• lornosaj@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Slightly triggered for the use of such diagram when imho a simple bar chart would do the trick.

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    I’d really like to hear a valid argument from those who were too young to vote during the referendum and now want to stay out. I’d also like to ask them if they believe the Scots and Northern-Irish are free to leave the UK if they wanted to. Not that i expect i’ll hear something new when i ask them, I just really want to see if there is someone in that group that actually believes the things they’d say.

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      They probably lack the capacity for that kind of introspection to develop a position. They just repeat what other people tell them and then believe it because there’s a sort of logic to it. Testing something for veracity once it’s past the coherence test is beyond a lot of people. Lots don’t even make it that far. Conservatives have an entirely different system for evaluating things, it starts and ends with what the man says it is.

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    This will happen for us as well in Canada, we have a bunch of plebs in Alberta wanting to separate. They have no idea or are blind to the perils that will be unleashed.

    They are selfish twats that need to be ostracized and some harsh realities befal them in order to quash this foolishness.

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      11 hours ago

      How any canadian can look at america and say “yeah that grass looks a lot greener” is beyond me. Meanwhile I’m expecting canada to build a wall to keep us american refugees out.

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        It’s because attention is for sell and nobody talks to each other anymore so it’s really easy for billionaires to buy the political opinions they want.

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      17 hours ago

      More of those voting leave died than those who voted stay. Wanting to leave EU is bad for your health.

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      Of voters who died since 2016, disproportionately many voted leave, as that vote skewed older. They have, of course, been replaced by young voters, though those were 6-17 during the referendum, and overwhelmingly don’t have a historic grudge against the “vino-drinking garlic-eaters” or whatever, but if anything resent having fewer opportunities ahead of them. And while a few remain voters have switched sides (presumably out of what’s-done-is-done resignation/fear of further instability rather than a faith in Britain’s glorious destiny), they’re greatly outnumbered by leavers who would like to take their choice back.

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        a few remain voters have switched sides

        I once met a left brexiteer who said, he voted Remain but now he sees that all the conservative politicians are voted out of their office because they can’t blame the EU anymore. So that’s a possible position as well.

        For context: This is a few years ago so he might have changed his opinion by now. Also, he lives in continental Europe (like me) so he’s less effected by the Brexit.

        • Klear@piefed.world
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          For me some silver lining to Brexit was that majority of anti-EU voices straight up shut up for a ling while when they saw what a clusterfuck it wad. Kinda similar.

    • thesdev@feddit.orgOP
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      15 hours ago

      You must’ve missed the graph below the headline that shows why it’s newsworthy.