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v1als: A quick note based on my post-Brexit experience in the UK – in the time period after the election, your biggest threat will not be Trump and his government. It will be your newly validated bigot neighbours. After Brexit, hate crime shot up by 60% in the UK nearly overnight and it still hasn’t …
nokiabae: Trump and Brexit happening in the same year cementing the international rise of the far-right
thespiritofcliffhangers: just-shower-thoughts: It’s like England had three sons, America rebelled as a teen and started a band that saw great success, Canada was the good kid that became a doctor, and Australia was the problem child with a drug problem that moved away and ended up in rehab but has now turned his life around. …
eddiemacads: your mood when you’re having a good day but then somebody decides leaving the European Union would be a good idea
milkuroi: the tables have turned Source: appei
swordshapedleaves: Being an American today is like watching your house slowly catch on fire and not being able to do anything about it and freaking out, when suddenly you hear a “BOOM!” behind you and it’s Britain, their house just exploded and is REALLY on fire and you, helpless, just wave hello from across the …
generalgingersnaps: stardestroying: so, like Damn it. Source: stardestroying
From a south american point of view it seems like the referendum was only ‘for show’ and no one actually took it seriously? Like politicians thought ”yeah let’s do a referendum nothing will actually happen” and it backfired so badly. I can’t believe the Brexit campaigners are retracting from their own promises two days after the results like they were actually hoping to lose, wth?
stirringwinds: 1. That’s in part true. David Cameron promised a referendum to quiet other Eurosceptic Tories and to peel off support from ppl who might have gone for the UKIP. He gambled that it would be a no-brainer that Remain would win, that the question would be settled for a generation and that he could …