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Published: 2016-06-24 18:18:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 78529; Favourites: 1540; Downloads: 592
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Actual quotes from "Leave" voters after the results were announced:"My vote – I didn’t think was going to matter too much because I thought we were just going to remain."
"I was very disappointed about the result, even though I voted to leave, this morning I woke up and the reality did actually hit me."
“Urm I think I kinda regret my vote, I had no real reason to pick what I did!!”
F**king HALFWITS!!!
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The valley was superbly illuminated and of the freshest green; all that spoilt it were a number of halfwits, as always, and a new civilisation which is highly inappropriate in his beautiful region.
But i think, we have the same situation everywhere around the world ... meanwhile
Thanks for your great hamster pics ...
Das Tal war herrlich beleuchtet und vom frischesten Grün; nur durch eine Menge Trotteln, wie immer, und durch eine neue, in dieser schönen Gegend höchst unpassenden Zivilisation verunstaltet.
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I think you mean elitist, in this term, he is an elitist.
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..i'm confused, how exactly is he being racist with this post?
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i think the last 3 years is evidence enough about the eu
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And if Scotland had actually VOTED FOR INDEPENDENCE, it wouldn't have been an issue.
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Jack, I respect you and I'm a part of the "Remain" camp, too, but there were people out there who had understandable reasons to vote Leave, and you can't say that they were mostly racist or ill-informed.
I feel like this Jon Pie video conveys it best: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEaEBm…
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Wow. A civil remainer. I'm sorry, but you're actually the first one I've seen. (Maybe just my bad luck.)
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And so the first person who responded to this has—instead of replying with something like a constructive argument—decided to strawman, shame and block me. Well, Hoshiko, if you're still around, allow me to give you my two cents:
I said outright that I was part of the "Remain" camp. I personally and strongly believe, as I have believed since before the original referendum even happened, that staying in the EU and using that oppurtunity to find other methods to solve what issues we have would have been the best choice. I'm just trying to explain that I do not think the oversimplification that "all Leave voters are thick" is rational since, beyond them making up half the fucking country, it was in some cases literally just a difference of opinion. Both camps had understandable arguments. And...did you even watch the video?
Yes, I am aware of the xenophobic behaviors of some Brexiteers. I am also aware of the poorly-informed Brexiteers that were quoted above, too. Always have. But to say that Leave voters only fit into these two boxes is a sensationalist answer, and it prevents us from properly considering alternate viewpoints.
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To be honest if the halfwits who did vote even had a clue, they would have voted remain and we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
Also if you're getting defensive, it seems you personally have some guilt and are looking for any reason to support your moronic, immoral decision.
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And then later on November 8, 2016, Donald Trump won the 2016 US presidential election.
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Hoshiko, did you just block me? Kind of an idiot move tbh.
Oh btw yes I have read them. Those are only a few. Not all voters think exactly alike you know.
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So we're halfwits for having our own opinions and making our own choices? Okay...
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I think you didn't even look at the comments those voters had...
Sure isn't a good look.
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I'd restate it but it went over your head the first time.
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The results of the 'eh, I wanna make a point rather than ask for what I want' attitude becoming a common problem.
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EU was a great idea till someone decided to make a law for it. Well that ... was my goverment ->best regards for hang them high if you want. The laws wasen't made to run fine, cause that wasen't the main intention. The deal was to redirect guilty and ruining everyones social and economic system. Why should also Germany be interested in ruining ther own economy? Ouh that's quite easy - if you get elected be big companys and not by people, you may care mor for the first group rather than the second. And in a ruinded economy, the people fear to ask for a fair pay. We have all good laws sold out to those countrys who actually not be able to copy them, and all we find in EU was the smalles amount of stabilising rules per country shared with all. England first thought this EU-thingy was a institution for stability and proud and all this retard romantic bull*hit that makes real politicans laught that hard.
Old grumpy ppl had to made this usefull voting(for the wrong reasons - they just want to bombard somone for ther own problems ... again) and the young ppl try to find the voting-App for free traveling and shopping tours. Well ... Britain hadn't been able to save EU, cause my goverment has looted it enough, it can burn down and they wouldn't care. All countrys have selected ther guilty one for the EU to fail - and every single of this reasons is more brainf*cked than the next.
So completley different parts of the society have made this weird voting that amazing weird. Two times xDDD Both for the wrong reasons, but this perfectly shows the split soul of England as well as the shattered of EU. TTIP had made it perfect and had start the real wars on european ground. Oh, btw. ... the laws to ruin Europe was in huge parts designed by the Atlantic Foundation 
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Scotland: We want independence from the U.K. in order to be under the rule of the E.U.
Me: Makes perfect sense to me!
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The 'rule' of the EU... last I checked, we didn't need to ask the EU for permission to vote on leaving, but that's exactly what we have to do with the UK.
That's the problem with this facile argument: not all political unions are the same.
We'd have had far more political power over our own affairs had we left the UK and stayed in the EU than what will now be the case (VAT, defence, constitutional changes, minimum wage...), especially as Westminster are intending to reserve those powers they regain from the EU -- meaning they get even more power and we're no better off, given we're losing our farming, renewable energy, education and minority language grants into the bargain.
That's even before we get into being promised federalism/full fiscal autonomy/home rule if we stayed. What did we actually get? Control over income tax and road signage, and we had to fight for the former!
Then there's voting power: the House of Commons has 650 seats, of which Scotland gets 59 and England 533. In the EU Parliament, there are 750 seats, of which the largest portion goes to Germany... at 99. The UK gets 72, drawing with France and Italy for second greatest number of seats. Oh, how I weep for such an unfair situation for the poor UK... *eye roll*
EDIT: Also, look at that graphic. We're being pulled out when we emphatically voted to stay, so I want to hear no more whining about the 'authoritarian' EU.
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I respect your opinion that’s fine. However, what I want to point out is the irony of the Scots who want independence from the UK yet want to be part of a undemocratic European Union who would control every aspects of your lives instead of just being your own sovereign nation.
However I don’t see the prospect of Scotland seeking independence as Nicole Sturgeon’s went down parliamentary seats in this year’s election. Though I could be wrong, since politics seem to go back and forth these days.
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That's the thing though, the EU don't have anywhere near that level of power; they control a few things, sure, but members countries still retain almost all of their autonomy.
In a way, you're right; being in the EU is less democratic than being out of it, but in terms of what powers we give away, we'd be doing much the same stuff on our own, and membership's great for us economically, particularly given our population growth is negative; we need few barriers to immigration or we won't have a workforce. Doesn't matter what other arguments you make here, if our economy collapses due to labour shortages, we're fucked.
The SNP lost seats, it's true, but having won 56 out of 59 seats in the previous term, they were always going to, even before the unionist parties banded together oust them the following term (seriously, then Scottish Labour leader, Kezia Dugdale, told Labour voters to support the Lib Dems and Tories if it would get the SNP out). The SNP still won 35 seats though, and the second largest party in Scotland are the Tories, with only 13 seats there, which makes GE2017 the third election in a row the SNP have won with a second referendum in their manifesto... that said I couldn't believe Yes didn't win last time, so once bitten, twice shy.
All in all, our current political situation has me pulling my hair out and ranting at strangers (evidently).
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Alright far enough have fun with your independence, St. George Crosses with a green background look better anyway. Though I suggest doing independence soon, as the EU doesn’t look like it’s going to last much longer in the near future, etc.
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Yeah... only have to convince people to vote for it this time...
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So, if you were in the US, you would have voted for Trump?
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Half of our own nation voted for him, so I would say no.
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Goddamn, Britain themselves voted to leave?
Hey, 1000th comment!
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i think the brexes is a good idea.
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Yes but at least the majority still had some common sense
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and hopefully in time the rest will learn why national sovereignty is better then imperial enslavement.
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ironic tho given the brits once did there own imperial enslavement XD
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Yes but all empires fall, because they always overextend their resources in the end. For Brittain it was when they went into world war one, a fatal mistake.
What we need is nation-states, that are sovereign and only trade with others without trying to dominate them.
If Britain had only looked out for Britain they would never have joined that war, but they feared losing influence on the continent to Germany, influence they should never have had to begin with, and because of that what could have been called "The Balkan war of 1914" or at worst "The second Franco-Prussisian war" turned into "The Great War"
That is what empires always ends up doing. They claim they want peace, where in truth they desire only submission, and they always meet an external force that refuses to submit.
I really hope that the American empire can just die quietly, that history wont repeat once again, because I don't know how we can survive a third world war with the weapons we have today.
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onistly this shit show is preferable over the US pulling back it's influance given we got given we got a comunist dictatorship to fill the resalting void, we allread seeing trial runs of it
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