregulated all the markets under Thatcher, riding the same Neoliberal wave as Reagan. It became an even more extreme version of the US in terms of economics.

[Dave @Chipzilla2k4]

@Bob_Somebody021 @arctotherium42 It's about making a better version of itself. Engels grew up in Manchester/Salford. Marx and Engels were partly inspired by British trade unionism and the worsening conditions under the dawn of the industrial revolution. Communism is as British as Capitalism.