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It's ironic. Colonized the world then ****ed themselves based on the idiotic fear brown people were about to return the favor.
So when English people travel will they now pretend to be Scottish like Americans pretend to be Canadian?
One side - supported by the EU, British prime minister David Cameron, President Obama, and most economists - warned that leaving the EU would be a very bad idea, and would have severe economic consequences not just for England, but also the world.
The other side - supported by the xenophobic anti-immigration right wing of the UK and a certain Donald Trump - believed the UK's sovereignty was at stake, that brown people and Islam was taking over and that the UK could not longer control either its borders or its economy.
So the UK's right wing did what today's right wings throughout the world seem to love to do: burn it all down so we can be in charge and everything will magically all better. As a result, the world's markets are in free fall (I'm in too much of a hurry to find links - it's all over the news - JFGI) and the EU is now telling the UK to leave "as soon as possible". The British Pound has fallen more in one day than it did during the worst day of the Great Recession, more - according to reports on the BBC - than it ever did in living memory. There is a very real danger that the Brexit will cause a recession in the world's major economies, including America (remember, the EU is our largest trading partner). What's more, Scotland - which almost left the UK a couple years ago - voted strongly to remain in the EU...and as a result, if I were a betting man, I'd bet heavily that within three years, Scotland will be its own nation and will join the EU...if the EU still exists. But the right wing thinks the Brexit was somehow a great thing.
But this is all the right wing way - "burn it all down!" Look at our own right wing: they want to get rid not just of Obamacare, not just most of our social safety net, but also several of our government agencies that have helped to make all Americans' lives better. "Burn it all down!" with no real plan on what to do with the pile of ashes that what's left of the economy or the national infrastructure that took lifetimes to build.
Look at what the UK's right wing is doing not just to their own economy, but to the world's economy. This is the kind of thing that will happen if we let America's right wing get its way.
So it's a bad thing if your country leaves a group that is assuming more and more of their members sovereignty as time goes on? That's stupid.
Oi.
This comment perfectly explains why Brexit has left the UK's young feeling so devastated - Vox
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A quick note on the first three tragedies. Firstly, it was the working classes who voted for us to leave because they were economically disregarded, and it is they who will suffer the most in the short term. They have merely swapped one distant and unreachable elite for another.
Secondly, the younger generation has lost the right to live and work in 27 other countries. We will never know the full extent of the lost opportunities, friendships, marriages and experiences we will be denied. Freedom of movement was taken away by our parents, uncles, and grandparents in a parting blow to a generation that was already drowning in the debts of our predecessors.
Thirdly and perhaps most significantly, we now live in a post-factual democracy. When the facts met the myths they were as useless as bullets bouncing off the bodies of aliens in a HG Wells novel. When Michael Gove said, ‘The British people are sick of experts,’ he was right. But can anybody tell me the last time a prevailing culture of anti-intellectualism has led to anything other than bigotry?"
A comment I read on another board.
One side - supported by the EU, British prime minister David Cameron, President Obama, and most economists - warned that leaving the EU would be a very bad idea, and would have severe economic consequences not just for England, but also the world.
The other side - supported by the xenophobic anti-immigration right wing of the UK and a certain Donald Trump - believed the UK's sovereignty was at stake, that brown people and Islam was taking over and that the UK could not longer control either its borders or its economy.
So the UK's right wing did what today's right wings throughout the world seem to love to do: burn it all down so we can be in charge and everything will magically all better. As a result, the world's markets are in free fall (I'm in too much of a hurry to find links - it's all over the news - JFGI) and the EU is now telling the UK to leave "as soon as possible". The British Pound has fallen more in one day than it did during the worst day of the Great Recession, more - according to reports on the BBC - than it ever did in living memory. There is a very real danger that the Brexit will cause a recession in the world's major economies, including America (remember, the EU is our largest trading partner). What's more, Scotland - which almost left the UK a couple years ago - voted strongly to remain in the EU...and as a result, if I were a betting man, I'd bet heavily that within three years, Scotland will be its own nation and will join the EU...if the EU still exists. But the right wing thinks the Brexit was somehow a great thing.
But this is all the right wing way - "burn it all down!" Look at our own right wing: they want to get rid not just of Obamacare, not just most of our social safety net, but also several of our government agencies that have helped to make all Americans' lives better. "Burn it all down!" with no real plan on what to do with the pile of ashes that what's left of the economy or the national infrastructure that took lifetimes to build.
Look at what the UK's right wing is doing not just to their own economy, but to the world's economy. This is the kind of thing that will happen if we let America's right wing get its way.
Lot's of Lefty poutrage over this, I see. Must have been a good move by Britain then.
:roll:
Or, a free people rejected the loss of freedom, along with the intellectually vacant insults and rhetoric, and determined the better future for their country was based on the ability to welcome all who share their common goals.
:roll:
Or, a free people rejected the loss of freedom, along with the intellectually vacant insults and rhetoric, and determined the better future for their country was based on the ability to welcome all who share their common goals.
An incoherent diatribe from the Left. Looks like a full scale meltdown.
One side - supported by the EU, British prime minister David Cameron, President Obama, and most economists - warned that leaving the EU would be a very bad idea, and would have severe economic consequences not just for England, but also the world.
The other side - supported by the xenophobic anti-immigration right wing of the UK and a certain Donald Trump - believed the UK's sovereignty was at stake, that brown people and Islam was taking over and that the UK could not longer control either its borders or its economy.
So the UK's right wing did what today's right wings throughout the world seem to love to do: burn it all down so we can be in charge and everything will magically all better. As a result, the world's markets are in free fall (I'm in too much of a hurry to find links - it's all over the news - JFGI) and the EU is now telling the UK to leave "as soon as possible". The British Pound has fallen more in one day than it did during the worst day of the Great Recession, more - according to reports on the BBC - than it ever did in living memory. There is a very real danger that the Brexit will cause a recession in the world's major economies, including America (remember, the EU is our largest trading partner). What's more, Scotland - which almost left the UK a couple years ago - voted strongly to remain in the EU...and as a result, if I were a betting man, I'd bet heavily that within three years, Scotland will be its own nation and will join the EU...if the EU still exists. But the right wing thinks the Brexit was somehow a great thing.
But this is all the right wing way - "burn it all down!" Look at our own right wing: they want to get rid not just of Obamacare, not just most of our social safety net, but also several of our government agencies that have helped to make all Americans' lives better. "Burn it all down!" with no real plan on what to do with the pile of ashes that what's left of the economy or the national infrastructure that took lifetimes to build.
Look at what the UK's right wing is doing not just to their own economy, but to the world's economy. This is the kind of thing that will happen if we let America's right wing get its way.
Obama laughed in the face of the public about Russia, North Korea, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Brazil+Germany (when caught spying)....and countless others.
Very wise of a nation to do the opposite of that idiot.
They were ALREADY free, and more so than they are today as a direct result of the Brexit! It was only a right-wing talking point there that they somehow were less free. As someone's already pointed out, the people of the UK have suddenly lost the right to live and work in the other twenty-seven countries in the EU. They were NOT suffering under some kind of tyranny...they were already free.
But just like I pointed out, because it wasn't something that the right wing liked, "burn it all down!"
They were ALREADY free, and more so than they are today as a direct result of the Brexit! It was only a right-wing talking point there that they somehow were less free. As someone's already pointed out, the people of the UK have suddenly lost the right to live and work in the other twenty-seven countries in the EU. They were NOT suffering under some kind of tyranny...they were already free.
But just like I pointed out, because it wasn't something that the right wing liked, "burn it all down!"
Really? Where/when did he do that? Please be very specific.
They were ALREADY free, and more so than they are today as a direct result of the Brexit! It was only a right-wing talking point there that they somehow were less free. As someone's already pointed out, the people of the UK have suddenly lost the right to live and work in the other twenty-seven countries in the EU. They were NOT suffering under some kind of tyranny...they were already free.
But just like I pointed out, because it wasn't something that the right wing liked, "burn it all down!"
A comment I read on another board.
Lot's of Lefty poutrage over this, I see. Must have been a good move by Britain then.
But don't you know they got freedom of movement with membership.
You know ignoring that the only reason they don't have freedom of movement when they're not a member is because of the members of that same group. :lol:
Obama laughed in the face of the public about Russia, North Korea, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Brazil+Germany (when caught spying)....and countless others.
Very wise of a nation to do the opposite of that idiot.
And what's happening to the world's markets right now? And to your own 401K if you've got one?
Yep! You're another adherent of the "burn it all down" philosophy of the right! Who the heck cares what happens, as long as you get to burn it all down!
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