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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I learned early on as a child that you might as well participate in the fucking around because you're just gonna get lumped in with the rest of them when the finding out happens.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

I feel like I didn't fuck around enough to help...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Oh really .

[–] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If Nato fails and Russia attacks, I'm not going to fight. All those xenophobic extremists nationalists in my country that fell for the Russian propaganda can clean up their own mess they caused.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

If Nato fails and Russia attacks

That already happened back in 2022 (arguably all the way back to '08). NATO didn't do shit because it's just the US military wearing a dozen different European baseball caps. And after the US finished scrubbing out of both Iraq and Afghanistan, it didn't have the logistics to launch another Asiatic land war (while keeping China at gunpoint in the Pacific and Iran in check in the Middle East).

American slippage is already apparent across Latin America, Africa, and the South Pacific. Things are only going to get worse for DC going forward.

You would have to be suicidal to stick your neck into that mess, at this stage of the game.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago

Ha ha

Too bad

It's been chosen to fuck around and find out on behalf of our entire society

The innocent, the guilty, doesn't matter. We're all going to find out.

I hope everyone involved in bringing this down on us is happy with themselves. I'm sure most of them will be fine, of course.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

Sometimes we all just have to find out, if there's to be any chance of getting them to stop fucking around. 😐

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also there's no opting out if you didn't fucking vote. You can't be complicit in opting out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

With the electoral college and FPTP, even opting in is of dubious benefit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

You should still do it obviously, but it is a rigged system.

[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unfortunately the world often does the fucking around part for you, and you're stuck finding out with them. Sincerely a Remainer being forced to find out on Brexit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Boy, what a reversal we have now. Around when Brexit finally happened, the US kicked Trump out of office. It felt like we were going in the right direction and the UK wasn't. Now the UK has put Labour back in power while we're going all-in on fascism. Fuck. We should have just stuck with the monarchy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Don't worry - I'm sure in a few years time when our next election comes up, our population will have forgotten about the previous decade of getting fucked by the Tories, and immediately put them, Reform-UK, or some other alt-right party into power for round 2 just like you guys

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Probably. The apple doesn't seem to have fallen far from the tree.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Instructions unclear, now the US is installing a new monarchy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago

No, not like that!

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Finding out is universal, fucking around is optional.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (6 children)

My only British friend is apolitical (and a bit of a dumbass, if I'm being honest). What's brexit like for your average Brit? I can't imagine having the right to just move (almost) anywhere in Europe and getting that ripped away from me, but I'll admit, I don't really know any of the other repercussions of leaving the EU.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

To borrow @[email protected] words, an economic disaster. The price of basically everything skyrocketed overnight, even basic essentials, which pushed swathes of people below the poverty line, and even today is putting increasing pressure in foodbanks. The effects of the Tories' complete mismanagement of Brexit, the Covid19 pandemic, and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine only served to compound the damage.

This cumulative Brexit damage and mismanagement is what finally got the Tories kicked out (which they should've been years ago if you ask me) - and while the economic effects have slowed down somewhat recently, prices are still going up substantially, and I think we're gonna be feeling it a while longer.

It annoys me to no end that we knew this would happen, economists literally predicted this economic shitshow during the referendum and +50% of our population decided to just put their fingers in the ears and shout racist rhetoric instead.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It totally ruined a lot of people's lives. They had plans to go work somewhere in Europe maybe even live there. Now they can't do that.

The whole point of the European Union was it was supposed to be a bit like the United States without having to actually form a single nation. All of the countries would effectively act like States in one nation - they even setup Interpol to act like state troopers. Imagine if you suddenly couldn't move between states. Utterly stupid outcome, and 100% predicted.

Just like any government the EU council did do some brain dead things, but that wasn't a good reason to leave.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Imagine if you suddenly couldn't move between states.

This has already become reality for all the women I know that are pregnant or trying to become pregnant.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

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